Professional experience

Rafael represents clients in domestic and international arbitration, mediation, and negotiation proceedings on complex disputes regarding construction
contracts, M&A transactions, commercial partnerships, real estate, banking, oil & gas, energy, among others. Regularly sits as arbitrator in Brazil. Former
Deputy Counsel at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, in Paris.

Professor of arbitration at the Graduate Program (FGV LAW) at Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo (FGV DIREITO SP).
Sits as an arbitrator and mediator and is listed in several Brazilian chambers.

Author of the books “A inadmissibilidade das medidas antiarbitragem no direito brasileiro”, “Árbitro e Direito: o julgamento do mérito na Arbitragem”,
“The Brazilian Arbitration Act: A Case Law Guide” (with Andre Abbud and Daniel Levy, Kluwer Wolters, 2019), among other national and international
publications.

 

Education

• PhD in Procedural Law from the University of São Paulo.
• LL.M. from New York University.
• Master in Procedural Law from the University of São Paulo.
• Bachelor degree from the University of São Paulo.

 

Recognitions

Highlighted by Chambers and Partners, LACCA Approved, Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500, Leaders League and Análise Advocacia.

 

Associations

• Director of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr).
• Member of Board of Directors of CPR.
• Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA).
• Listed at Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC), Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem Empresarial – Brasil (CAMARB), Câmara de
  Mediação e Arbitragem ACIF (CMAA), Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem das Eurocâmaras (CAE), Câmara de Arbitragem e Mediação da
  Federação das Indústrias do Paraná (CAMFIEP), Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem da Italcam (CAMITAL), Câmara de Mediação e
  Arbitragem da Sociedade Rural Brasileira (CARB), Instituto de Mediação e Arbitragem do Brasil (IMAB), Câmara de Arbitragem e Mediação de
  Santa Catarina (CAMESC) and Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem da Associação Comercial do Paraná (ARBITAC).