Duarte Henriques

Duarte G. Henriques is a lawyer and arbitrator based in Lisbon, Portugal, and a founding member of Victoria Associates, an international boutique law office dedicated to international dispute resolution, with members based in Paris, New York, Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, Lisbon, Athens, Frankfurt and Seville. He was admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association in 1990 (professional licence nr. 8830L) and has practised without interruption or suspension and with no disciplinary or ethical sanctions. Over more than three decades he has acted as counsel, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and chair in litigation and arbitration proceedings involving intellectual property, technology and software, banking and finance, corporate and M&A, commercial and distribution, construction, insurance, tax and investment-treaty disputes. Amounts in dispute have ranged from € 10,000 to € 2.1 billion, in institutional and ad hoc proceedings seated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Intellectual property and technology matters are a core part of his practice. He has sat as sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator in disputes concerning patents and patent applications (including proceedings against the national patent office), industrial property rights relating to reference and generic medicines, software development, licensing and distribution agreements, intellectual property infringement, internet domain names, film and television royalties, and crypto-asset technology. He advises bio-pharmaceutical companies, technology and software solution providers, banking and finance institutions, insurers and energy companies, and has particular experience in third-party funding of disputes. He is listed as arbitrator with, among others, the Patent Mediation and Arbitration Centre of the Unified Patent Court, the HKIAC Panel of Arbitrators for Intellectual Property Disputes, WIPO, ARBITRARE (trademarks, patents, domain names and generic medicines, Lisbon), the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Centre (Tech List), CPR, the ICDR/AAA, CIETAC, SIAC (reserve panel), KCAB, AIAC, the Shenzhen and Shanghai commissions, the Barcelona Arbitration Court, the IFTA Arbitral Tribunal and the Portuguese Commercial Arbitration Centre. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb). His institutional work includes membership of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR, the ICCA–Queen Mary Task Force on Third-Party Funding, the ICC Task Force on Financial Institutions and International Arbitration, the ICC task force on the revision of the ICC rules as appointing authority in UNCITRAL and other ad hoc proceedings, the Arbitration Committee of ICC Portugal, and the Working Group of the Prague Rules. He is a member of the IBA, ICCA, ASA, the LCIA European Users' Council, the International Arbitration Institute (Paris), the Portuguese Arbitration Association and the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society. He holds a law degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon (1988) and postgraduate qualifications in accounting, financial analysis and business assessment (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1998) and in international trade law, contracts and international arbitration (University of Lisbon, 2004–2005), complemented by the ICC PIDA advanced training and ASA advanced practice seminars. He is the author of more than forty publications on Portuguese and international arbitration, including on the arbitrability of copyright and computer program rights, and works in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.