Professional experience

Marcel holds an LL.M. in International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration from New York University (2019), a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of São Paulo (2017), and an LL.B. from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2013). He also studied at Sciences Po in Paris (2012). He has over a decade of experience in domestic and international arbitration and complex civil and commercial litigation, with a practice spanning commercial contracts, construction and infrastructure, energy, insurance and reinsurance, enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, and U.S. discovery proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 in aid of foreign proceedings.

Marcel spent a significant portion of his career in New York, focusing on international arbitration and litigation before U.S. courts. His practice involved cross-border disputes across the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Marcel is admitted to practice in New York and Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, with professional working proficiency in French.

 

Education

• LL.M. in International Business Regulation, Litigation and Arbitration, New York University School of Law – NYU, 2019

   

• Master’s Degree in Law, University of Sao Paulo – USP, 2017

   

• LL.B., Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo – PUC-SP, 2013

 

Publications

• Oxford Health Plans LLC v. Sutter (2013), in U.S. Supreme Court Precedents on Arbitration: Shaping the American Arbitration Law and Practice, Boston: Brill (2025), pp. 292–317 (coautor)/(co-author).
• Tentatives et Perspectives de Régulation du Financement du Contentieux par des Tiers – Approche Comparée, Revue Internationale de Droit Économique, 2024/2, t. XXXVIII, Bruxelles: De Boeck Supérieur (2024), pp. 67–80.
• Intervenção de terceiros em arbitragem no direito brasileiro, in Arbitragem 2 Mundos: Diálogos entre o Brasil e Portugal, São Paulo: Quartier Latin (2024), pp. 369–381.
• Financiamento de litígios e intervenção de terceiros em arbitragem, in Estudos em Homenagem a José Rogério Cruz e Tucci, Rio de Janeiro: GZ (2024), pp. 675–702.
• Comments on Article 4(1)–(2) (Limit on Multiple Roles for Arbitrators) of the Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in International Investment Disputes, New York International Arbitration Center – NYIAC, submetido à 43^a Sessão do Working Group III da United Nations Commission on International Trade Law – UNCITRAL (2022) (coautor) / (co-author)
• NYIAC Grand Central Forum: Double-Hatting and the ICSID-UNCITRAL Draft Code of Conduct for Adjudicators in International Investment Disputes, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (2022) (coautor)/(co-author)
• Terms of Reference, Procedural Rules, and Pleadings, in CPR Corporate Counsel Practical Guide for Arbitration in Brazil, New York: International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (2022), pp. 130–143 (coautor)/(co-author).
• The Central Importance of the Seat in Online Dispute Resolution, BCDR International Arbitration Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer Law International (2021), pp. 103–120 (coautor)/(co-author).
• ICCA Survey on a Right to a Physical Hearing in International Arbitration: Reports Are Out from the U.S., Australia, Italy and Vietnam, New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Vol. 14, No. 1, Albany: New York State Bar Association (2021), pp. 63–67 (coautor)/(co-author).
• Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in International Arbitration? United States of America Report, ICCA Survey – Right to a Physical Hearing in International Arbitration, International Council for Commercial Arbitration (2020) (coautor)/(co-author).
• Impecunious Parties in International Commercial Arbitration, Arbitration International, Vol. 36, No. 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020), pp. 123–146.
• Arbitragem e Financiamento por Terceiros, São Paulo: Almedina Brasil (2020).
• New Technologies and the Legal Profession, NYU Journal of Law & Business, New York: New York University School of Law (2019).
• Limites subjetivos da sentença arbitral e legitimidade do terceiro para ajuizar ação anulatória, in A Reforma da Arbitragem, Rio de Janeiro: Forense (2016), pp. 595–628 (coautor)/(co-author).