Rui Andrade

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Labour

Career

Rui Andrade joined VdA in 2015. Partner and co-Head of Labour Practice, Rui has an extensive experience coordinating matters of litigation, arbitration and labour in Angola, Mozambique, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, representing and advising the most relevant national and international companies, including oil industry corporations.

Professional Memberships

Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association.

Admitted to the Timor-Leste Bar Association (Conselho de Gestão e Disciplina).

Member of the Portuguese Litigation Lawyers Circle.

Member of the Portuguese Arbitration Association.

Publications

While Head of the Office of the Portuguese Secretary of State for Consumer Policy, was the author and co-author of various laws, including the Law on Minimum Banking Services and the Law on Special Sales.

He is also the author of ‘The Education of Consumers - Rights and Duties of Consumers' (1997) and an insurance handbook, ‘Vocabulário de Seguros' (2002).