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Mariana Cattel Alves

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Arbitration | Mediation | Consulting specialized in Litigation | Negotiation of Complex Contracts

Since 2004, Mariana has been working with arbitration as an attorney, arbitrator and secretary to arbitral tribunals in domestic and international arbitration proceedings.

She is co-author with Professor Luiz Olavo Baptista of Arbitration in Brazil, published in The International Arbitration Review: Brazil, London: Law Business Research, 2010 to 2017 (1st to 8th editions).

Education

  • LL.M. in International Commercial Law, Contracts and Dispute Resolution from the University of Turin and the International Training Centre of ILO.
  • Specialization in Arbitration and Mediation from Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
  • Specialization in Arbitration from Cornell Law School, in cooperation with Sorbonne, in France.
  • Bachelor of Laws from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP).

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • English
  • French

Relevant Cases

  • CAMARB Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a public-private partnership contract. Amount in dispute: BRL 400 million.
  • Domestic arbitration CAM-CCBC. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a consortium contract to build and operate thermoelectric plants powered by biomass, involving a company of the sugar and ethanol sector and a company of the energy sector. Amount in dispute: BRL450 million.
  • Domestic arbitration CAM-CCBC. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to the economic-financial rebalancing of a public-private partnership contract involving a sanitation company and a municipal autarchy. Amount in dispute: BRL 32 million.
  • ICC domestic arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to the assignment and acquisition contract of a credit portfolio involving an Investment Fund and a Telecommunications company. Amount in dispute: BRL 1,6 billion.
  • CIESP/FIESP domestic arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to an electromechanical assembly services contract involving companies from the construction industry. Amount in dispute: BRL 207 million.
    International ad hoc arbitration (UNCITRAL rules). Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to foreign investments in an African country. Amount in dispute: USD 1 billion.
  • CAM-CCBC Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a purchase and sale agreement of shares of a company in the sanitation sector.
  • CIESP/FIESP domestic arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to the assessment of liabilities for contractual breaches, delays and rescission in the scope of a unit price contract for the execution and implementation works of a highway. Amount in dispute: BRL 175 million.
  • ICC domestic arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a highway construction and implementation contract involving the public administration. Amount in dispute: BRL 50 million.
  • CIESP/FIESP domestic arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a highway construction and implementation contract, involving the public administration. Amount in dispute: BRL 200 million.
  • ICC Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a supply contract of goods and services for the implementation and operation of a hydroelectric power plant.
  • ICC Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to the non-fulfillment of obligations arising from a purchase and sale contract of companies of the fuel supply sector.
  • CAM-CCBC Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to contracts for the generation of energy through a thermoelectric power plant.
  • CPA Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute based in Madrid between a public company and a European company, related to investment contracts and concession of mining rights.
  • CAESP Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a commercial establishment purchase contract.
  • ICC Arbitration. Language: Portuguese/English. Dispute related to a motor vehicle concession contract involving parties of different nationalities. Amount in dispute: BRL 300 million.
  • CIESP/FIESP Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a railway line construction contract. Amount in dispute: BRL 100 million.
  • Provisional Arbitrator Procedure. Language: Portuguese. Provisional Arbitrator procedure to obtain emergency remedy related to the fulfillment of obligations under a railway construction contract.
  • Provisional Arbitrator Procedure. Language: Portuguese. Provisional Arbitrator procedure filed for obtaining emergency remedy related to the fulfillment of obligations arising from the service contract of electromechanical assembly of equipment.
  • Judicial dispute. Language: Portuguese. Judicial dispute involving motor vehicle concession contracts and previous arbitration related to these contracts.
  • Negotiations. Language: Portuguese. Negotiations related to a public-private partnership agreement, including reaching an agreement regarding disputed items.
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Recognitions

Recognized as Arbitration Future Leader by Who’s Who Legal 2021.

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Associations

  • Member of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (Cbar), of which she is Regional Coordinator (São Paulo).
  • Member of the lists of arbitrators at: CAM-CCBC, Mediation and Arbitration Chamber FIESP, Chamber of Mediation, Conciliation and Arbitration of OAB / SP, Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem (CBMA) and Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem da Associação Comercial do Paraná (ARBITAC).