Ricardo is a senior counsel in the Dispute Resolution practice and has 15 years' professional experience in the areas of civil and commercial litigation, and restructuring and insolvency.

He has acted for Portuguese and international clients from various market sectors in commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes and construction disputes, banking and contractual cases, and extra-contractual civil liability cases. Ricardo also has experience in restructuring and insolvency proceedings, where he has advised companies, insolvency administrators and creditors in insolvency or pre-insolvency matters.

He is the author of publications on insolvency law and has participated as a speaker in conferences on the same subject.

Ricardo has completed postgraduate courses in commercial law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa and in securities law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.

In 2020 he was awarded the prestigious Forty under 40 award in the Insolvency & Restructuring category by Iberian Lawyer.

Before joining PLMJ, Ricardo was a lawyer at Linklaters and Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.

Bar Admissions
Admitted to the Portuguese Bar Association, 2010

Education
Law degree from Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2007
Course in financial accounting for executives at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2019
University extension course in arbitration law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, 2014
Insolvency course at ICC Portugal, 2013
Postgraduate course in commercial law at the Faculty of Law of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2009
Postgraduate course in capital markets at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, 2008

Significant Accomplishments
The Legal 500
2023 - Ricardo Silva Pereira, Recommended Dispute Resolution
2023 - Ricardo Silva Pereira, Recommended Insolvency and Restructuring
2022 - Ricardo Silva Pereira Insolvency and Restructuring
2021 - Ricardo Silva Pereira Insolvency and Restructuring
IFLR1000
2023 - Ricardo Silva Pereira, Rising star Insolvency & Restructuring
2022 - Ricardo Silva Pereira, Rising Star Insolvency & Restructuring
2021 - Ricardo Silva Pereira, Rising star Insolvency & Restructuring
2020 - Ricardo Silva Pereira, Rising star Insolvency & Restructuring


Professional Activities and Experience
Associate and managing associate at the law firm Linklaters, 2013-2019
Associate at the law firm Goméz-Acebo & Pombo, 2010-2013