Rui Pinto Duarte

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Rui Pinto Duarte is a Counsel in the Litigation and Arbitration and Commercial and Corporate practice areas. He is a lawyer with a vast experience in the areas of corporate law, banking contracts, distribution agreements and rights in rem, also being one of the most renowned Portuguese arbitrators, having intervened in several arbitration proceedings, primarily in the position of president arbitrator. He is one of the founders of the Portuguese Arbitration Association. Rui Pinto Duarte has held teaching positions at several Universities, and is currently a full professor at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He is the author of several works and of a large number of articles on different legal topics, namely in the areas of Contract Law, Corporate Law, Property Law and Banking Law. He has collaborated in the orientation of several legal magazines.

Professional Memberships

Portuguese Bar Association

Personal

Law Degree, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon (1977); Master's Degree in Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon (1981); PhD in Private Law, Faculty of Law, Lisbon Nova University (1999).