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João Tiago da Silveira rejoined the firm in 2011. He is a member of the administrative and public procurement team.

Mr. da Silveira has been a Lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon since 1993 in the following postgraduate courses: Administrative Law and Public Procurement Law.

João Tiago da Silveira integrates the list of arbitrator-presidents of the Arbitration Courts that act within the scope of the Economic and Social Council.
He has played an active role in several high public positions, namely as a State Secretary of Justice, State Secretary of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and Director of the Cabinet of Legislative Policy and Planning of the Ministry of Justice.

During his role in these high public positions, he conceived and executed initiatives on cost reductions and simplification of registries and notaries, the use of new technologies in courts, better regulation in legislative production, promotion of alternative means of dispute resolution, urban rehabilitation and the reform of administrative litigation. 

João Tiago da Silveira was an assistant to the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Parliamentary issues and technique Commission for the preparation of the program for the quality and efficiency of the normative acts of the Government and a member of the High Council of the Public Ministry and an elected member of the High Council of the Public Ministry.