Joaquim Taveira da Fonseca

Practice Areas

. focuses his activity on advising companies and individuals, drafting contracts and civil litigation, especially on matters related with Corporate Law, Civil Law and Labour Law;

. works on cases of high value and complexity, concerning contracts, companies and shareholders disputes.

Career

. lawyer with more than 40 years of experience;

. former member of the District Counsel of Porto - Bar Association;

. lecturer at various conferences;

. invited professor of different Law Schools (such as Porto's Law School of Catholic University);

. arbitrator in more than 100 arbitration proceedings, some of which as President and some of which international arbitration.

Professional Memberships

. Member of the Portuguese Bar Association;

. Member of Commercial Arbitration Center of the Portuguese Commercial Arbitration Institute.

Publications

. Deliberações Sociais: Suspensão e Anulação (“Corporate Resolutions: Suspension and Annulment”);

. Idoneidade Moral para o Exercício da profissão (“Moral suitability for the exercise of the profession”);

. Terceiros para Efeitos de Registo (“Third Parties for Registration Purposes”);

. Deliberações Abusivas – O Abuso de Direito da Minoria em colaboração com Armando Triunfante (“Abusive Deliberations – The Abuse of Minority Rights in collaboration with Armando Triunfante”);

. Vinculação das Sociedades em Documentos Escritos (“Binding of Companies in Written Documents”);

. Algumas reflexões sobre Amortização de Quotas (“Some reflections on Amortization of Quotas”);

. Tutela Jurisdicional dos Direitos dos Sócios (objeto de conferência na Ordem dos Advogados, mas ainda não publicado) (Jurisdictional protection of the rights of shareholders (object of conference in the Bar Association, but not yet published”));

. “Variações” sobre Responsabilidades Societárias: Algumas Dúvidas e Interrogações (““Variations” on Corporate Responsibilities: Some Doubts and Questions”);

. Suspensão e Destituição dos Membros dos Órgãos de Administração das Sociedades por Quotas e Anónimas (“Suspension and Dismissal of Members of the Management Bodies of Share and Anonymous Companies”);

. Algumas Reflexões sobre o Julgamento Arbitral da Matéria de Facto (“Some Reflections on the Arbitral Judgment of the Matter of Fact”).