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Galeria de fotos | Encontro do Ciarb debate produção de provas na arbitragem

No dia 21 de outubro de 2026, o Ciarb Brazil Branch, em parceria com o Instituto Brasileiro de Direito da …

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YMG do Ciarb e CJA/CBMA abrem inscrições para o Mock Trial no Rio de Janeiro; confira o edital

O Young Members Group (YMG) do CIArb Brazil Branch, em parceria com o Comitê de Jovens Arbitralistas do Centro Brasileiro …

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Inscreva-se no Workshop de Mediação na Reestruturação de Empresas em Campinas: Edital Aberto!

O Ciarb Brazil Branch, por meio do Young Members Group (YMG), apresenta o Workshop de Mediação na Reestruturação de Empresas …

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Participe do evento “30 anos da Lei de Arbitragem”, promovido com apoio institucional do Canal Arbitragem, do Ibrachina e do Center for International Arbitration Studies da PUC-SP

Em comemoração aos 30 anos da Lei nº 9.307/96, este evento gratuito organizado pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo …

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Inscreva-se no evento “AI in International Arbitration: Regulation and Guidelines”

O Ciarb promove um encontro dedicado aos impactos da inteligência artificial na arbitragem, reunindo especialistas de diferentes jurisdições para discutir …

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Jonathan Vita

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Lawyer, Legal Consultant and Accountant. Specialist in Tax Law from the Brazilian Institute of Tax Studies – IBET-SP, Master and Doctor in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC-SP and Master in Second Level in Company Tax Law from the Luigi Bocconi Commercial University – Milan – Italy . Postdoctoral internship as Senior visiting research fellow at WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) – Vienna – Austria.

Jonathan Vita

Lawyer, Legal Consultant and Accountant. Specialist in Tax Law from...

Ely Caetano Xavier Junior

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]

Lecturer in Private International Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro and lecturer in International Law at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, with extensive experience in research and publications on topics relating to international economic law and international transactions. During his academic career, he has held academic administrative posts and contributed to teaching, research and innovation at other institutions. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been nominated for the European Commission’s list of arbitrators for commercial dispute resolution proceedings within the European Union. Lawyer.

Ely Caetano Xavier Junio

Lecturer in Private International Law at the State University of...

Diogo Ciuffo Carneiro

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Diogo is a partner in Lefosse’s Dispute Resolution practice.
He has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration, with a focus on complex litigation and domestic and international arbitration. He represents clients from a wide range of sectors, including logistics, pulp and paper, energy, construction and hospitality, handling numerous highly complex commercial and regulatory disputes.

Diogo Ciuffo Carneiro

Diogo is a partner in Lefosse’s Dispute Resolution practice. He...

Alex Pinedo-Mindreau

Position: Associate
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: ACIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Law graduate of the University of Lima and holder of a Master’s degree in International Business Law from the University of Barcelona. University lecturer and arbitrator. Specialising in conflict prevention and resolution.

Alex Pinedo-Mindreau

Law graduate of the University of Lima and holder of...

Brayan Arturo Paredes Espejo

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Peruvian lawyer and arbitrator specializing in public procurement, construction law, and alternative dispute resolution. Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), holder of a Master’s in Economic Administrative Law from Universidad del Pacífico, and doctoral candidate in Government and Public Administration at Universidad Continental, Paredes Espejo researches new arbitrable matters such as State liability. Additional studies include Public Works Law (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Dispute Boards (PUCP), and Construction Law and Dispute Resolution (UPC).

Director of BAPE Legal: Public Works Law, Paredes Espejo has acted as arbitrator in numerous institutional proceedings before the Lima Chamber of Commerce, the Arequipa Chamber of Commerce, the Peruvian College of Engineers, and other arbitration centers. Experience also includes serving as arbitral secretary in over sixty cases and as an expert witness in reports totaling hundreds of millions of soles in public works contracts. Current practice encompasses comprehensive contract management under Law No. 32069 and advisory work on contractual risks in road infrastructure.

Author of publications on arbitration and public procurement, Paredes Espejo wrote a thesis on arbitration as the natural forum for State liability disputes arising from public works, which earned academic recognition and was later published as a scientific article. With the newly obtained Ciarb credential, Paredes Espejo adds an international seal to a career built on hard work and without shortcuts.

Brayan Arturo Paredes Es

Peruvian lawyer and arbitrator specializing in public procurement, construction law,...

Rafael Gagliardi

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow
Country: Brazil

Rafael Gagliardi

Specialties: Dispute Resolution

Alexandre Chiochetti Ferrari

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Formado em Direito pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). Atualmente é Juiz de Direito do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado de São Paulo (TJSP), tendo sido aprovado em 1º lugar na prova oral do concurso. É ainda Juiz da 382ª Zona Eleitoral do Tribunal Regional Eleitoral de São Paulo (TRE-SP) e integrante da 2ª Turma do Colégio Recursal da Fazenda Pública de Santo André. Foi orador titular da equipe da PUC-SP no 17º Willem C. Vis Moot (Viena, Áustria – 2010) e coach das equipes da PUC-SP no 19º Willem C. Vis Moot (Viena, Áustria – 2012) e no 10º Willem C. Vis Moot East (Hong Kong – 2013). Bolsista da PUC-SP, por mérito acadêmico, na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Durham (Reino Unido – 2010). Aprovado também no 56º Concurso de Ingresso na Magistratura do Estado de Goiás (TJGO – 2016).

Alexandre Chiochetti Fer

Formado em Direito pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo...

Pedro Henrique Bandeira Sousa

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Languages spoken: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Country: Brazil
Membership Grade: FCIArb

-Arbitrator – Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem (CBMA), Brazil;

-Sports Arbitration course Coordinator – Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem (CBMA), Brazil;

-Vice-President of the 1st Disciplinary Committee of the Santa Catarina Football Sports Court, Brazil;

-Member of the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, Santa Catarina Section Arbitration Committee, Brazil;

-Member of the Brazilian Bar Association;

-Member of the Portuguese Bar Association;

-Master in Transnational Law (Dissertation: Sports Arbitration);

-Publisher:

— A Câmara Nacional de Resolução de Disputas da CBF: Instauração do Processo, Procedimento e Natureza das Decisões à Luz do Instituto da Arbitragem. In: Douglas Anderson Dal Monte; Rodrigo de Assis Horn. (Org.). ANUÁRIO MH 2019. 1ed. Florianópolis: Conceito Editorial, 2019, v. 1, p. 261-282

— The Arbitral Nature of the Dispute Resolution Chamber – ‘Discussion on the necessary requirements for the decisions of the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber to be recognized as arbitration awards’. In: MEIRIM, José Manuel (Director). REVISTA DO DIREITO DO DESPORTO. Ano II, n.º 4, Setembro-Dezembro 2020. Lisboa: AAFDL / FPF PORTUGAL FOOTBALL SCHOOL, 2020, p. 76-100

— ARBITRATION: STATUTES OF LIMITATION TO INITIATE AN ARBITRATION PROCEEDING

Discussion about the institute, legal nature and possible consequences for the expiration of the term. Revista Brasileira de Alternative Dispute Resolution – RBADR, v.2, n.4 (jul-dez).

Pedro Henrique Bandeira

-Arbitrator – Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem (CBMA), Brazil;...

Riccardo Giuliano Figueira Torre

Position: Fellow
Phone: +55 11 9 9669-8411
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow
Country: Brazil
Languages Spoken: Portuguese (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), Spanish (intermediate) and French (basic)

Sócio de Wald, Antunes, Vita e Blattner Advogados. Bacharel, Mestre e Doutor em Direito Processual
Civil pela Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (FDUSP). LL.M. em International Business

Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration pela New York University – NYU, bolsista Arthur T. Vanderbilt. Vice-
Presidente da Comissão Especial de Arbitragem da OAB/SP. Diretor do Centro de Mediação e Arbitragem

da Câmara de Comércio Portuguesa no Brasil (CMA-CCPB). Fellow do Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
(FCIArb). Membro da Comissão de Arbitragem e ADR da ICC Brasil, do Institute of World Business Law
da CCI e do Rising Arbitrators Initiative. Autor de diversos artigos sobre arbitragem em publicações
nacionais e internacionais.

Riccardo Giuliano Figuei

Sócio de Wald, Antunes, Vita e Blattner Advogados. Bacharel, Mestre...

José Alberto Gálvez Miranda

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Founding Partner of José Gálvez Abogados, specializing in arbitration, public procurement, infrastructure law, administrative law, dispute boards (JPRD), and dispute resolution. Holds a law degree from Universidad Nacional de Trujillo and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Procurement at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). Extensive experience advising public entities, companies, and contractors on complex contractual disputes, arbitration proceedings, and dispute prevention in public and private infrastructure projects. Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), listed arbitrator with the Lima Bar Association and the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Huancayo and Junín Region, and adjudicator at the latter institution. Regular speaker at national and international conferences and author of legal publications on arbitration and dispute resolution.

José Alberto Gálvez Mira

Founding Partner of José Gálvez Abogados, specializing in arbitration, public...

Jose Augusto Martins

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Experienced Principal with a demonstrated history of working in the legal services industry. Strong education professional skilled in International Law, Legal Assistance, Legal Research, Foreign Investment, and Joint Ventures.

Jose Augusto Martins

Experienced Principal with a demonstrated history of working in the...

Eduardo Terashima

Position: Fellow
Phone: +55 (11) 996321600
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, English

Lawyer and Arbitrator based in São Paulo.

Eduardo has extensive experience with national and international matters related to different sectors, such as the financial market, agribusiness, life sciences, civil construction, automotive industry among others.

Eduardo is a Ph.D candidate and holds a LL.M in International Law at PUC/SP, where he also obtained his Postgraduation Degree in Administrative Law. He holds a LL.M in International Commercial Law from University College London-UCL. He is a professor of Postgraduate courses in Arbitration and International Law at COGEAE-PUC/SP. He coordinates the Group of Studies in International Commercial Law at PUC/SP.

Eduardo Terashima

Lawyer and Arbitrator based in São Paulo. Eduardo has extensive...

Marcelo R. Wydra Escobar

Position: Fellow
Phone: +55 11 3253 5442
Email: [email protected]
Languages spoken: English, Portuguese, Spanish
Country: Brazil
Membership Grade: FCIArb

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Marcelo is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of London (CIArb) and founding member and current Director of CIArb Brazil Branch. He is an attorney and arbitrator based in São Paulo, Brazil. He is also a founding and managing partner at Escobar Advogados, where he has been developing a practice on art, third sector, tax and international law in addition to his primary activity as a litigation lawyer. He is a current legal advisor to Brazilian Contemporary Art Association (ABACT). He is included in the roster of arbitrators of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) and several Brazilian institutions (CAMFIEP, CBMAE, CAMES and CAMNORTE). Further, Marcelo was appointed to the Arbitration pool of CAfA in June 2020. He also has experience in resolving disputes as a former Judge of the Administrative Tax Court of the State of Sao Paulo, and a former Counselor Judge of Tax Council of the City of Sao Paulo.

Marcelo’s educational background includes: PhD and Master degrees in Law; Visiting Student at Durham University (UK); Postgraduate in Corporate Law and Civil Procedure. He is a professor at LL. M. in Arbitration at the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (IBMEC) and Post-Graduation in Arbitration at PUC/SP-COGEAE (TOP UK Santander Universities Award Winner, Makenzie/Santander Universities). He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese and has an additional good command of French.

Marcelo R. Wydra Escobar

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Elias Stefen

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Carlos Elias Stefen holds a PhD in Procedural Law from the University of São Paulo and has over 15 years of experience in complex litigation and arbitration. He acts as counsel and arbitrator in domestic and international disputes involving corporate, commercial, and construction matters. He is listed as an arbitrator with several Brazilian arbitration institutions and has experience in proceedings before the ICC. He also teaches procedural law and arbitration at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and delivers practical training for legal and technical professionals.

Elias Stefen

Carlos Elias Stefen holds a PhD in Procedural Law from...

Christine Santini

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow
Branch: Brazil
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish

Christine Santini is a mediator, arbitrator and legal consultant, with a vast experience in civil and public law as a judge, both in 1st and 2nd instances, at São Paulo Court of Justice (1987/2021). She is a JD from University of São Paulo and holds an Executive MBA in Law (Management and Business Law) from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, member of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr), Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, DRBF-Dispute Resolution Board Foundation and IBDiC-Brazilian Institute of Construction Law.

Christine Santini

Christine Santini is a mediator, arbitrator and legal consultant, with...

Beatriz Estill

Position: Vice-Presidente do YMG do Ciarb Brazil Branch
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: ACIArb
Branch: Brazil

Advogada associada ao COSRO. Atua em resolução de disputas e arbitragem. Pesquisadora visitante na Unidroit (Roma). Pós-graduação em Direito Processual Civil pela UERJ. Mestranda em Direito Civil na PUC-Rio. 

Beatriz Estill

Advogada associada ao COSRO. Atua em resolução de disputas e...

Bryan Longo

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Graduate and Master’s student in International Law at the University of São Paulo (USP – Largo de São Francisco), serving as Coordinator of the STRATEGIC CORPORATE and INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY practice areas. Possesses practical experience and specialized training in representing clients in complex disputes, both in arbitration and in court proceedings. Work in STRATEGIC CORPORATE LAW focuses on functional governance and the development of efficient, innovative strategies for corporate structuring. Specific experience in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY includes expertise in programming and cloud computing tools. Also advises clients in the electricity sector on projects involving the free energy market and reserve energy market.

Bryan Longo

Graduate and Master’s student in International Law at the University...

Fabiana Videira Lopes

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Partner – Litigation and Arbitration

Fabiana Videira Lopes

Partner – Litigation and Arbitration

Fernando Marcondes

Position: Associate
Email: [email protected]
:
Membership Grade: ACIArb
Branch: Brazil

Partner at MAMG Advogados.

Fernando Marcondes

Partner at MAMG Advogados.

Marcos Fontes

Position: Diretor de Educação do Ciarb Brazil Branch
Phone: 5511985392007
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow
Country: Brazil
Languages Spoken: Portuguese; english, spanish

More than 20 years devoted to the civil, commercial and corporate areas, with focus on local and international arbitration and complex litigation.  Significant experience on M&A transactions as well. Has also appeared as expert witness before international tribunals, and Arbitrator under various Arbitration Centers and rules.

Marcos Fontes

More than 20 years devoted to the civil, commercial and...

Antonio Abdalla

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow
Branch: Brazil

Graduado em Direito pela PUC-MG; mestrado pela Loyola Law  School, Los Angeles/US; FCIArb Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Prof. Assistente Direito Comercial PUC-SP; especialização em Gestão Executiva pela FDC/Kellogg School of Management, Chicago/US; especialização em Gestão Avançada pela FDC/INSEAD, Fontainebleau/FR; especialização em Desenvolvimento de Dirigentes PAEX – FDC; Programa de Desenvolvimento de Conselheiros – FDC

Antonio Abdalla

Graduado em Direito pela PUC-MG; mestrado pela Loyola Law  School,...

Frank García Ascencios

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Lawyer with a Master’s degree in Business Law from the University of Lima and an LL.M. specializing in Business and Commercial Law from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Over 15 years of experience in the public and private sectors, specializing in arbitration, public procurement, administrative law, regulation, healthcare, and insurance. Legal consultant, arbitrator, and accredited extrajudicial conciliator, with experience at SUSALUD and the State Attorney General’s Office. Professor of Special Arbitration and Dispute Boards and Administrative Law at the University of Lima. Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and the Spanish and Ibero-American Arbitration Club. Active in academic research, specialized publications, and national and international conferences.

Frank García Ascencios

Lawyer with a Master’s degree in Business Law from the...

Carlos Christian Gonzales Cabello

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

A lawyer who graduated with the academic distinction of Magna Cum Laude from the University of Lima, holding a Master’s degree in Business Law (MDE) from Antonio de Nebrija University in Madrid (Spain, 2003–2004) and having completed postgraduate courses at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain, 2003–2005).

Specialist in arbitration, public procurement, civil law and administrative law.

Commercial arbitrator, adjudicator, extrajudicial conciliator and international mediator.

Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Ciarb (2024) and Member of the Dispute Resolution Bar Foundation – DRBF (2024).

Graduate of the International Commercial Arbitration Programme at the Centre on International Commercial Arbitration, American University Washington College of Law (USA, 2023).

Has 23 years’ professional experience and holds diplomas in International Commercial Arbitration, Construction Law, Administrative Law relating to Public Procurement, Contracts with the State, New Market Law, Arbitration Law, Business Law and Business Administration.

He is fluent in English.

Carlos Christian Gonzale

A lawyer who graduated with the academic distinction of Magna...

Fabrine Raupp Hartog Soares

Position: Member
Phone: +55 21 2276-6200
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Languages Spoken: Portuguese, English

A solicitor at Kincaid | Mendes Vianna Advogados, Fabrine Hartog has over 12 years’ practice and experience in commercial transactions involving the energy, infrastructure and maritime sectors, as well as experience in dispute resolution through arbitration and mediation. She worked for over eight years as a corporate lawyer for Brazilian and foreign companies operating in the maritime support and shipbuilding sectors, gaining expertise in complex cases within the maritime industry. In 2022, she was recognised as one of the most renowned lawyers in Rio de Janeiro by Análise Advocacia.

She holds a Master’s degree (LL.M) in International Commercial Law, specialising in the oil and gas sector, from the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 2019. She completed a postgraduate programme at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV/RJ) in 2016. She graduated with a degree in Law from Cândido Mendes University, Brazil, in 2011.

She is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB); a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARb); Secretary-General of the Maritime and Port Law Committee of the OAB/RJ; a member of the Business Law Committee of the OAB/RJ; and was a member of the Legal Committee of the Brazilian Association of Maritime Support Companies (ABEAM); a member of the Women’s International Shipping and Trade Association (WISTA), a member of the Maritime, Transport and Arbitration Law Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), and is included on the List of Arbitrators of the Brazilian Centre for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA).

Fabrine Raupp Hartog Soa

A solicitor at Kincaid | Mendes Vianna Advogados, Fabrine Hartog...

Fabiano Sannino

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Product and project management; Portfolio management; Change Management; resilience management; Process management and innovation.

Fabiano Sannino

Product and project management; Portfolio management; Change Management; resilience management;...

Gianluca Gazzola

Position: Member
Phone: 082 99622 7024
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

Graduated in Civil Engineering with honors, MBA in Finance, 25 years of executive experience in project management, contract and claim management. Chartered Arbitrator and Quantity Surveyor.

Experienced in executing international construction projects, including complex power generation plants and large-scale infrastructure developments. Proficient in implementing measures to ensure meeting and exceeding compliance with budget, schedule, quality, safety,
and customer expectations.

Experience gained during the execution of industrial buildings, LNG to Power projects, Simple Cycle and Combined Cycle power plants, water distribution systems, gas &; water pipelines, water treatment plants, HV Switchyard & Transmission Lines, Piers & Docks, roads & railways, tunneling & airports.

Highly skilled in Contract Administration, Claims Management and Dispute Avoidance and Resolution. Focused on implementing project commercial and contractual strategies that constantly exploits opportunities and minimize exposure to risks.

Tested and skilled in Project and Contract Management, Finance and Accounting, resolution of Claims and Disputes, Litigation Support.

Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Gianluca Gazzola

Graduated in Civil Engineering with honors, MBA in Finance, 25...

Rafael Wallbach Schwind

Position: Fellow
Phone: +55 41 99990-3555
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow

FCIArb, Doctor and Master of Public Law from the University of São Paulo, Visiting Scholar at the University of Nottingham (2016), Professor of Administrative Law, arbitrator, and lawyer with experience in advisory and litigation matters in public law in general.

Rafael Wallbach Schwind

FCIArb, Doctor and Master of Public Law from the University...

Jhoel Chipana

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Lawyer, OECE arbitrator, adjudicator, and Partner at Chipana Catalán Abogados, with over 15 years of professional experience and university teaching experience since 2015. Author of more than ten books on arbitration, public procurement, infrastructure, and civil law. President of the Appeals Committee of the Peruvian Football Federation since 2026 and ranked by Leaders League.

Jhoel Chipana

Lawyer, OECE arbitrator, adjudicator, and Partner at Chipana Catalán Abogados,...

Claudia Reyes

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Senior Partner at Estudio Reyes Consultores, a lawyer recognised in Band 5 of Chambers Latin America 2026 and Global Chambers 2026, recommended by Legal 500 Latin America 2026 and Leaders League 2026, and an MCIArb arbitrator.

A lawyer qualified from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru with over 20 years’ experience in public and private arbitration, holding a Master’s degree in Public Procurement Law from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; and a Master’s degree in Company Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; and with specialisations in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution Boards (JRDs), delivered by the Centre for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), CEU San Pablo University in Madrid, Spain, and other institutions; as well as studies in investment arbitration and construction law at the American University Washington College of Law.

Claudia Reyes

Senior Partner at Estudio Reyes Consultores, a lawyer recognised in...

Aline Rosado Targino da Nóbrega

Position: Associate
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: ACIArb
Branch: Brazil

Lawyer with an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University’s Straus Institute, with experience in strategic legal support, contract management and corporate governance. Currently Deputy Secretary-General of CAM AMCHAM, coordinating legal and finance teams, supporting senior leadership, risk management and operational efficiency. Experience in arbitration and mediation administration, contract negotiation and risk allocation, dispute consulting and Dispute Systems Design. Also develops conflict prevention and leadership training initiatives.

Aline Rosado Targino da

Lawyer with an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine University’s...

Tonico Monteiro da Silva

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Languages spoken: English, Portuguese and French
Country: Brazil
Membership grade: FCIArb

Antonio “Tonico” Monteiro da Silva is based in São Paulo and specialises in disputes involving construction law in general, corporate and commercial issues, as well as trade finance.  He has a Master’s Degree from the Universidade de São Paulo and an MBA in Finance and Investor’s Relations from FIPECAFI.  His main hobby is dressage and show jumping.  He was a director of the riding school of the Sociedade Hípica Paulista for two consecutive terms.

Tonico Monteiro da Silva

Antonio “Tonico” Monteiro da Silva is based in São Paulo...

Gabriella Celidonio Paschoa

Position: Tesoureira do Ciarb Brazil Branch
Phone: +55 11 9 9558 8881
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Languages Spoken: English and Portuguese
Country: Brazil

Advogada e Mediadora. Head de resolução de conflitos da Paschoa Sociedade de Advogados. Mediadora certificada no Brasil e no Reino Unido. Bacharel em direito pela Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP/SP). Pós-graduada em Direito Processual Civil pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC/SP). Mediadora formada pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/SP). Accredited Mediator pela London School of Mediation (LSM). Membro Fellow do Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – FCIArb (Corporate Mediation).

Gabriella Celidonio Pasc

Advogada e Mediadora. Head de resolução de conflitos da Paschoa...

Daniel Brantes Ferreira

Position: Fellow
Phone: (21) 99981-7675
Email: [email protected]
Languages Spoken: Portuguese - English
Country: Brazil
Membership Grade: FCIArb

Daniel B. Ferreira is the CEO of the Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration – CBMA. He is also a professor of at AMBRA University (USA), Senior Researcher at South Ural State University, and research fellow at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Author and co-author of several papers in ADR, published in high-ranked journals, including Scopus and Web of Science, monographs, and textbooks. Daniel is also Editor-In-Chief of the scopus indexed Brazilian Journal for Alternative Dispute Resolution (RBADR) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Law in Changing World (IJLCW). Daniel is a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), qualified mediator at the International Mediation Institute (IMI), and Young Regional Chair for Brazil at the Institute for the Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

Daniel Brantes Ferreira

Daniel B. Ferreira is the CEO of the Brazilian Center...

José Zegarra Pinto

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Lawyer graduated with honours from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), holding an MBA from Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL) and having completed postgraduate studies in Legal Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Professor at PUCP and Universidad ESAN, with extensive experience as a national and international arbitrator. Former Academic Secretary of PUCP’s Faculty of Law and member of the commission reviewing Peru’s Extrajudicial Conciliation Law. Recipient of the Excellence Award for the best MBA graduation project at USIL in 2011 and a World Trade Institute scholarship in 2014. Areas of expertise include arbitration, public procurement, administrative law, civil and procedural law, and intellectual property.

José Zegarra Pinto

Lawyer graduated with honours from the Pontifical Catholic University of...

Alexandre Gonçalves

Position: Member
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Legal professional with an Executive Master’s in General Counsel: Strategy and Leadership from Sciences Po and a Master’s in Litigation, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. Postgraduate qualifications in Business and Economic Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and Tax Law from Universidade Estácio de Sá. President of CAMARC and member of CFA, CBAr, CCI France-Brésil, CCBF, IAB, OAP and OAB/RJ.

Alexandre Gonçalves

Legal professional with an Executive Master’s in General Counsel: Strategy...

Victor Willcox

Position: Fellow
Phone: +55 21 99903 8212
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow
Country: Brazil
Languages Spoken: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Mestre e Doutor em Direito Civil pela Universidade do Estado do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro – UERJ. Pesquisador Visitante (Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow) no Instituto de
Estudos Políticos de Paris (Sciences Po), em Arbitragem Internacional. Procurador do
Município do Rio de Janeiro. Professor Convidado da Pós Graduação Lato Sensu em
Direito Civil Constitucional do Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas no Ensino do Direito
(CEPED) da UERJ, do Curso de Especialização em Direito dos Contratos da Pontifícia
Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio), da Escola Superior de Advocacia
Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (ESAP PGE/RJ) e da Escola Superior de Advocacia
da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (ESA OAB/RJ). Professor de Graduação na
Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV Direito Rio).

Victor Willcox

Mestre e Doutor em Direito Civil pela Universidade do Estado...

Maria Luiza Negreiros d’Assunção

Position: Member
Phone: +55 (83) 99156-5178
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Member
Country: Brazil
Languages Spoken: English, Portuguese, French and Spanish

Maria Luiza is a Brazilian-qualified lawyer who works with strategic dispute resolution
and prevention, arbitration and contract management, with focus on the sectors of
infrastructure and construction.

Maria Luiza Negreiros d’

Maria Luiza is a Brazilian-qualified lawyer who works with strategic...

Claudia Cecilia Lau

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Referee / Adjudicator / Lawyer and Master’s degree in Administrative and Economic Law / DRBF Member / CIARD Member / Specialist in Construction Law and Public Procurement / Lecturer

Claudia Cecilia Lau

Referee / Adjudicator / Lawyer and Master’s degree in Administrative...

Claudio Lava Cavassa

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb

Founding partner of the firm. Qualified as a lawyer from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and holds a Master’s degree in International Commercial Law (LLM) from King’s College London. Arbitrator at the arbitration centres of the Lima Chamber of Commerce, AmCham-Peru and the Belgian and Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Peru. International expert in ICSID arbitration. Member of the Spanish Arbitration Club and The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb). He specialises in the areas of arbitration, contracts, civil law, company law and mergers and acquisitions. He has extensive experience in structuring and designing particularly complex contractual transactions, as well as in devising and managing legal strategies in commercial and corporate disputes. He is the author of various articles in specialist journals in Peru and abroad. Has also previously lectured at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences.

Claudio Lava Cavassa

Founding partner of the firm. Qualified as a lawyer from...

Karin Klempp Franco

Position: Fellow
Phone: +55 11 99657-0191
Email: [email protected]
Languages spoken: German, English, Portuguese
Country: Brazil
Membership Grade: FCIArb

PhD on commercial law from Universidade de São Paulo. LL.M. on International Economic Law at University of Cologne, Germany with Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel; JD from Universidade de São Paulo.

 

She has developed her career in law firms in Germany and Brazil working with/leading the Intellectual Property, Digital Law, Privacy and Data Protection, Dispute Resolution, M&A, and German Desk areas. Ranked at Chambers (Latin America and Global), Leaders League, Best Lawyers, Análise 500 Advocacia.

 

She is a Professor of Law at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses at Facamp – Faculdades Campinas (lectures: Arbitration, Mediation, ADRs and Negotiation, Commercial Law, Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Privacy and Data Protection, Compliance). Guest lecturer in several courses – California Western School of Law, GVLaw, ESA/OAB, Inova/Unicamp, Embrapa.

 

She serves as arbitrator, mediator, and panelist for domain names in different institutions. Karin has a CIPP/E certification – Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe by IAPP – International Association of Privacy Professionals and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Arbitrators of London – FCIArb.

 

Publications: (1) International Transfer of Technology to Brazil (2010), Trends in Alternative Dispute Resolution Concerning Intellectual Property: A Brazilian Perspective (2012); Patent Litigation: Jurisdiction Comparisons – Brazil (2012); Smart trains: quo vadis? A Brief Analysis of Artificial Intelligence from the Perspective of Intellectual Property and Civil Liability (2018); Brazilian Data Protection Law could be efficient for the communications on Covid-19 (2020); Brazilian law Trends for Digital Governance, Fundamental Rights and Personal Data (2020).

Karin Klempp Franco

PhD on commercial law from Universidade de São Paulo. LL.M....

Daniel F. Jacob Nogueira

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Branch: Brazil

Business Lawyer. Vice-President of the Arbitration Commission of the Federal Council-OAB. Electoralist. Angel Investor

Daniel F. Jacob Nogueira

Business Lawyer. Vice-President of the Arbitration Commission of the Federal...

Elizabeth Karem Ramos Lara

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Lawyer, Out-of-Court Mediator, Adjudicator and Arbitrator for various arbitration institutions at national level; at international level, she is a member of the panel of arbitrators at the Arbitration Centre of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce (CAM) and the IBT Arbitration Centre. Former Executive Secretary of the National and International Arbitration Centre of the Peruvian Chamber of Construction (CAPECO), with expertise in arbitration, conciliation, dispute resolution panels, public procurement, construction law and administrative law.

Elizabeth Karem Ramos La

Lawyer, Out-of-Court Mediator, Adjudicator and Arbitrator for various arbitration institutions...

Breno Gatti

Position: Associate
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Associate
Breno Gatti

Guillermo Espino Wong

Position: Member
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: MCIArb
Branch: Brazil
Chapter: Peru

Senior Associate (MCIArb) at Estudio Echecopar, specializing in Construction Law, infrastructure projects, NEC and FIDIC contracts, public procurement, and arbitration. Holds postgraduate studies in Public Procurement from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC). Experienced in contract administration and legal advisory for civil infrastructure and hospital projects, with expertise in risk management, claims, and dispute resolution before public entities and Dispute Boards (JPRD and DAB). Advanced English proficiency.

Guillermo Espino Wong

Senior Associate (MCIArb) at Estudio Echecopar, specializing in Construction Law,...

Pedro Ribeiro De Oliveira

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow
Country: Brazil
Pedro Ribeiro De Oliveir

Luis Henrick Pereira

Position: Associate
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Associate
Country: Brazil
Luis Henrick Pereira

Letícia Baddauy

Position: Fellow
Email: [email protected]
Languages spoken: English, Portuguese, Italian, French
Country: Brazil
Membership Grade: FCIArb

Graduated in Law (University of São Paulo-USP) and Business (Getúlio Vargas Foundation-
FGV/SP). Master in Civil Procedure. MBA in Agribusiness. PhD in Sociology.

Founder at L. Baddauy Advocacia.
Professor at Londrina State University (UEL), teaching Arbitration and ADRs. UELaw International
Dispute Resolution research program founder and coordinator.
Member of the Clube dos Arbitralistas Lusófonos, Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr), Latin
Committee for Greener Arbitrations Pledge and Searching Committee of the ERA Pledge.
Board Member of the Brazilian Institute of Conflict Management (IBGConf).
Board Member of Aurora Incorporadora S/A.

Letícia Baddauy

Graduated in Law (University of São Paulo-USP) and Business (Getúlio...

Marcelo Passinho Casillo Gonçalves

Position: Associate
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Associate
Country: Brazil
Marcelo Passinho Casillo

Marlon Ieiri

Position: Tesoureiro do Ciarb Brazil Branch
Email: [email protected]
Membership Grade: Fellow
Country: Brazil

Bachelor of Law from the State University of Londrina. Master in European Union Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Master in International Trade Law from Université Paris X. PMP certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

Marlon Ieiri

Bachelor of Law from the State University of Londrina. Master...

Isabella Moreira de Andrade Vosgerau

Position: Conselheira Fiscal do Ciarb Brazil Branch
Phone: +55 41 99229-4142
Email: [email protected]
Languages Spoken: Português e Inglês
Membership Grade: FCIArb
Country: Brazil

Admitted to practice (Brazil) in 2012. FCIArb member since 2021. Associate lawyer at Justen, Pereira, Oliveira e Talamini, with experience in arbitration, corporate law and contracts. General Secretary of Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation of FIEP – CAMFIEP.

Isabella Moreira de Andr

Admitted to practice (Brazil) in 2012. FCIArb member since 2021....

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