Biography: Arbitration

Adriana Braghetta is a partner of the Brazilian Law firm L O Baptista Schmidt Valois Miranda Ferreira Agel Advogados (www.lob-svmfa.com.br) where she co-heads the arbitration department with Luiz Olavo Baptista and Mauricio Prado. She has almost 20 years of experience in litigation and national and international arbitration acting as counsel and as arbitrator. Her practice covers civil, commercial and corporate cases in a wide range of industries (for example, energy, construction, real estate, software, pharmaceuticals, banking, oil and gas).

She received her law degree at the University of São Paulo-USP School of Law in 1993. She obtained her PhD in 2008 at USP after a Lato Sensu post graduation in 2001 from FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV of São Paulo and a Master of Laws (LLM) obtained in 2000 at USP. She teaches arbitration and international contracts at GVLaw/SP and other institutions. She frequently publishes articles about arbitration and is the author of the book A Importância da Sede da Arbitragem: Visão a partir do Brasil, (The Importance of the Place of Arbitration: A Brazilian Perspective).

She is the president of CBAR - the Brazilian arbitration committee (www.cbar.org.br), a well recognised academic institution that hosted the ICCA 2010. She is also a member of the international arbitration committee of the ILA. Member of the ICC arbitration committee and ICC Latin-American arbitration committee. Member of the ICDR Board of Advisers for Latin America.Coordinator of the young arbitrators committee of the CCBC Brazil-Canadian Chamber of Commerce Center, among others.

Adriana Braghetta is fluent in Portuguese, English and French and has good knowledge of Spanish.