Raquel Galvão Silva | Lawyers

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“I have a wide-ranging practice advising clients from a variety of sectors and jurisdictions on both contentious and non-contentious matters. I have always worked in a truly international setting dealing with complex matters and this led to an innovative but pragmatic mind-set that I strive to apply when I am alongside my clients, helping them to navigate the ever-growing complex environment in which they operate.”

Overview

Raquel is a counsel in the firm’s Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations department in Lisbon. She has extensive experience advising clients in complex domestic and international arbitration and court proceedings, particularly commercial and corporate disputes, banking and financial litigation, construction, healthcare and public law disputes.

Furthermore, she advises on the full spectrum of intellectual property law, particularly in the healthcare and technology sectors, including patent law and licensing, and provides legal advice on the signing, execution and termination of software and other technology contracts, as well as regulatory issues such as pharmaceutical regulatory compliance.

Raquel is a member of Linklaters’ International Arbitration Group, and of the firm’s Africa Group, with a particular focus on Lusophone African countries and Brazil, and further including the protection of foreign investments.

She is an active member of international and national arbitration associations, often attending conferences and seminars in Portugal and abroad, as a participant or guest speaker. She regularly contributes to international publications and blogs, including Linklaters’ ArbitrationLinks blog.

Raquel is ranked as an Arbitration Future Leader by Lexology Index and has been consistently recognised as one of the leading patent lawyers in Portugal by IAM Patent 1000, and is also ranked by Chambers and Partners (Dispute Resolution: The Elite in Portugal).

Experience

Novo Banco: advising this Portuguese bank in several disputes arising from its incorporation as Portugal’s first bridge bank in Portugal following the banking resolution of Banco Espírito Santo, S.A. (BES), including, among various others, two arbitration proceedings representing over €600m against the Portuguese Resolution Fund concerning the interpretation of the Contingent Capital Agreement entered into when Novo Banco was sold to Lone Star.
Patent infringement proceedings: advising and representing leading global pharmaceutical companies, such as Pfizer, Astellas Pharma, Vertex and Bristol Myers Squibb, in numerous patent infringement proceedings in Portugal over the past 20 years relating to various blockbuster products.
A multinational technology group: representing the group in high-profile class actions initiated by local consumer associations in Portugal alleging breaches of consumer law (including unfair and misleading practices and product liability issues).
A multinational engineering and construction group: assisting the group in UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings against the Republic of Cameroon regarding the construction of a highway in the country.

Beyond the Office

Raquel is an active member of the Portuguese Arbitration Association (APA) and has co-chaired its Under 40 Committee for six years, integrating one of its working committees. She is also a member of the ICC Commission on Intellectual Property and of the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum.

Within the firm, Raquel is also part of Linklaters’ International Arbitration Group and of the Africa Group, having been on a secondment in 2020 to Linklaters’ alliance partner Webber Wentzel, in Johannesburg.

She is highly engaged with women’s leadership and tech sector initiatives. Concurrently, she is one of Lisbon’s ambassadors for the Arbitration Lunch Match global initiative, which brings together female arbitration practitioners and arbitrators for networking lunches in more than 45 cities worldwide.

Finally, she is the co-head for Innovation & Disruption within the Lisbon office.

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Education, Qualifications and Languages

Raquel started her professional career as a Summer Trainee at Linklaters’ Lisbon and London offices in 2007. She then joined the firm’s Lisbon office as a Junior Associate in 2008, becoming an Associate in 2010, being promoted to Managing Associate in 2017 and to Counsel in 2022.

Raquel holds a Law Degree from the Faculty of Law of the NOVA University of Lisbon (2007). She completed post-graduate studies in Intellectual Property at the Lisbon University Law School (2008), and attended the curricular unit of the Master’s in Business Law at the NOVA University of Lisbon School of Law (2007–2008). She furthermore obtained an LL.M in International Arbitration at Queen Mary University of London (2015), with Distinction.

Additionally, Raquel attended various national and international courses on topics related to her area of expertise, such as a post-graduate course on Intellectual Property (2008), an Advanced Course on Patent Law (2009), the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office’s course on Biotechnology and Patent Law (2010) and Patents in Life Sciences (2011), WIPO’s Trademarks Summer course (2012), and the ICC’s Advanced PIDA Training on International Commercial Arbitration and FIDIC International Construction Contracts and the Resolution of Disputes course (both in 2013).

Raquel lectures on private law and international arbitration and has been a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon since 2019.

She is a member of the Portuguese Bar Association since 2011.

She speaks Portuguese and English.

Thought Leadership

Raquel has published articles in national and international publications on topics related to her field of expertise, such as arbitration and intellectual property law, a selection of which follows here:

Portugal (chapter), in Legal Privilege & Professional Secrecy 2021 (co-author)
Portugal, in Cross-border Guide on the Impact of Insolvency on International Arbitration, Linklaters, 2021 (co-author)
“International Arbitration in Brazil”, in International Commercial Arbitration Handbook, 2nd edition, Stephan Balthasar, 2021 (co-author)
“Jurisdiction Issues and State Courts” in International Arbitration, edited by André Pereira da Fonseca et al., Wolters Kluwer, 2020 (co-author)
“Commercial mediation in Portugal” in Commercial Mediation – A Global Review, Linklaters, 2020 (co-author)
“The Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review – Portugal”, in The Law Reviews, 2018 (co-author)
“Legal Privilege & Professional Secrecy – Portugal”, in Law Business Research, 2018 (co-author)
“Investment Treaty Arbitration – Mozambique”, in Global Arbitration Review, 2016 (co-author)
“The Southern African Development Community and its protocol in finance and investment”, in TDM 4 – Transnational Dispute Management, 2016, with Nuno Ferreira Lousa
“International Arbitration in Brazil”, in International Commercial Arbitration Handbook, Stephan Balthasar, C.H. Beck-Hart-Nomos, 2016, with Nuno Ferreira Lousa
Portugal (Chapter 10), in The Intellectual Property and Antitrust Review, 2016 (co-author)
“Arbitrating Intellectual Property Disputes in Portugal: A Case Study”, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 2015
“Amendments to the Brazilian Arbitration Law – an outsider’s view”, Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 2014

Overview

Experience

Novo Banco: advising this Portuguese bank in several disputes arising from its incorporation as Portugal’s first bridge bank in Portugal following the banking resolution of Banco Espírito Santo, S.A. (BES), including, among various others, two arbitration proceedings representing over €600m against the Portuguese Resolution Fund concerning the interpretation of the Contingent Capital Agreement entered into when Novo Banco was sold to Lone Star.

Patent infringement proceedings: advising and representing leading global pharmaceutical companies, such as Pfizer, Astellas Pharma, Vertex and Bristol Myers Squibb, in numerous patent infringement proceedings in Portugal over the past 20 years relating to various blockbuster products.

A multinational technology group: representing the group in high-profile class actions initiated by local consumer associations in Portugal alleging breaches of consumer law (including unfair and misleading practices and product liability issues).

A multinational engineering and construction group: assisting the group in UNCITRAL arbitration proceedings against the Republic of Cameroon regarding the construction of a highway in the country.

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