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Sílvia Julio Bueno de Miranda

Partner

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Arbitration | Consulting specialized in Disputes (Prevention and Resolution) | Contracts | Mediation

Since 2002, she has represented clients in domestic and international arbitrations and mediations across Latin America, Europe, the United States, and Africa, in disputes involving corporate transactions, construction contracts, infrastructure, energy sector conflicts, real estate, agribusiness, contracts with public authorities, among others. She combines this practice with dispute prevention as well as the negotiation and drafting of complex contracts. Sílvia also serves as an arbitrator.

Education

  • MBA Exchange Program, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.
  • Specialization in Business from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/SP).
  • LL.M. from the University of Michigan, United States.
  • Post-graduated in Arbitration & Mediation from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/SP).
  • Post-graduated in Corporate Law from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/SP).
  • LL.B. from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP).

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • English

Relevant Cases

  • ICC International Arbitration. Languages: Spanish and Portuguese. Dispute between BNDES and an Ecuadorian state-owned company, related to an export financing contract. Amount in dispute: USD 240 million.
  • UNCITRAL International Arbitration. Languages: Spanish and Portuguese. Dispute based in Madrid between an African state-owned company and a multinational related to a diamond exploration contract. Amount in dispute: USD 100 million.
  • LCIA International Arbitration. Language: English. London-based dispute between an African state-owned company and a multinational concerning project finance contract. Amount in dispute: £ 170 million.
  • CAM-CCBC Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Disputes related to the construction and operation of renewable energy production plants. Amount in dispute: BRL 450 million.
  • CAMARB Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a PPP contract, between the company responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of the structure and the public administration. Amount in dispute: BRL 400 million.
  • CIESP-FIESP Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to a PPP contract in the basic sanitation sector related to sewage treatment, involving a breach of contract by the government. Amount in dispute: BRL 250 million.
  • CAM-CCBC Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute involving multiple contracts related to a stock purchase and sale transaction regarding default by the parties, stock pricing, earn-out payment and return guarantees. Amount in dispute: BRL 250 million.
  • ICC Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute regarding liability for the payment of municipal taxes related to the construction of a hydroelectric power plant.
  • CAM-CCBC Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to economic-financial rebalancing of a PPP contract involving a sanitation company.
  • FGV Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Dispute related to claim of excessive burden in energy purchase and sale contracts in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • ICC Domestic Arbitration. Language: Portuguese. Corporate dispute arising from purchase and sale agreements of quotas of several companies, including discussions related to liability for environmental liabilities and other contingencies, substitution of guarantees, inventories, amounts overcharged for tax substitution, bonus credits owed by third parties, and refund of amount withheld to guarantee contingencies.
  • JAMS International Mediation. Language: English. Mediation in New York regarding a corporate dispute involving contracts for the purchase and sale of quotas/shares of companies based in the United States and in Mexico and various related contracts, for discussion of each party’s liabilities under such contracts.
  • Consulting. Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, and English. For over 10 years advising multinational company in the food sector in the drafting, negotiation, and management of various types of strategic contracts for the company and in the prevention of litigation.
  • Pre-litigation consulting. Language: Portuguese. Issue related to a contract for the assignment of assets and rights of a company in the banking sector. Amount under discussion: BRL 4.5 billion.
  • Pre-litigation consulting. Language: Portuguese. Risk assessment to assist client in dispute related to take or pay of gas supply contracts. Amount in dispute: BRL 300 million.
  • Pre-litigation consulting. Language: English, Portuguese, Spanish. Analysis of risks related to a dispute arising from an EPC contract for the construction of a gas pipeline. Amount in dispute: US$ 311 million.
  • Pre-litigation advice. Language: English. Issue related to breaches of contract in a contract to provide services and supply electromechanical equipment and systems for a hydroelectric power plant. Amount under discussion: BRL 225 million.
  • Consulting. Languages: English and Portuguese. Strategic consulting to multinational technology company on privacy and personal data protection aspects related to the introduction of new virtual/augmented reality technology in Brazil, including advice to ensure project compliance with LGPD.
  • International project coordination. Languages: English and Portuguese. Coordinated, in Washington D.C. and Luanda, World Bank sponsored Project for Reform of Angola’s Public Procurement Law.
  • Implementation of Anti-Corruption Compliance Programs. Languages: English and Portuguese. Planned, coordinated, and conducted training in Brazilian and multinational companies.
    Corporate Consulting. Coordinated, conducted, and negotiated corporate transactions and due diligence processes.
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Recognitions

She is recognized for her arbitration practice by GAR100, Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal), Leaders League, Latin Lawyer, and The Legal 500. She is included in the roster of arbitrators of the following institutions: CAM-CCBC, CAMARB, AMCHAM, and ARBITAC.​

Sílvia is frequently invited to speak at leading arbitration conferences in Brazil and abroad, as well as to lecture on Arbitration at universities, such as in the postgraduate program at Mackenzie University. She has also contributed articles to major publications on arbitration in recent years.

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Associations

  • Vice-Chair of the ICC Brazil Arbitration and ADR Commission (2024–2026), after having led the “Arbitration and Energy” Task Force of this Commission (2023–2025).
  • Sílvia is one of the four members of the ICC Brazilian Committee’s Nominations Commission, responsible for proposing candidates to the ICC Court of Arbitration whenever the Court needs to appoint an arbitrator from Brazil (2024–2026).
  • She has been appointed for a second term as Delegate of the ICC Global Commission on Arbitration and ADR – Paris, representing Brazil (2024–2027).
  • Member of the Task Force “Addressing Issues of Corruption in International Arbitration”, of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR – Paris.
  • Member of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr).