Guilherme Santos Silva
Partner | Lisbon
- Practice Areas
- Litigation and Arbitration
- Corporate and M&A
- Criminal, Sanctions and Compliance
- Restructuring and Insolvency
- Industries
- Technology, Media & Telecommunications
- Aviation, Maritime & Transportation
- Energy & Natural Resources
- Languages
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Contacts
Guilherme Santos Silva is a Partner at Abreu Advogados since 2004, working primarily on matters related to civil, commercial and transportation litigation matters, as well as on domestic and international arbitrations, for more than 28 years.
Guilherme is the co-head of Abreu Advogados’ Litigation & Arbitration practice, working in highly complex international and multi-jurisdictional commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings.
With a vast experience in national and international arbitration and litigation proceedings, he has been representing clients in proceedings linked to multiple jurisdictions, such as, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, China, Switzerland, Angola, Germany, France, Israel, Brazil, BVI and Holland in addition to Portugal.
Guilherme Santos Silva is a listed arbitrator of “Concordia – Centre of Conciliation, Mediation of Conflicts and Arbitration”.
Additionally, he has led several cases related to construction, sale, mortgages, seizures and enforcement of debt on ships and airplanes and provided assistance throughout the respective litigation proceedings.
Guilherme Santos Silva is author of several articles on matters related to his practice, specifically arbitration, litigation and maritime and transportation law, published in national and international publications. He has lately been co-author of the commentated Arbitration Law of Mozambique.
Moreover, Guilherme, who is also the co-head of the Angolan Desk of Abreu Advogados and works often, in the sphere of the cooperation with local law firms, with Angolan companies, as well as from other Portuguese speaking African countries, having a deep knowledge of the legislation in a wide range of sectors.
He has been actively working in the Angolan market for close to 20 years assisting clients from Oil & Gas sector, Construction and Maintenance, Real Estate, Aviation, Shipping and Telecommunications, on General Business, Corporate and Commercial matters, as well as related to Dispute Resolution.
Experience
Academic
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Law degree (1991)