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IMI Certified Mediator
Brazil
ICFML - Instituto de Certificação e Formação de Mediadores Lusófonos
Mediation Profile

• More than 30 years of professional and academic experience in the areas of corporate law and negotiation of contracts, with a focus during the last 4 years on negotiating agreements and mediating disputes. • Visiting researcher and assistant in the negotiation and mediation advanced education courses at the Harvard Negotiation Institute, 2013. • Professor of Corporate Law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the post-graduation course in business law at the Institute of Business Administration and Management of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (IAG – Master PUC-Rio). • Post-graduation in Economic Law from the Institute of Economic Law Studies (IEDE), under coordination of Professor José Luiz de Bulhões Pedreira and Professor Alfredo Lamy Filho. • Dispute Board Member certified by the by DRBF - The Dispute Resolution Board Foundation for acting in Service Agreements related to RIO 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. • Mediator Certified by the ICFML - Instituto de Certificação de Mediadores Lusófonos ("Portuguese Speaking Mediators Certification Institute").

Started practising mediation in mid-2013, and acted as a mediator, applying a facilitative, transformative or slightly evaluative approach - as required by the circumstance of the conflict -, in forty nine cases. These were related mainly to: Joint Venture-Construction Agreement; Joint Venture Agreement-Mining-Plant; Construction; Shareholders Agreement–Purchase and Sale of Shares; Family Heritage–Management Agreement among Brothers; Land Property–Purchase and Sale; Family Heritage–Split due to Divorce; Succession Planning–Heirs Disagreements; Private Financial Debt Renegotiation; Partnership – Quota holders and Investment Agreement–Put Option; Officers and Managers Employment Agreement Termination.

Making appropriate questions for the parties identifying the critical issues for reaching an agreement. Conquering reliability from the parties. Impartial and successful at avoiding escalation of emotional aspects. Paraphrasing appropriately for the common understandings of the parties. Making rational questions for encouraging the parties to reach a negotiated agreement. Approaching the questions and considerations in the right moment. Patient and inducing reasonable conclusions through simply making questions. Trustfulness from parties due to personal profile and professional knowledge.

Partnerships Inheritance Property Sharing Commercial Contracts Construction Real Estate Energy Arts/Entertainment

Brazilian Bar Association International Bar Association International Chamber of Commerce ICC - Brazil 'Mediation and Arbitration Brazilian Center' (Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem - CBMA) 'Brazilian Arbitration Center' (Centro Brasileiro de Arbitragem - CBAr)

Ana Maria Maia Gonçalves - info@icfml.org Andrea Maia - andrea@findresolution.com.br

Training and Education

Harvard Negotiation Institute - Program on Negotiation

'Mediation and Arbitration Brazilian Center' (Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem - 'CBMA)

Publications

'Mediation as an Instrument for Bringing Peace into the Companies' (A Mediação como Instrumento de Pacificação nas Empresas), Chapter 1.2 of 'Mediação de Conflitos' (Mediation of Conflicts); co-author with Andrea Maia and Mariana Freitas de Souza, "Jus Podium", Brazil, 2016.

Compliance

IMI Code of Professional Conduct. Ethics and Disciplinary Code of the Brazilian Bar Association.

IMI Professional Conduct Assessment Process. "Código de Ética para Mediadores do Conima". Ethics and Disciplinary Code of the Brazilian Bar Association.

Professional indemnity insurance is not offered to mediators in my jurisdiction.

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