Frederico Bettencourt Ferreira > Cuatrecasas > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile
Cuatrecasas Offices
Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo, 6
Lisbon 1050-121
Portugal
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Frederico Bettencourt Ferreira
Position
Partner
Career
Specialist in complex national and international court and arbitration proceedings.
Frederico Bettencourt has handled complex national and international disputes in sectors such as information technology, banking, automotive, construction, energy and aviation.
He has extensive experience in class actions and antitrust private enforcement proceedings over breaches of competition law, privacy rights and consumer rights.
He has participated as a lawyer in ad hoc and institutional arbitration proceedings (ICC, LCIA, CAC/CCIP), mainly involving disputes relating to Portuguese-speaking countries.
In addition to practicing law, he acts as an arbitrator.
He is on the arbitrator list at the Commercial Arbitration Center of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and is a member of the Spanish Spanish and Iberoamerican Arbitration Club.
He was coordinator of the Spanish and Iberoamerican Arbitration Club under 40 section (CEIA-40). He was a consulting attorney at US law firm Arent Fox, LLP (2013-2014) and represented the government of Timor-Leste in several disputes with international oil companies.
He regularly publishes articles about national and international arbitration and speaks at conferences and courses on arbitration in Portugal and abroad.
Lawyer Rankings
Portugal > Dispute resolution
(Next Generation Partners)Providing ‘quality and excellent services’ to clients across the automotive, infrastructure, energy, real estate, telecoms and financial services sectors, Cuatrecasas is well placed to handle private enforcement and class actions – recent areas of growth for the dispute resolution team – alongside domestic and international arbitration cases. With over 20 years’ experience, practice head Miguel De Almada focuses on civil and commercial litigation and arbitration in the finance, construction, energy and TMT sectors. Luís Miguel Cortes Martins
is an experienced arbitrator, while Frederico Bettencourt Ferreira, in addition to his strong credentials in international arbitration, is singled out for his proficiency in out-of-court proceedings. With extensive experience in the banking and finance sector, Maria Raquel Moreira is the name to note for insolvency and restructuring matters. Diana Simão Lourenço focuses on civil and contract-related litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Real estate and construction
- Transport