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Experience

Specialist in dispute resolution with focus in court litigation and arbitration. Widely experienced in litigation before the Superior Court, as well as Federal and State Courts, and in domestic and international arbitrations.

In matters related to Cross-Border Litigation, Marco acts together with foreign firms in transnational lawsuits and arbitration proceedings that develop before more than one jurisdiction.

Represents clients in a wide range of industries and businesses, with emphasis in infrastructure (energy and telecom), beverages, logistics, Payment Methods, and pharmaceutics. Also has a strong reputation in TMT (media and entertainment), representing clients before the Brazilian Advertising Self-Regulation Council.

Marco is a member of several associations and legal institutes, such as the Brazilian Civil Procedure Institute (IBDP), the São Paulo Lawyers Institute (IASP), the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAR) and the Brazilian Institute of Construction Law (IBDiC).

Member of the judgment panel of the Ethics and Discipline Court (TED) of the Brazilian Bar Association (São Paulo Section) since 2021.

Education

Law degree in PUC-SP (2002). Masters (2010) and PhD (2023) in Civil Procedure Law in PUC-SP.

Marco has also participated in the Orientation in US Law Program organized by the University of Southern California (2005) and in the Leadership Program presented by Harvard Law School (2015).

Awards

Individual mentions in the legal publication “Análise Advocacia” as a reference in Logistics (2016) and Pharmaceutics (2017).
Individual recommendation on the Legal 500 Latin America Guide – 2016, 2017, 2018.
Individual recommendation on the “Arbitration- Brazil”, published by Leaders League – 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022.

Languages

English and Italian

Publishing

Author of the book “International Competence” (Editora Saraiva, 2011) and co-author of the book “Comments to the Code of Civil Procedure” (Araken de Assis, George Salomão Leite and Angélica Arruda Alvim, Saraiva, 2016, arts. 42 to 63).

Author of several articles published in books and legal magazines, including:

“Arbitration Agreement and Necessary Joinder: Detachment of Signatories” (Process Review No. 341, 2023);

“Collegial Deliberation Techniques and Arbitration: A Necessary Dialogue” (Process Review No. 332, 2022);

“Procedural legal business and the power to judge: objective limits of procedural conventions” (Revista de Processo nº 324, 2022);

“Attorney fees in the revised CPC” (In: Cassio Scarpinella Bueno – ed., Controversial Aspects of the New Execution. 1st edition, RT, 2008);

“STJ consolidates its understanding of the necessary joinder of ANATEL in Collective Actions” (Revista de Direito de Informática e Telecomunicações nº 10, 2011);

“The Reasonable Duration of the Process and the Reforms in the Procedural Law” (In: Eduardo Lamy – ed., Civil Process in Motion, Editora Conceito, 2013).

Contact

(11) 3135-7830
(61) 3181-0960

São Paulo

Av. Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek, 360, 17° andar
Vila Nova Conceição – São Paulo – SP – 04543-000

Brasília

Setor Bancário Sul, Quadra 2, nº 12, Bloco E, Sala 206
Asa Sul – Brasília – DF – 70070-120