Practice overview
Paula Costa e Silva, C.Arb, is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where she obtained her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate degrees in Law, specialising in Legal Sciences. She is the President of the Board of the Securities Institute of the same institution. She is also the Director of Ius Dictum. Journal of General Theory of Law.
Paula Costa e Silva is a fully qualified lawyer at the Portuguese Bar Association and the Brazilian Bar Association, independent arbitrator and legal expert.
As an independent arbitrator, Paula Costa e Silva has participated as Sole Arbitrator, Presiding Arbitrator and Co-Arbitrator in more than one hundred national and international arbitrations, both institutionalised and ad hoc, mainly in matters relating to corporate law, public-private partnerships, construction, international contracts, banking & financing and patents, among others. She has also acted as a mediator. As arbitrator and legal expert in banking and finance, she was admitted to the Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E.).
Among others, she acts or has acted as an arbitrator for the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce (CAM-CCBC), the Market Arbitration Chamber (CAM) and the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CAC), of which she is also Vice-President.
Professional associations
Paula Costa e Silva is a CIArb Chartered Arbitrator.
She is a member of the lists of arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce (CAM-CCBC), the CAM – Câmara de Arbitragem do Mercado, the B3 – Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão, the CAMARB – Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem Empresarial – Brasil, the Med Arb RB (Mediation and Arbitration for Recovery and Business), the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (Shenzhen Arbitration Commission, SCIA), the South China International Arbitration Center (Hong Kong) Reccomended Panel of Arbitrators and the Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CAC), of which she is also the Vice-President. She is also a member of the Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E.).
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Paula Costa e Silva is in Band 1 of the Chambers and Partners Global and Europe rankings (“dispute resolution: most in demand arbitrators”), as well as “leading arbitrators in Portugal” category of the Leaders League Rankings. She was one of 23 female arbitrators among Jus Connect’s “Most Active Female Arbitrators” Power List.
Publications
Paula Costa e Silva is the author of more than 210 publications.
Qualifications
University of Lisbon:
- Graduate (1988), Master (1990) and Doctor in Law (2002), specialising in
- Legal Sciences; Aggregated Professor (2009) and Full Professor (2010)
Awards
In 2022, Paula Costa e Silva was honoured with the José Carlos Barbosa Moreira Medal by the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law, awarded to jurists who have made a significant contribution to the study of procedural law.
Languages
Portuguese, German, English, Spanish