Sergio Bermudes Law Firm regularly gets picked by the legal directors for dispute resolution in Brazil. The amount of arbitration, and especially international arbitration, that Brazilian lawyers undertake is now increasing, if from a low base. Sergio Bermudes Law Firm is a full-service firm with over 70 lawyers that is still occasionally described as a litigation boutique. The two names to know are Sergio Bermudes himself and Fabiano Robalinho Cavalcanti.

Sergio Bermudes has particular experience under ICC rules. He has sufficient respect to attract significant appointments as an arbitrator. He is at present the chair on three interlinked ICC cases. Younger partner Fabiano Robalinho Cavalcanti is dual-qualified in New York and Brazil. After completing an LLM at Harvard, he spent a year on the foreign associate programme at Debevoise & Plimpton. He also teaches private international law at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.

*The firm is also working on 11 domestic arbitrations