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NATIONALITY: | Brazilian |
LANGUAGES: | English, Portuguese, Spanish and French |
ADMISSION: | Brazil and New York |
OFFICE: | Paris |
Rodrigo is an associate at Derains & Gharavi, specialised in international arbitration. His areas of practice include international commercial disputes, litigation and Brazilian law. He has acted in proceedings conducted under the arbitration rules of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR), the FGV Chamber of Mediation and Arbitration and the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC). He has also extensively drafted international and national commercial contracts, investment contracts, as well as corporate contracts.
He holds an LLM in International Commercial Law and Arbitration from the Pepperdine University School of Law and an LLB from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.
Rodrigo is a licensed attorney in Brazil and a member of the New York Bar.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Since Sep. 2022 | Associate, Derains & Gharavi (Paris) |
June 2019 – August 2022 | Associate Counsel, Dispute Resolution Practice, Souto Correa Cesa Lummertz & Amaral Advogados (Porto Alegre, Brazil) |
Feb. 2016 – May 2019 | Associate Counsel, Dispute Resolution and Corporate Practices, Zugno & Peña Advogados (Porto Alegre, Brazil) |
Feb. 2016 - Oct. 2017 | Associate General Counsel (secondment), Arena Porto-Alegrense S.A., (Porto Alegre, Brazil) |
EDUCATION
2019 | LLM in International Commercial Law and Arbitration – Pepperdine University School of Law and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (Malibu, USA) |
2017 | Specialization in corporate law – Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) (Brazil) |
2015 | LLB, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) (Brazil) |