• Macau Lawyers Association since 2013
• Spanish Arbitration Club since 2005
• CAS since 2004
• AIJA since 1997
• APDD – Portuguese Sports Law Association since 2007
• Rexsport
• Comité Português do Cour Européene d’Arbitrage

Honorary Title

• Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights of Malta – Federation of the Autonomous Priories, in the Democratic Republic of East Timor (since 2009)
• Grand-Cross of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights of Malta – Federation of the Autonomous Priories (since 2009)

Professional Experience

• Partner (since 1998)
• Associate (1995-1998)
• Founder Member of CRA Timor (2006)
• Speaker at the 1st International Symposium on Arbitration – Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (1997)
• Writer in Semanário Económico (1994-2004)
• Speaker at various working sessions at seminars organised by the AIJA (since 1997)
• Mediator certified by the Ministry of Justice since 2001
• Invited Lecturer in the Master degree course in International Sports Law, at ISDE-Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía, Madrid, where he teaches Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration (since 2007)
• Official arbitrator at CAS-Court of Arbitration for Sport, with headquarters in Lausanne (since 2004)
• Invited Lecturer on the Post-Graduate course in Business Management and Law, in which he teaches Conflict Resolution and the workshop on Insolvencies, at Nova Fórum – Instituto de Formação de Executivos, Faculty of Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2003-2005)
• Positions held on AIJA:
  Executive Committee (1999-2002 and 2005-2008)
  Vice-President for Portugal (2002-2005)
  Finance Officer of the Law Course Committee and Finance Committee (1997)

Academic Education

• Licentiate Degree in Law from Lisbon University (1992)
• Post-Graduate course in Community Studies at Lisbon Law Faculty (1993-94)
• Course in Civil and Commercial Mediation taught by Professor Serge Roy (2001)
• Short Law Course – Domestic and International Issues, at Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, USA (May 2009)

Publications

• Author of various articles on Arbitration and Mediation
• Author of legal articles in the Semanário Económico newspaper and in working committees of the AIJA.
• Co-author of “Sports Law in Portugal”, Wolters Kluwer in 2011