António Pinto Leite, partner and coordinator of the litigation and arbitration team of Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva, is one of the promoters of the “II International Arbitration Meeting of Coimbra”, the largest meeting on arbitration organised in Portugal. Co-organised by José Miguel Júdice, the meeting takes place between 18 and 20 October 2012 at the Law Faculty of the University of Coimbra. It brings together leading individuals of the arbitration world, lawyers and academics from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Paris, London, Madrid, Luanda, Lisbon, Oporto and Coimbra. In these three days the subject in discussion will be the challenges of arbitration as an alternative method for the resolution of conflicts.
Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva will be represented by partner Miguel de Almada, who together with Filipe Vaz Pinto, senior associate, coordinates the session of 18 October targeted to lawyers under 40 years old. On the second day the firm will be once again represented by partnerPedro Costa Gonçalves, who will speak on “Administrative Acts and Arbitration”.
As part of the social program of the meeting on 19 October a tribute dinner to Miguel Galvão Teles, partner of Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva, and to Professor Arnoldo Wald will take place.
