Rafael Bicca Machado

Practice Areas

Corporate Law, M&A and Investment Funds

Sanitation

Startups

Career

Rafael Bicca Machado heads the corporate department and is responsible for the legal and strategic conduction of Mergers and Aqcuisitions, well as other commercial transactions, including the reorganization of companies and renegotiation of debts. He also has ample experience in complex corporate disputes (arbitration and litigation), especially in conflicts involving corporate operations.

Professional Memberships

Brazilian Bar Association (RS, SP, SC, RJ, PR, GO, ES, DF, AC, MG, PE, BA)

Special Arbitration Commission of the OAB/RS

Member of the Directing Counsel of the OAB/RS Arbitration Chamber

Portuguese Bar Association – Lisbon (OAP 62546L)

Publications

Books

The corporate arbitration in Brazil – an analysis through the new economic sociology of law. Livraria do Advogado, (2009)

The Social Function of the Law. Quartier Latin (2009)

Arbitration in Brazil – Relevant Legal Aspects (coordinator). Quartier Latin (2008)

Special Appeal – Doctrine, Jurisprudence, and Practice. Quartier Latin (2005)

Brazilian Sanitary Law (coauthor). Quartier Latin (2004)

Book Chapter

Civil procedure and arbitration. Introduction to Brazilian law. Wolters Kluwer (2011)

The “social function” of the law in the systemic perspective of Talcott. Quartier Latin (2009)

Economic analysis of civil procedure. Law and Economics in Brazil

(Org. Luciano Timm), Atlas (2014)

Awards

Languages Spoken

English (fluent)

Spanish (fluent)

Industry Sector Expertise

LL.M, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (2007)

Bachelor of Laws, Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo (1997)

Courses in the Economics College, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1995)