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Biography

Rui Pereira Dias is Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. Rui studied in Porto, Heidelberg, Coimbra, and New York, in addition to having benefited from fellowships of the Max-Planck-Society and of Santander for research stays in Hamburg (Germany) and São Paulo (Brazil), respectively. He holds an LL.M. ('11) by the New York University School of Law (on International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration), where he studied with a Fulbright scholarship. He was also a recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2017/2018), having carried out research on International Company Law in the Max-Planck-Institute (Hamburg) and the University of Heidelberg. Rui is Executive Editor of the Portuguese Company Law Review (DSR) and a member of the team of authors responsible for the seven-volume Commentary of the Portuguese Companies Act (IDET/Almedina), where he is namely in charge of the comments on the rules on Financial Reporting and on International Company Law, including Groups of Companies. In 2017 he became co-editor of the blog Conflict of Laws (www.conflictoflaws.net). Since 2013, he is Vice-President of the Portuguese-German Lawyers Association (DLJV). In 2018, he became a member of the German Society for International Law. Since 2018 Rui serves as Executive Director of the Monitoring Committee in charge of supporting and supervising compliance, by Portuguese listed companies, with the IPCG 2018 Corporate Governance Code. Rui is admitted to practice in Portugal and has acted as independent legal consultant in complex commercial transactions and litigation. He has been appointed as an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitral proceedings, and also nominated by foreign courts to provide expertise on the applicable Portuguese law. He speaks Portuguese, English, German, Spanish, French and Italian.