Faria de Bastos, Lopes & Associados – Sociedade de Advogados, RL (FBL Advogados) is an Angolan leading law firm incorporated in 2004, as a result of an M&A involving 3 (three) recognized Angolan law firms. Currently FBL is one of the most experienced, recommended and largest Angolan law firms. FBL provides legal services to its clients in an independent, rigorous and prompt manner, repudiating any political, economic, religious or other kind of bias, promoting a personal relationship with its clients in order to provide them global counseling and innovative legal solutions, and taking a multidisciplinary approach to the Client’s business. FBL works in partnership and collaboration with African, Asian, European and American law firms, being also a proud member of Lex Africa Alliance, a legal network of leading law firms in over 20 (twenty) African countries. The main Practice Areas are the following ones: Financial and Banking Law, Natural Resources Law, Corporate Law, Real Estate, Private Investment, Tax, Litigation, Criminal Law, Labour Law and Public Law. The firm is ranked by the leading legal directories, being ranked as Band 1 by Chambers & Partners in the category of General Business Law, as well by The Legal 500 – EMEA and by IFLR1000 for Finance, Corporate Law and M&A.