About Us

Nuno Silva Vieira is Co-Managing Partner of Paxlegal and one of the leading names in the legal tech sector in Portugal. An enthusiast of technology applied to law, he advocates a human-centric approach in which innovation serves the protection of human rights and human dignity. He believes in the potential of the Portuguese legal industry and in its ability to position Portugal as a legal and technological benchmark worldwide.

Nuno da Silva Vieira holds a law degree from the University of Minho School of Law and attended the MBA programme at AESE Business School between 2016 and 2018. He has also taken part in innovation and entrepreneurship programmes at IESE Business School in New York and at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education, and holds a specialisation in Compliance from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and a Blockchain programme from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

In 2012, he founded Vieira Advogados, a business law and white-collar crime boutique based in Braga, with strong know-how in TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) and digital law.

In 2020, Vieira Advogados merged with Antas da Cunha ECIJA, in a transaction that strengthened that firm’s commitment to digital law and led Nuno da Silva Vieira to join its partnership.

During his time at Antas da Cunha ECIJA, he led the Digital Economy department and was involved in landmark transactions, such as the first live demonstration of a Smart Contract in Portugal, in 2020, and the first cryptocurrency-based real estate transaction in Europe, in 2022. Several of his projects were recognised in consecutive years by the Financial Times (FT) Innovative Lawyers Europe Awards.

He was also one of the main drivers of class actions in Portugal, representing thousands of people, including those harmed by the collapse of BES and other financial institutions.

Recognition and academic activity

In 2018, he was named one of the “40 Portuguese Leaders under 40”, an initiative of the newspaper Expresso and the Forum of Company Directors and Managers. He is an Adjunct Professor at Nova School of Business & Economics, where he teaches modules on decentralised finance and Web3 and where he served as Executive Coordinator of the Blockchain & Smart Contracts Programme.

He has published several books on commercial law, restructuring, management and entrepreneurship, and maintains strong ties with the innovation ecosystem, particularly with the city of Zug, Switzerland, where he founded a technology company.

Nuno is fluent in Portuguese, French and English.