Dispute Resolution

Dispute Resolution

The firm has a long and outstanding activity in business dispute resolution including a variety of matters and sectors.

Litigation: The firm practices in civil and corporate litigation. The firm’s litigation practice is broad and diverse, covering the simplest issues in companies’ daily activities, such as consumer claims, to more complex issues such as corporate disputes, construction contracts, commercial contracts and public civil actions. The firm also acts in judicial reorganization and bankruptcy proceedings, as well as in actions and measures for the recovery of large credits.

Arbitration: The firm acts in national and international arbitrations before the main Arbitration Chambers. We also act in homologations of foreign arbitral awards before the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice (STJ).

Cases related to international contracts, corporate disputes, construction/engineering, mergers and acquisitions are noteworthy among the recent arbitrations in which the firm participated.

Some of the main activities in the area are:


Litigation

 

  • Dispute in the insurance sector arising from the conclusion of insurance guarantee for a large export operation;
  • Recovery of large credit from stock brokerage company against investors in the Stock Exchange futures market;
  • Representation of national industry in public civil actions;
  • Corporate dispute between shareholders of a large national group;
  • Representation of a highway concession company in an action to annul arbitration proceedings;
  • Representation of a foreign creditor in the judicial recovery process of a company in the mining sector;
  • Representation of a foreign creditor bank for the seizure of a ship offered as a guarantee for a financing transaction contracted abroad;
  • Representation of a foreign shipowner before a national maritime agent hired by the ship’s charterer;
  • Representation of a Brazilian construction company in a dispute involving a construction contract with a foreign company;
  • Representation of foreign clients in international trade matters;
  • Disputes on IT and internet topics;
  • Disputes in construction and real estate development;
  • Disputes involving bidding and administrative and sanctioning processes.


Arbitration

 

  • Brazilian highway concession company and Argentine holding company in litigation arising from a corporate acquisition (M&A) transaction;
  • Corporate disputes involving the dissolution of companies and the determination of assets;
  • Litigation between shareholders of a large national group in the infrastructure and concessions sector;
  • Contractor and assembler in litigation arising from a works contract for the construction and assembly of an engineering system in the mining sector;
  • Construction company and developer in litigation over the construction of a large real estate project;
  • Logistics operator disputes with asset sellers arising from an acquisition contract (M&A);
  • Shareholders and development bank in dispute over compliance with acquisition contract partner participation;
  • Litigation between a Brazilian company and a German company regarding a partnership agreement for concession participation;
  • Homologation of an arbitration award before the STJ involving an international organization arising from a concession contract and respective execution of the approved award;
  • Homologation of an arbitration award before the STJ involving foreign trading and mining companies;
  • Arbitration between a public service concession company and an international organization regarding the construction of a bridge and provision of services for a unified border center between Brazil and Argentina.

Professionals

Sergio Zahr Filho

Partner

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Rabih Nasser 

Partner

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Salem Nasser 

Partner

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Fernando Galucci 

Consultant

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Rafael Abdouch

Associate

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Ana Elisa Bicca

Associate

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Gustavo de Oliveira

Associate

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Luísa de Almeida

Associate

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