Mr Filipe Vaz Pinto > Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados > Lisbon, Portugal > Lawyer Profile

Mr Filipe Vaz Pinto

+351 213 826 616 fvpinto@mlgts.pt

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).