Guilherme Capuruço

Practice Areas

Litigation

Arbitration

Corporate and M&A

Contract Law

Reorganization and Bankruptcy

Career

Guilherme is a founding partner and heads the Dispute Resolution department. He has vast experience tackling highly complex litigation, as well as sophisticated commercial arbitration cases involving companies and individuals. Guilherme’s expertise stands out in matters relating to corporate law, bankruptcy and restructuring law, business law, civil liability, contract law, credit collection, expropriations, public procurement and government contracts.

He has been active in many of the most relevant corporate litigation cases in Minas Gerais recently, including the ones concerning high net worth families. He has also supervised numerous complex legal due diligence, assessing and quantifying civil litigation-related risks.

Guilherme represents clients from several sectors, such as construction, steel, mining, medical laboratory, telecommunications, energy, private pension, real estate and real estate financing, health fund, banking, insurance, and agribusiness.

Guilherme is also a Dispute Resolution professor at the LL.M. Program of IBMEC.

Professional Memberships

- Recommended arbitrator by "Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem Especializada (CAMES);

- Member of the Corporate Law Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB – Minas Gerais).

Publications

Guilherme writes regularly for the Brazilian magazine Capital Aberto’s section on legislation and stock exchange (Legislação & Mercados).

Work Highlights

- Advising a family group consisting of the successors of Ajax Corrêa Rabello on one of the most significant and high-value corporate disputes in Minas Gerais

- Advising Horizonte Minerals, Plc. on the mineral easement lawsuits of a multi-billion reais mining project in the state of Pará.

- Representing BTS Properties Empreendimentos Imobiliários S/A in a complex, multi-million-dollar claim brought forth by the investment groups Autonomy and Cadillac Fairview for damages relating to the termination of a private bidding held by BTS.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Brazil

Languages Spoken

English

Education