Joana Galvão Teles

Managing Associate, Morais Leitão, Galvão Teles, Soares da Silva & Associados

Joana Galvão Teles is a managing associate and a member of the dispute resolution team, working in litigation and, essentially, in arbitration, including international arbitration, and acting in a variety of industry sectors, including banking, construction, energy, infrastructures, insurance, public–private partnerships, transfers of technology, among others. Joana is also attending the PHD programme at Nova School of Law.

Joana also acts as arbitrator. She participates as counsel and as co-counsel with other foreign teams in several international and national, institutional and ad hoc arbitrations (ICC, the Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and several ad hoc international and national arbitrations) for international and national clients. Joana is a Board Member of the Arbitration Centre of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and President of the Commission Future in the mentioned Arbitration Center.

Joana is a member of Morais Leitão's Africa team, actively participating in international arbitrations and also in the negotiation and inclusion of arbitration clauses in Mozambique and in Angola, acting for international clients.

She regularly participates as a lecturer in postgraduate courses on arbitration and as a speaker at seminars and conferences in the field of arbitration.

She is listed by Who's Who Legal: Arbitration as a 'Future Leader (Non-Partner)'.