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Paulo Magalhães Nasser

Our firm is led by Paulo Magalhães Nasser

EXPERIENCE

Paulo has extensive experience in complex judicial and arbitration litigation, representing Brazilian and multinational clients in a substantial number of cases involving construction; energy; distribution; (re)insurance; sports transactions; M&A and corporate; commercial contracts in general; and business insolvency. Paulo also acts as an arbitrator in disputes related to these matters.

Nasser has solid international experience, acquired through studies at foreign universities and professional secondments in well-regarded firms in the United States, England and Spain.

This allows him to combine technical depth, practical business approach and multiculturalism, successfully working alongside clients and co-counsels from different cultures and legal systems.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Procedural Law and Arbitration, PUC/SP, 2018

Master in Private Law, PUC/SP, 2010

Master in International Commercial Law (LL.M.), with focus in international arbitration, London School of Economics – LSE, 2011

Bachelor in Laws, PUC/SP, 2005

 

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY ABROAD

Foreign associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, New York, US

Foreign associate at Addleshaw Goddard, London, UK

 

ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES

Professor of Civil Liability in the Master’s Program in Medical Law at UNISA

Postgraduate Professor of Civil Procedural Law at PUCCamp and PUC-Rio

Co-Chair of the Editorial Board of AIJA – International Association of Young Lawyers

 

PUBLISHED BOOKS

The influence of court precedents in arbitration (Vinculações Arbitrais, Ed. Lumen Juris)

Changed circumstances in commercial contracts (Onerosidade Excessiva no Contrato Civil, Ed. Saraiva)

Ten Years of the Brazilian Civil Code: Challenges and Perspectives, as co-author (Dez Anos do Código Civil: Desafios e Perspectivas, Ed. Atlas)

Commentary to the New Brazilian Procedural Law, as co-author (Comentários ao Novo Código de Processo Civil, Ed. GEN/Forense)

Commentary to the New Brazilian Procedural Law, as co-author (Código de Processo Civil Comentado, Ed. Almedina)

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Legal 500, Arbitration and Litigation, 2022-25

Who’s Who Legal, Litigation, 2018-25

Leaders League, Arbitration, 2017-25

 

LANGUAGES

Portuguese

English

Spanish

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