JLA Advogados e Consultores (JLA) is a Timorese law firm composed of lawyers and legal, management and social development consultants.The firm was incorporated on 25 September 2014 and, despite its recent establishment in Timor-Leste, it already has a highly positive reputation and develops professional relationships with international institutions of similar prestige who are market leaders in their respective areas of legal expertise. In fact, JLA’s positive reputation is the outcome of the high standard of legal assistance that it has been providing to unique legal programmes and projects in Timor-Leste, which have aided the legislative, institutional, investment, economic and commercial development of the country. Some examples of these legal services include the legal assistance provided in the preparation, decision and implementation of the Special Administrative Region of Oé-Cusse Ambeno (RAEOA), in the regulation of the Consultancy Committee for the Petroleum Fund, and in the elaboration of drafts for the arbitration law and for the securities for bank loans’ law.Av Presidente Nicolau LobatoTimor PlazaCBD 3, 2nd Floor, 202DiliTimor-LesteTel: +670 77720101