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Ricardo Junqueira de Andrade
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Experience
Ricardo has over 24 years’ experience in civil litigation, administrative litigation and business arbitration, representing companies from various sectors across the infrastructure, energy, logistics, mining, transportation, real estate, banking and pharmaceutical industries.
He has a strong background in advising and conducting arbitration procedures and civil and corporate lawsuits, as well as in advising on commercial contracts, public concessions and public-private partnerships.
Ricardo is a professor of ‘Negotiation Techniques’ in the Brazilian Postgraduate Program on Commercial Arbitration and Consensus Methods in Conflict Resolution at Rio de Janeiro’s Pontifícia Universidade Católica. He is also a member of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr), the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law (Columbia Law School) and the International Chamber of Commerce.
Education
Bachelor of Laws – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ);
Postgraduate Degree in Civil and Constitutional Law – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ);
Master of Laws (LL.M.) – Columbia Law School, USA.
Recognitions
Chambers Brazil – Dispute Resolution: Rio de Janeiro (2024);
Latin Lawyer 250 – Litigation (2019 – 2025);
Análise Advocacia – Arbitration (2020), Business contracts (2017), Trade (2018 – 2020) and Rio de Janeiro (2017 – 2020);
Benchmark Litigation (2019 – 2021);
Lexology Index Global – Investigations (2019 – 2022).
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