Natalia Lamas

Practice Areas

Partner specialized in arbitration, contracts and civil and corporate litigation.

Career

Prior to joining FCDG, she worked as a research assistant to the arbitration department of Shearman & Sterling in Paris and did traineeships before the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris, the arbitration department of Wilmer Hale LLP in London, Philippe Leboulanger Associés in Paris and in the Brazilian Diplomatic Mission to the World Trade Organisation in Geneva. She also worked as an associate at Nelson Eizirik Advogados, a corporate law boutique in Rio de Janeiro.

Natália holds a master’s degree in international commercial law from Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and one master’s degree in international law from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). She is also a specialist in oil and gas law from the human resources programme held before UERJ with the support of Brazil’s National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP). She obtained her bachelor’s degree in law from UERJ.

Natália teaches arbitration before several academic institutions and usually lectures on various arbitration-related matters. She has also published articles on arbitration-related issues and translated from French to Portuguese Emmanuel Gaillard’s book Aspects Philosophiques du droit de l’arbitrage international.

Practice Areas

Partner specialized in arbitration, contracts and civil and corporate litigation.

Professional Memberships

Member of the International Arbitration Institute (IAI) – Paris and of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr).

Registered with the Brazilian Bar Association, Rio de Janeiro chapter.

Experience

Post-Graduate Professor of International Arbitration at Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais – IBMEC-SP.

Lectures in several arbitration courses promoted by different institutions, as AASP and Curso Prático de Arbitragem (“CPA”).

Post-Graduate Professor of Arbitration at Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais – IBMEC-RJ from 2012 until 2019.