Paulo Roberto Zancaneli

Paulo is a Brazilian lawyer and a business manager with over 20 years of experience in business law and civil litigation.

Katie Hyman

Katie Hyman

Katie Hyman is dual-qualified as an English solicitor and New York attorney and is admitted as a special legal consultant in the District of Columbia. She is widely experienced in international dispute resolution, including multijurisdictional, offshore and investor-state matters. 

Katie represents a variety of clients, including in the energy and telecoms industries, in high-value, complex international commercial arbitration proceedings under the major arbitral rules all over the world, as well as in investor-state arbitrations. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and accepts arbitrator appointments in addition to her practice as counsel.

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Rita de Carvalho

Rita de Carvalho is a Trainee Lawyer at Victoria Associates since September 2022. She will take the Portuguese Bar Association Exam and become a qualified Lawyer in the Summer of 2024. Rita is also a qualified Mediator, admitted to the Portuguese Ministry of Justice’s List of Mediators

She holds an LLM in Litigation and Arbitration from the NOVA School of Law and is the Executive Director of the NOVA Dispute Resolution Forum (A NOVA Knowledge Centre) since November 2022. Her research is mostly focused on International Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

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Matheus Puppe

Matheus Puppe

Matheus has considerable experience in cross border transactions (both from the business and legal standpoints), particularly  in Germany and Brazil, and is well qualified to assist clients in international arbitration and litigation. Matheus has worked in a number of international and domestic arbitration matters, in Germany and Brazil.

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Kathryn (Lee) Boyd

Kathryn (Lee) Boyd

Kathryn (Lee) Boyd is experienced in international litigation and arbitration with more than 25 years of experience handling matters involving complex commercial matters, foreign sovereign litigation.

Among other matters, Lee has successfully represented a global entertainment and sports company against a FTSE 100 online gaming company in international arbitration; successfully represented U.S. terrorism hijacking victims in international arbitration against foreign nationals for treaty award money granted in $100 million + U.S.-Libya claims settlement; and successfully represented investors in several international arbitrations.

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Marta do Vale Faria

Marta do Vale Faria, LLB, AKC, is a lawyer registered with the Portuguese Bar Association.  

João Nuno Frazão

João Nuno Frazão

João Nuno Frazão is a lawyer qualified in Portugal, admitted to the Portuguese Bar Assocation in 2016.  João is a PhD candidate at Nova School of Law, with research focused on Space Law, International Law and European Law.

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Miguel Salas

Miguel Salas

Miguel Salas is a lawyer with offices in Seville, Spain. He is a founding partner of Salas y Donaire, a firm of lawyers and economists that operates throughout Spain since 1994.

Miguel has extensive practice experience representing clients before the Spanish courts with jurisdiction over a number of areas of law.

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Duarte Henriques

Duarte Henriques

Duarte is a Portuguese lawyer. He is ranked as Thought Leader in Arbitration by Who’s Who Legal and recommended by “WWL” Arbitration 2019 as a “go-to lawyer in Portugal, standing out for his extensive knowledge of commercial and investment treaty disputes.”

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Kyriaki Noussia

Kyriaki Noussia

Dr. Kyriaki Noussia is a Greek Lawyer, an Arbitrator and an Academic (Senior Lecturer in Law (Law School, University of Exeter, UK). She is a admitted to the Athens Bar (Greece) and licensed to appear in front of the Greek Supreme Court (Areos Pagos) and the Greek Conseil d’ Etat (Supreme Administrative Court), (Symvoulio tes Epikrateas). She has extensive experience in dispute resolution and arbitration and has regularly advised and acted on matters in various areas of law, most notably insurance, reinsurance, shipping, energy, environmental, construction and investment law. Later acquired expertise includes the area of Law and Technology, such as issues relating to robotics and the law, the ethics of AI and the law, the regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its application in various industries and sectors as well as cybersecurity issues.  

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Ricardo Vigário

Ricardo Vigário is a lawyer qualified in Portugal, admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association.

He has also provided legal advice within Commercial and Corporate matters, assisting corporate clients, among others regarding the creation and restructuring of companies, contractual drafting and negotiation and assistance within several corporate transactions.

He intervenes regularly in dispute resolution, representing several national and international clients, in negotiation and pre-litigation proceedings, as well as providing legal representation in judicial proceedings, regarding civil and commercial matters.

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