Lucas Chen is a Jurist at Jorge Neto Valente – Lawyers e Notaries since 2023.
Lucas’s practice focuses primarily on commercial and contentious matter. He assists senior lawyers in all types of instructions on civil, criminal and administrative proceedings. He also provides professional support in non-litigation matters such as contract drafting and review, civil and commercial legal opinions, and notarization.
Prior to joining the firm, Lucas worked for several professional services firms, including one of the largest law firms in Portugal and one of the “Big Four” international accounting firms, where he had extensive exposure to real estate conveyance and project development, due diligence, taxation, and dispute resolution. Thanks to his experience as a judicial interpreter at the Lisbon District Court, Lucas is familiar with translating and drafting various types of legal documents and contracts in both Chinese and Portuguese.
Lucas obtained his law degree at the Lisbon School of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal in 2023 and completed a Post-graduate Diploma in contracts and consumer law at the University of Coimbra in the same year.
Lucas is native in Cantonese and fluent in both oral and written Mandarin, Portuguese, and English.