About YM

YM Translations & Consultancy Limited was established in 2016, in the United Kingdom.

 

Yonesse Matsinhe was born in Mozambique and she is a citizen of the world who has lived in Mozambique, Swaziland (Eswatini), Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, the UK and spent some time in Germany. Within these countries, she has lived in different cities, both for her studies and for work.

 

She obtained her Licenciatura (Bachelor’s degree) in Law by the University of Lisbon, a Master’s in International Economics and Business Law by the University of Groningen and a Master’s in Translation by the London Metropolitan University. She also obtained the University of Cambridge English teaching certificate (CELTA), which enables her to professionally teach English as a foreign language (at schools in the UK and abroad, as well as in corporate settings), both face to face and online.

 

After having worked as a legal advisor at the Dutch Council for Refugees in the Hague, she had the opportunity to work at the most reputable law firms and entities in London (Serious Fraud Office, British Petroleum, Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Slaughter & May, just to name a few), where she was able to utilise her language skills in the various international cases she worked on, as a lawyer/paralegal and as a translator/interpreter. Furthermore, she translated for the University of Pretoria in the context of the African Human Rights Moot Court Competition.  

 

For now, the main working languages are: Portuguese, English, Dutch, Spanish, French and German.