Email: Agostinho.Miranda@mirandalawfirm.com
Phone: +351 21 781 48 11

Agostinho Pereira de Miranda (born 1948), Chairman and founding partner. Graduate of the Coimbra University Law School (1974). Admitted in 1978.

After obtaining his law degree Agostinho moved back to Angola to teach commercial law and contracts at the Luanda School of Economics. Agostinho has also worked and lived in Lisbon, London, Houston and San Francisco. For approximately 6 years he worked in the U.S. for Gulf Oil Corporation and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc. In both companies he was charged with primary responsibility for the legal aspects of their operations in Angola, Zaire (currently Democratic Republic of Congo), Gabon and Brazil.

Since 1987, Agostinho has been providing legal and tax advice to various national and international companies doing business in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique in the areas of mining, oil and gas, banking, construction, fishing, oil services, etc. In recent years he has also been involved in representing various Fortune 500 companies in mediation and arbitration proceedings held in Portugal, Brazil and several African countries. He has acted as a consultant to The World Bank, USAID, OPIC and other international organisations.

He is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA), the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN) and the International Bar Association (IBA). From 1996 to 2000, he was an officer of IBA’s Committee "O" Executive Committee. For the 1997/1998 period he was an officer of IBA SERL’s Oil Law Committee. He is a non-executive director and member of the compensation committee of various corporations, and he chairs the board of trustees of two non-profit organisations. Agostinho is also a member of the Honorary Advisory Council of the United States-Angola Chamber of Commerce. In 2001 he was appointed to the Executive Committee of the "Angola Education Assistance Fund, Inc.”. Since 2004 he has been a director of the Portugal-Angola Chamber of Commerce.  

Agostinho is the only Portuguese member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL) and the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He is also a founding member and director of the Portuguese Arbitration Association. 

Agostinho attended a post-graduation in Comparative International Law by the Southwestern Legal Foundation, currently The Center for American and International Law, in Dallas, USA.

He has written extensively on Portuguese and Angolan legal matters, having published, among others: "Extra-territorial Implications of FCPA Statutory Rules" (1988); "The US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – The American ideal in the Land of Foreign Trade" (1989); "The Tax Structure of Angolan Petroleum E&P Operations" (1982); "Angolan Mining Law" (1997, co-author). He is a regular contributor to several newspapers, reviews and other publications and is frequently invited to give television, radio and press interviews.

Agostinho was ranked as an Expert in Dispute Resolution in the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 editions of the European Legal Experts Guide.

Agostinho is fluent in English and French.