Bruno Garcia da Silva | Lawyers

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"I assist clients with risk analysis and management, and help them resolve their business-critical disputes. I focus on the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors, with particular experience in ESG, climate and human rights litigation, public and regulatory matters (especially energy regulation), B2B disputes and business crimes, including EU sanctions."

Overview

Bruno is an associate in our Belgian Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations practice.

He focuses on disputes and investigations in the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors. His practice covers ESG, climate and human rights litigation, EU energy and public law, and business crime matters, with a particular emphasis on EU sanctions – turning complex regulatory change and geopolitical risk into clear, actionable dispute and risk management strategies.

In addition, Bruno was also an assistant lecturer and an affiliated researcher of the UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Brussels between 2021 and 2024. He frequently publishes on a variety of topics, including environmental and energy law.

Bruno is a passionate advocate for social mobility and has been a mentor of students from disadvantaged backgrounds embarking on a career in the legal sector. He is also a pro bono coordinator and a member of the Green Committee of our Belgian office.

Experience

Bruno has worked on a wide range of disputes. Those that can be disclosed include:

Advising several companies active in a variety of sectors on recent developments in ESG, including assessing litigation and enforcement risks as well as designing practical compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation.
Representing nuclear energy producers in various legal proceedings before the Court of Justice of the EU, the Belgian Constitutional Court, Brussels’ Market Court and other courts for breach of EU law and fundamental rights to property and non-discrimination.
Assisting electricity and gas distribution system operators, in challenging new methodologies for the calculation of the energy distribution tariffs imposed by regulators.
Advising a multinational company with internal investigations across several jurisdictions in relation to alleged business crimes issues in its supply chain.
Assisting multiple financial institutions and companies navigate economic sanctions imposed by the EU on third countries (including Russia) and assess their impact on transactions, supply chains and dispute risks.
Defending an investment management firm against damages claims based on alleged wrongful fulfilment of discretionary management obligations

Beyond the Office

Bruno has been an associate in our Belgian Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations team since 2021. He was also an assistant lecturer and an affiliated researcher of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Constitutional Research of the UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Brussels between 2021 and 2024, regularly publishing on ESG, climate and EU energy topics.

Education, Qualifications and Languages

Bruno was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 2021 (Finalist Prix George Boels).

He holds a Master of Laws degree in environmental and energy law (LL.M.) from the Stanford University (2024-2025), and a Double Master of Law degree in international and European law and financial regulation from the KU Leuven (2019-2020) and Universität Zürich (2020-2021). He obtained his Bachelor of Law degree from the University Saint-Louis – Brussels (2016-2019; Law Faculty Prize “Prix du Bac”).

Bruno fluently speaks French, English and Portuguese, and has a working knowledge of Dutch.

Thought Leadership

Garcia da Silva, Bruno, ‘Streamlining the Licensing of Nuclear Power Plants without Compromising the Core: EU Environmental Reviews’ JENRL (2026).
Garcia da Silva, Bruno and Milcamps, Pierre-Noé, ‘The Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products: When the EU Takes on Deforestation’s Corrupted Roots’ 6 EEELR 293 (2023).
van Drooghenbroeck, Sébastien, Maes, Evelyne and Garcia da Silva, Bruno, ‘Les compétences non-normatives du Parlement au défi de l’État de droit’ in Emmanuel Vandenbossche (ed), Parlementaire soevereiniteit: een constitutionele utopie? (Die Keure/La Charte 2023).

Overview

Bruno is an associate in our Belgian Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations practice.

Experience

Bruno has worked on a wide range of disputes. Those that can be disclosed include:

Advising several companies active in a variety of sectors on recent developments in ESG, including assessing litigation and enforcement risks as well as designing practical compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation.

Representing nuclear energy producers in various legal proceedings before the Court of Justice of the EU, the Belgian Constitutional Court, Brussels’ Market Court and other courts for breach of EU law and fundamental rights to property and non-discrimination.

Assisting electricity and gas distribution system operators, in challenging new methodologies for the calculation of the energy distribution tariffs imposed by regulators.

Advising a multinational company with internal investigations across several jurisdictions in relation to alleged business crimes issues in its supply chain.

Assisting multiple financial institutions and companies navigate economic sanctions imposed by the EU on third countries (including Russia) and assess their impact on transactions, supply chains and dispute risks.

Defending an investment management firm against damages claims based on alleged wrongful fulfilment of discretionary management obligations

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