Diogo Costa Gonçalves

Tutor of Labour Law at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, under supervision of Prof. Pedro Romano Martinez (2003-2004).

Trainee Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (2004-2008).

Assistant at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (2008-2014).

Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (2014-2023).

Associate Professor at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (desde 2023).

Guest lecturer in master’s programmes at Universidade Católica Portuguesa and other higher education institutions in Brazil and Angola.

Chairman of the Board of General Assembly of several commercial companies and associations.

Jurisconsult and Arbitrator.

Over the past decade, Costa Gonçalves has served on more than 25 arbitral tribunals, either as co-arbitrator or president. Most arbitrations have been domestic and ad hoc. International arbitrations have been subject to ICC Rules and UNCITRAL Rules.

Disputes have mostly involved issues of Civil Law, Commercial Law, Securities, Corporate Law, Public-Private Partnerships, Patents and Industrial Property.

Costa Gonçalves has also acted as legal expert in several ICC arbitrations and before foreign courts, with reference to Portuguese, Brazilian, Angolan and Mozambican jurisdictions.

Integrates the list of arbitrators of Centro de Arbitragem Comercial da Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Portuguesa.

Integrates the list of arbitrators of CAMARB – Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem Empresarial-Brasil.

Member of Associação Portuguesa de Arbitragem (APA).

Member of Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem (CBar).

Member of Clube de Arbitralistas Lusófonos (CAL).

Member of Associação Lusófona de Arbitragem e Mediação (ALAM).

Member of Asociación Latinoamericana de Arbitraje (ALARB).

Member of ICC Portugal.

Researcher at Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (CIDP).

Member of Friends of the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

Member of Associação Luso-Alemã de Juristas (Deutsch-Lusitanische Juristenvereinigung).

Member of Sociedade Científica da Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Member of Governance Lab, a legal research and critical reflection group on topics related to organisational governance.

Member of Seminário Permanente de Jovens Cientistas of Academia de Ciências de Lisboa (2017-2019)

Permanent member of “Ponte” bioethics reflection group, in articulation with Centro de Estudos de Bioética de Coimbra, under Professor Michel Renaud’s coordination (2006-2008).

At Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa

In Bachelor programmes (since 2004), Costa Gonçalves has taught the following subjects: 

• Introduction to the Study of Law
• Commercial Law
• General Theory of Civil Law
• Law of Obligations

In Master’s and Doctoral programmes (since 2014), he has taught the following subjects:

• Commercial Companies Law (public and listed companies).
• Arbitration and Mediation Law
• Personality Rights
• Commercial Law (co-taught with Prof Pedro de Albuquerque)
• Commercial Law and Securities Law (co-taught with Prof. Paula Costa e Silva)

At Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Since 2017, Costa Gonçalves has been a regular contributor to Law and Business Master’s Degree and to several Postgraduate Courses.

In Brazil

Since 2018, Costa Gonçalves has been teaching, in person or by telematic means, in Postgraduate Studies (including Master’s and Doctoral) of the following institutions:

• Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (USP)
• Faculdade de Direito de Ribeirão Preto (USP)
• Faculdade de Direito da Fundação Getúlio Vargas (SP)
• Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul

In Angola and Mozambique

In Mozambique, within the scope of FDL’s Legal Cooperation Programme, in 2018 Costa Gonçalves taught a Postgraduate Course in Arbitration at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane.

In Angola, he gave lectures at Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Agostinho Neto and collaborates in postgraduate studies organised by FACUL – Centro Académico Digital.

Costa Gonçalves monitors the development of several Master’s theses referring to these countries’ national legislation.

POSTGRADUATE COURSES AND INTENSIVE COURSES

III, X and XI Postgraduate Course in Business Law, Instituto do Direito do Trabalho da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa (Theme: Shareholder Agreements)

I, II, IV, V and VI Advanced Postgraduate Courses in Arbitration Law, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Themes: Incapacitation and substitute arbitrator / Equity decision and amicable settlement (amiable compositeur) / Personal scope of the arbitration agreement and its extension to third parties)

I and II Postgraduate Course in Commercial Company Law, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Themes: Capacity and binding of companies / Lifting the corporate veil – Recent trends in jurisprudence and decision-making models / Acting in conflict of interest – Exercise of legal positions in general meetings).

I, II and III Advanced Postgraduate Course in Banking Law, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Themes: Risk sharing in Project Finance / Directors’ remuneration in credit institutions).

I and III Postgraduate Course on law enforcement, compliance and corporate responsibility, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (Themes: Lifting the corporate veil and imputation problems/Compliance, lifting the corporate veil and civil liability).

II, III, VII and VIII Postgraduate Course in Corporate Finance, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Mergers and acquisitions).

II and III Postgraduate Course in Corporate Governance, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Administration and conflicts of interest) 

I and II Advanced Postgraduate Course in Commercial Litigation, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Merger: types, problems and contingencies, including exchange ratio).

I Intensive Refresher Course on Commercial Company Law, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Capacity of commercial companies).

XVIII Postgraduate Specialisation Course in Labour Law and Social Security, Instituto do Direito do Trabalho da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa (Theme: Transfer of establishment and occasional assignment of workers).

I Intensive Specialisation Course in Business Groups, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Mergers and Aquisitions).

XXII Postgraduate Course in Securities Law, Instituto dos Valores Mobiliários (Theme: Imputation of knowledge in commercial companies)

I, II, III and IV Postgraduate Course in E-Commerce, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado, (Theme: Protection of personality rights in the digital age).

I and II Advanced Postgraduate Course in M&A and Corporate Litigation, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Imputed knowledge).

I, II, III, IV and V Preparation course for CEJ admission, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Personality rights) 

I Intensive Course on Vienna Convention and Unidroit Principles, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Error and other originating disturbances).

I Postgraduate Course in Civil Liability Law, Centro de Investigação de Direito Privado (Theme: Existential damage).

Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Law, Faculdade de Direito de Ribeirão Preto – Brasil (Theme: Introduction to Groups in Portuguese Law and Imputed Knowledge). 

Postgraduate Diploma in Business Ethics: companies and compliance, Faculdade de Direito de Ribeirão Preto – Brasil (Theme: Imputation of knowledge to commercial companies).

Postgraduate course (master’s and doctorate) at Faculdade de Direito da Fundação Getúlio Vargas – SP (Themes: Imputed knowledge, error and culpa in contrahendo in merger transactions / Arbitration and complex contractual arrangements).

I and IV Postgraduate Courses in Securities Law and Banking Law, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Católica – Escola do Porto (Theme: Remuneration of credit institutions’ management).

Collaboration with Fórum Penal – Associação de Advogados Penalistas:

• Participation in Colloquium «O Direito das contraordenações – Que futuro, 40 anos depois?», as a speaker on the panel «A responsabilidade das pessoas coletivas e o risco da organização» (29-mar.-2023).

Collaboration with Escola de Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EMERJ):

• Participation in a webinar on “Contratos”, lecturing on Impossibilidade do cumprimento, renegociação dos contratos e a crise COVID no Direito Português, 07-jul.-2020.
• Participation in a webinar on “Atualidades do Direito Societário”, lecturing on A responsabilidade civil dos administradores, 07-mar.-2022.

Collaboration with Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Empresarial (IBRADEMP):

• Congresso IBRADEMP 15 anos – Disputas em contratos de M&A, São Paulo – Brasil, lecturing on A culpa in contrahendo nos contratos de M&A: uma visão portuguesa (07-out.-2019);
• Participation in a webinar on “Impactos da pandemia nos contratos de M&A: questões sobre as cláusulas MAC”, 22-may-2020.
• Participation in a webinar on “Imputação de conhecimento nas sociedades”, 15-jun.-2022.

Training in Arbitration Law of São Tomé and Príncipe, organised by Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Arbitragem e Resolução de Litígios da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa and by Centro de Arbitragem da Câmara do Comércio, Indústria, Agricultura e Serviços (CA- CCIAS) de São Tomé e Príncipe:

• Lesson Competence of Arbitral Tribunal, 08-jan-2022.

Collaboration in Curso Prático de Arbitragem:

• Participation in a webinar on Fusões e Aquisições – Declarações e garantias (26-may-2022).

Collaboration with Instituto de Estudos Culturalistas (IEC):

• Participation in Seminário Augusto Teixeira de Freitas – Humanismo, Sociedade e Sistema (Celebrating his 205th anniversary), lecturing on O pensamento por ações em Correa de Telles, 28-aug-2021.

Collaboration with Associação de Advogados de São Paulo (AASP):

• Participation in a webinar on “A crise e as empresas (Direito Concursal) no Direito Privado e na Pandemia do COVID-19: as soluções do Direito português e brasileiro em comparação”, 19-may-2020.

Collaboration in a Training Course organised by CES-Lisboa, lecturing on O mandato – Questões práticas e jurisprudenciais (26-jan-2018).

Course at Instituto de Registo e Notariado on Commercial Companies Law (2012, 2013 e 2014).

Collaboration in the book Reflexões sobre ética médica, Principia, Lisbon, 2019, signing its chapter, Uma visão integral da identidade sexual humana in co-authorship with Prof. Pedro Afonso (Psychiatrist – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa) and Dr. Margarida Neto (Psychiatrist).

Interview granted to German Report column (Migalhas-Brasil), conducted by Karina Nunes Fritz, on Pandemia e os contratos, 29-Sept-2020.

Participation in Católica Talks on «Desafiando os clássicos: personalidade e capacidade jurídica no Direito Civil do séc. XXI» with Prof. Judith Martins-Costa’s commentary (08-feb-2022).