Mr Filipe Vaz Pinto > Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados Offices
RUA CASTILHO, 165
1070-050 LISBOA
Portugal
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Mr Filipe Vaz Pinto
Work Department
Dispute Resolution.
Position
Partner with the dispute resolution team, with his practice focused on arbitrations connected to Portuguese-speaking countries, including in particular, Angola, Brasil, Mozambique and Portugal.
Acts as counsel in domestic and international arbitrations, and related judicial proceedings in a variety of industry sectors, including aviation, banking, construction, defense, energy, food and beverage, infrastructures, insurance, media and
advertising, mining, public-private partnerships, transfers of technology and telecommunications.
Also acts regularly as Arbitrator in domestic and international cases, ad hoc or under institutional rules.
Board Member of the Portuguese Arbitration Association, of the ICC Arbitration Commission and of the Executive Commission of the Portuguese Committee of the ICC. Former Vice-President of the Commercial Arbitration Center of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Lecturer in postgraduation courses.
Career
Qualified (2004). Partner (2014) and cohead of Morais Leitão’s dispute resolution department and a member of the firm’s board of directors. ilipe Vaz Pinto is a Board Member of the Portuguese Arbitration Association, member of the ICC Arbitration Commission and of the Executive Commission of the Portuguese Committee of ICC. He was Vice President of the Commercial Arbitration Center of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Centro de Arbitragem Comercial da Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Portuguesa).
Languages
Portuguese and English.
Memberships
Portuguese Bar Association (admitted in 2004). Portuguese Arbitration Association.
Education
Law Degree (Law Faculty of Nova University of Lisbon, 2002). PhD Program Law Faculty of Nova University of Lisbon (curricular part, 2004-2006). LL.M. (University of California, Berkeley, 2007).
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Dispute resolution
(Leading individuals)Filipe Vaz Pinto –Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados
The dispute resolution team at Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados offers a high level of expertise across the full range of disputes, with a particular focus on civil, commercial and corporate litigation. Arbitration proceedings at the domestic and international levels also feature on the group’s diverse caseload, which has registered a recent uptick in class actions and private enforcement cases. Francisco Cortez focuses on commercial litigation, while also maintaining an active arbitration practice, and leads the team alongside Filipe Vaz Pinto, who handles international arbitration cases. Sofia Vaz Sampaio oversees one of the two Lisbon-based litigation and arbitration teams within the department, focusing on civil and commercial litigation and arbitration, and Ricardo do Nascimento Ferreira leads the other, specialising in IP and pharmaceutical law.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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- Intellectual property
- Planning law
- Porto: Leading commercial firms
- Public law
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- Tax
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