Ricardo Silva Pereira

Joined PLMJ in 2022.
Senior counsel in the Dispute Resolution practice.

About Ricardo

Ricardo is a senior counsel in the Dispute Resolution practice and has 15 years' professional experience in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, and restructuring and insolvency.

He has acted for Portuguese and international clients from various market sectors in commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes and construction disputes, banking and contractual cases, and extra-contractual civil liability cases. Ricardo also has experience in restructuring and insolvency proceedings, where he has advised companies, insolvency administrators and creditors in insolvency or pre-insolvency matters.

He is the author of publications on insolvency law and has participated as a speaker in conferences on the same subject.

Ricardo has completed postgraduate courses in commercial law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and in securities law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

In 2020 he was awarded the prestigious Forty under 40 award in the Insolvency & Restructuring category by Iberian Lawyer.

Before joining PLMJ, Ricardo was a lawyer at Linklaters and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.

Practice Areas:

Arbitration

Banking, finance and securities litigation

Commercial litigation

Restructuring and insolvency

Contacts

Office: Lisbon
(+351) 213 197 300*
ricardo.silvapereira@plmj.pt

*National landlines call

Languages:
English, French, Spanish

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Background

Course in financial accounting for executives at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2019
University extension course in arbitration law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2014
Insolvency course at ICC Portugal, 2013
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2010
Postgraduate course in commercial law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2009
Postgraduate course in capital markets at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2008
Law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2007