Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados

Agostinho has worked and lived in Lisbon, Luanda, London, Houston and San Francisco. For approximately six years he worked in the US for Gulf Oil Corporation and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc, where he was charged with primary responsibility for the legal aspects of their operations in Angola, Zaire (currently Democratic Republic of Congo), Gabon and Brazil. He has also acted as a consultant to the World Bank, USAID, OPIC and other international organisations.

Agostinho has also been involved in representing various Fortune 500 companies in mediation and arbitration proceedings, notably as party-appointed arbitrator in ICC cases, arbitration panels in Portugal, Angola and Mozambique and as counsel in ICC, UNCITRAL and LCIA cases in Brazil, Portugal, United Kingdom and Angola.

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); and Angolan Mining Law (1997, co-author).