
Rui Botica Santos
Partner
Practice Areas
- Arbitration, Mining, Oil & Gas Law, Sports Law, Air Law, Corporate Law
Contact
Email: rui.santos@cralaw.com
Languages
- English
- Spanish
Member
- Portuguese Bar Association since 1995
- Brazilian Bar Association since 2006
- Timor Leste Bar Association since 2012
- 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