Professional experience

Felipe Véras has extensive experience in resolving a range of commercial conflicts through arbitration and mediation. Over almost a decade, he followed corporate, contractual, engineering and infrastructure conflicts, PPP contracts with Public Administration entities, among others.

 

Education

• LL.M. in Corporate and Commercial Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – 2022;
• Masters in Commercial Law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) – 2020;
• LL.M. in Commercial Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) – 2016;
• Bachelor of Laws from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC/MG) – 2015.

 

Publications

• Author of the article “Commercial Arbitration and the fight against climate change: what role can it actually play?” LSE Law Review Blog (2022);
• Coauthor of the article “Câmara de Arbitragem do Mercado: passado, presente e futuro.” In: WALD, Arnoldo; LEMES, Selma Ferreira (orgs.), 25 anos da Lei de Arbitragem (1996 – 2021): História, legislação, doutrina e jurisprudência (Revista dos Tribunais/Thomson Reuters 2022), p. 279-298;
• Author of the article “O papel do árbitro no combate à corrupção: um problema de jurisdição?”. In: Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação Empresarial, VI Congresso Brasileiro de Arbitragem e Mediação, Ano VI, n. 8, Semestral de jul./dez. 2019;
• Author of the article “Blockchain and smart contracts: friends or foes of international commercial arbitration?”. In: MAZIERO, Franco Giovanni Mattedi (org.), International Arbitration: In the Age of the Technological Revolution (Vol. I, Lumen Juris 2019), p. 115-139;
• Author of the article “Legislação Concursal e Eficiência: um Estudo Comparado entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos da América”. In: GONÇALVES, Gláucio Maciel; ANDRADE, Érico (orgs.), Organização judiciária no direito comparado: Alemanha, Espanha, Estados Unidos da América, França, Grã-Bretanha, Itália e Portugal (Lumen Juris 2018), p. 97-118.

 

Additional Activities

• Member of CBAr – Brazilian Arbitration Committee;
• Editor of Private International Law of the LSE Law Review Blog – 2021/2022;
• Member of the Organizing Committee of the Brazilian Mediation and Arbitration CAMARB Moot – 2014/2019;
• Director of ABEArb – Brazilian Arbitration Students Association – 2018/2019.