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Tiago Machado Graça is a Partner in the Lusophone Africa team and a member of CMS Africa Steering Committee.
He has over 20 years of experience advising on domestic and cross-border tax and investment matters involving Portugal and Portuguese-speaking countries with a special focus on Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, and Timor-Leste.
Tiago has been acting as a consultant for large and medium-sized Portuguese and international companies in the above-mentioned countries covering several industries, mainly in the oil & and gas sector, assisting in issues related to international tax, cross-border corporate restructuring, cross-border financing, profit repatriation, inbound and outbound structuring, structuring of local operations, tax compliance and tax litigation.
Based in Lisbon, Tiago also has a wide experience in real estate transactions both from a legal and tax perspective. Tiago is fully focused on African matters and has been deeply involved in the development of the African practice of the firm with a pivotal role between the international clients and the local African correspondent law firms.
Tiago is acknowledged as an Up & Coming for General Business Law: International Firms in Angola by Chambers Global, 2024, and he is recommended for Angola and Mozambique Foreign Firms by Legal 500, 2024. Moreover, he has been recognised for Tax by Best Lawyers for the past years.
Joined CMS Portugal in 2014.
