Disseting Opinions in Arbitration Tribunals

Dissenting Opinions in Arbitration Tribunals
Date: 16 October 2024, 3 PM
Event: Free and in-person
Event organizer: The Chamber of Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration CIESP/FIESP

Panel organizers:
• João Vitor Candido F Costa
• Lilian E. M. Bertolani
• Maria Roseli Candido Costa

Institucional support:
• Bodenheimer
• Canal Arbitragem
• Candido Costa & Cancio Advogados Associados

Speakers:
• Adriana Braghetta
President of the Market Arbitration Chamber (CAM B3) in São Paulo, with Francisco Satiro.

She is a professor of arbitration and international contracts at FGV Law in São Paulo.

PhD from the University of São Paulo Law School, where she obtained her master’s and

bachelor’s degrees. She has a lato sensu specialization in Economics and Business Law

from FGV-Fundação Getulio Vargas. Member of the Advisory Board of the International

Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), of which she was Vice-President during the

 2014-2017 term and member of the Governing Board from 2012 to 2023. Member of the

International Arbitration Committee of the International Law Association (ILA), of which

she was a member of the Board of the Brazilian Branch from 2000 to 2013. She was President

of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr) during the 2009-2013 term, of which she is

currently a member of the Advisory Board. Former member of the CAM-CCBC Advisory Board,

the CMA CIESP/FIESP Thematic Board, and the AMCHAM Advisory Board, among others.

Visiting professor at Sciences Po’s LLM Program on Transnational Arbitration & Dispute

Settlement (TADS – 2024, Paris). In 2013, she was a member of the Legal Commission of Jurists

invited by the Federal Senate to review the Brazilian Arbitration Act. She has written several

academic articles and is the author of the book “The Importance of the Arbitration Seat:

a view from Brazil” (“A Importância da Sede da Arbitragem: visão a partir do Brasil”, not

yet translated into English), published by Renovar in 2010.

• Rupert Choat KC has specialised in construction, engineering, PFI/PPP, energy and similar

 disputes since 1997. He has worked on disputes concerning projects in over 50 jurisdictions

 (including Brazil and nearly all of the jurisdictions in the Middle East). The majority of those

disputes were governed by the local law. Rupert has a particular interest in comparative

 construction law. He is contributing editor for Global Arbitration Review’s Construction

 Arbitration which compares the laws of different jurisdictions on common construction

 law issues. Rupert is an experienced advocate from the English Court of Appeal to arbitration

venues around the world. He practises as an arbitrator and has sat in ICC, LCIA, DIAC, SCC,

Finnish Chamber of Commerce and ad hoc arbitrations. Rupert is also a CEDR-accredited

mediator. Rupert teaches from time to time at King’s College, London on the Construction

 Law & Dispute Resolution MSc course.

Vânia Wongtschowski – moderator
Vânia Wongtschowski Kleiman works as an arbitrator and lawyer in domestic and international

arbitration disputes. She is a partner at Wongtschowski Kleiman Advogados, a boutique law

 firm specializing in complex conflict resolution. She holds a master’s degree in civil law from PUC-SP and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.