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António Lobo Vilela
Lobo Vilela Advogado • 大律師 • Lawyer · Macau
Lobo Vilela Advogado • 大律師 • Lawyer
Gaming · Macau
Antonio Lobo Vilela (温令韜) is a lawyer qualified to practice in Macau (where he is based), Portugal, and Brazil. His practice is almost entirely focused on gaming law.
He was a senior legal adviser to the Commission of the first public tender to grant casino gaming concessions in Macau (2001-2002) and to the Macau Gaming Commission, a consultative body of, and presided over by, the Macau Chief Executive (2003-2009), dealing with the Hong Kong IPO projects of the Macau gaming operators, the financing projects, and the drafting of strategic papers on Macau gaming. He was also charged with (co)drafting the legal and regulatory framework for casino gaming, which is still in force, and the casino gaming concession and sub-concession contracts. He was a partner and founding member of LVT Lawyers, a boutique law firm focused on gaming law (2010-2015), and a legal adviser to the Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macau government on gaming and gaming-related matters, as well as a member of the legislative affairs working group of the Macau Gaming Commission (2016-2020).
He was an extern at the Nevada Gaming Control Board (USA) (2021) and has been a member of the Gaming Law Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association (Federal District, Brasilia) since 2021 and of the Special Committee on Sports, Lotteries, and Entertainment Law of the Brazilian Bar Association (Rio de Janeiro) since 2022. He currently lectures Gaming Law at the University of Macau’s Faculty of Business Administration.
Lobo Vilela has published several articles and papers on gaming law issues and is the author of ‘Macau Gaming Law – Annotated with Comments,’ a four-volume book on Macau (casino) gaming law (www.macaugaminglaw.com). He is a regular speaker on events related to gaming.
He holds a Law Degree with honors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Master’s Degree/LL.M in Gaming Law & Regulation from the William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV - University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He is ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific 2015 (General Business Law), Global 2015 (General Business Law), Asia Pacific 2016 (General Business Law and Gaming and Gambling), and received from Global Awards the Gaming Lawyer of the Year 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 awards.
He was a senior legal adviser to the Commission of the first public tender to grant casino gaming concessions in Macau (2001-2002) and to the Macau Gaming Commission, a consultative body of, and presided over by, the Macau Chief Executive (2003-2009), dealing with the Hong Kong IPO projects of the Macau gaming operators, the financing projects, and the drafting of strategic papers on Macau gaming. He was also charged with (co)drafting the legal and regulatory framework for casino gaming, which is still in force, and the casino gaming concession and sub-concession contracts. He was a partner and founding member of LVT Lawyers, a boutique law firm focused on gaming law (2010-2015), and a legal adviser to the Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macau government on gaming and gaming-related matters, as well as a member of the legislative affairs working group of the Macau Gaming Commission (2016-2020).
He was an extern at the Nevada Gaming Control Board (USA) (2021) and has been a member of the Gaming Law Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association (Federal District, Brasilia) since 2021 and of the Special Committee on Sports, Lotteries, and Entertainment Law of the Brazilian Bar Association (Rio de Janeiro) since 2022. He currently lectures Gaming Law at the University of Macau’s Faculty of Business Administration.
Lobo Vilela has published several articles and papers on gaming law issues and is the author of ‘Macau Gaming Law – Annotated with Comments,’ a four-volume book on Macau (casino) gaming law (www.macaugaminglaw.com). He is a regular speaker on events related to gaming.
He holds a Law Degree with honors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Master’s Degree/LL.M in Gaming Law & Regulation from the William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV - University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
He is ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific 2015 (General Business Law), Global 2015 (General Business Law), Asia Pacific 2016 (General Business Law and Gaming and Gambling), and received from Global Awards the Gaming Lawyer of the Year 2019-2020, 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 awards.
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