Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais (born 28 October 1967 in Fribourg)[1] is a Swiss-Angolan entrepreneur[2] who has founded and led several businesses over the course of his career.

[16] From 2012, Quantum Global together with Plaza, a joint venture with JLL subsidiary LaSalle, purchased office properties on Savile Row,[17] Fifth Avenue[18] and in Munich.

Fábrica de Sabão, a former soap factory, was converted into a hybrid incubator, co-working space, maker-space, and accelerator hub.

Fábrica de Sabão was built as an inclusive model to enable marginalized communities to participate in sustainable enterprise such as urban manufacturing.

[35] The IPA held an annual competition honoring African entrepreneurs and innovators[36] through investment[37] in their ecosystems[38] and business development.

With ALL Bastos implemented his idea of an online portal offering access to a wide range of legal documents as well as law and governance texts from African countries.

In March 2015 over 4,500 regional and national court cases, 3,600 legislative acts and 8,000 secondary sources from eight African countries were published online.

He sponsored a research project at the Center of Neuroscience ZNZ, a collaboration between the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH.

[52] He also served on the advisory board of the Event Letterari Monte Verita Festival, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) and the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business.

[53] In 2017 the conviction played a major role in public discussions of his business activities which were uncovered by journalists in the Paradise Papers.

[54][55][56] According to the London High Court of Justice, the applicants of a freezing order against Bastos made an "unfortunate misrepresentation" in their description of the Swiss conviction.

[64] After the Paradise Papers were leaked[65] licenses of seven funds of Bastos' Quantum Global were suspended in Mauritius after a visit of Angolan officials.

The High Court's ruling stated that limited partnerships in offshore jurisdictions "are not unusual for private equity investments; that they were known about and not disapproved by Deloitte at the time; that the structure was not a matter of criticism by E&Y in their investigations; and that the drawing down of the full committed amounts into the accounts in the names of the Limited Partnerships so as to put them beyond the control of FSDEA was for a legitimate political objective.

"[70] After the High Court in London had legally confirmed the contracts between Quantum Global and FSDEA, Bastos was taken into pre-trial detention in Angola[71] in the autumn of 2018 on the charge that he had enriched himself with state property.