Sergio Bermudes

Practice Areas

Dispute Resolution: international and commercial arbitration, civil litigation.

Public law.

Career

Dispute resolution lawyer with international prominence, Sergio advises the most complex disputes before Brazil's Supreme and Superior Courts, representing relevant companies from virtually any industry, especially insurance, energy, infrastructure, and banking & finance.

Ranked top-tier in disputes by all legal rankings, Sergio is also a renowned arbitrator of national and international cases.

He frequently speaks at conferences on civil litigation, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution.

Professional Memberships

Member of IAB (Institute of Brazilian Lawyers), International Association of Procedural Law, Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law and International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Admitted to Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/RJ, OAB/SP, OAB/DF, OAB/MG, OAB/ES, OAB/RS).

Publications

Authored seven books on Civil Litigation and Procedural Rules and several articles on civil litigation, international and domestic arbitration, constitutional, administrative and civil law.

Personal

Founding partner of the firm.

Professor of Civil Litigation and Arbitration at PUC-Rio.

Former justice of the Rio de Janeiro Regional Electoral Tribunal, member of the Law Commission for the Reform of the Civil Procedure Code, and Emeritus Professor of Law at the Brazilian Faculty of Legal Science at Rio de Janeiro.

PhD from the University of Sao Paulo (USP).

LL.B from the University of the State of Guanabara.