Sergio Bermudes is the founder of Sergio Bermudes Law Firm. He graduated in Law from Guanabara State University Law School (re-named State University of Rio de Janeiro) and took a PhD course in the History of Roman, Canon and Portuguese Civil Procedure, at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is professor of Civil Procedure at the Pontificate Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; member of the Institute of Brazilian Lawyers, the International Association of Procedural Law, the Ibero-American Association of Procedural Law, the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law, and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He was one of the five members of the Commission appointed by the Brazilian government in 1985 to review the Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure.

He has sat as co-arbitrator and chairman in several arbitration proceedings and has represented clients in many others. He has also appeared as an expert witness before national and international arbitral tribunals and United States courts. He was appointed judge on the State of Rio de Janeiro Electoral Tribunal from 1986 through 1988.

He is the author of several books, essays and treatises on a wide range of legal issues, published in Brazil and abroad.