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Experience

André specializes in civil litigation and both local and international arbitration, focusing on corporate, commercial, and infrastructure disputes (including energy, oil and gas, construction, and regulatory matters). In 2013, he served on a Senate commission to reform Brazil’s Arbitration Law and draft the country’s Mediation Law. André previously coordinated Pontifical Catholic University’s (PUC-RJ) Commercial Arbitration and Consensual Dispute Resolution Methods postgraduate program (Arbitragem Comercial e Métodos Consensuais de Solução de Conflitos), also teaching undergraduate law courses on arbitration, bankruptcy, and judicial restructuring. André is vastly experienced in insolvency and debt recovery matters. He previously served as an officer at the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr) between 2018 and 2021, as a board member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) (2020/2022 and 2022/2024), and was also an associate at Baker Botts LLP in Washington, DC, in 2006. André is currently a board member of the CBAr.

Education

Master of Laws (LL.M.) – Columbia Law School, New York;

Postgraduate Degree in Civil and Constitutional Law – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ);

Bachelor of Laws – Universidade Candido Mendes (UCAM).

Recognitions

Chambers Brazil – Dispute Resolution: Rio de Janeiro (2022 – 2024), Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2017 – 2025), Dispute Resolution: Litigation (2018 – 2025);

Chambers Global – Dispute Resolution: Arbitration (2018 – 2025) and Dispute Resolution: Litigation (2019 – 2025);

Latin Lawyer 250 – Arbitration (2020, 2023 – 2024 – 2025), Litigation (2020, 2023 – 2024 – 2025), Restructuring & Insolvency (2015 – 2019);

The Legal 500 – Dispute Resolution (2012 – 2015);

Global Restructuring Review (GRR) – Names to Know in Brazil (2020);

Lexology Index Brazil – Arbitration (2021 – 2024) Corporate Litigation (2024);

Lexology Index Global – Arbitration (2023) and Global Leader: Arbitration (2021 – 2023)