Schedule
Young Event
3:00 p.m. | Panel I:New entrepreneurship, middle market and arbitration: startups, accelerators, investors and other players
Moderator: Vitor Silveira Vieira
Speakers: Clarissa Luz, Hafez Virjee, Giovani Ravagnani
4:30 p.m. | Panel II:Arbitration and ESG: the impacts of climate litigation, human rights and new corporate governance on arbitration
Moderator: Zora Lyra
Speakers: Lucas Diniz, Elis Wendpap, Clara Serva
Main Event
6:00 p.m. | Opening remarks by the President of CBAr: André Abbud
6:20 p.m. | Opening Lecture:The role and importance of arbitration in resolving corporate disputes
Speaker:Nelson Eizirik
7:00 p.m. | Book Launch: ‘Brazilian Arbitration Committee and Arbitration in Brazil: A work commemorating the 20th anniversary of CBAr
Organizers:Giovanni Nanni, Karina Riccio and Lucas Diniz (Editora Almedina)
Side Event
07:15 AM | Breakfast on the “different diversities” in practice: current initiatives and challenges in the arbitration market
| 9:00 AM | Panel I: Corporate arbitration: between substantive law and procedural law |
Moderator: Valeria Galindez
Topic: Judicial protections prior to corporate arbitration
Speaker: Eduardo Pellegrinelli
Topic: Dissolution of companies and determination of assets in arbitration
Speaker: Paula Andrea Forgioni
Topic: The problem of indivisible legal relationships: third-party intervention, joining of proceedings, appointment of arbitrators, effectiveness and authority of the award
Speaker: Karina Goldberg
| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM | Panel II: Disputes involving M&A contracts |
Moderator: Julian Chediak
Topic: Grounds for liability: breach of R&W, error, intent, fault in contrahendo, redhibitory defect etc..
Speaker: Gabriel Buschinelli
Topic: Duty to inform and burden of self-reporting: due diligence and sandbagging
Speaker: Rodrigo Octávio Broglia Mendes
Topic: Disputes involving price adjustments and earn-outs
Speaker: Jennifer Permesly
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 3:00 p.m. | In-person and simultaneous workshops (roundtables) |
| Room 1: Arbitration and capital markets | Room 2: Negotiation bindingness in M&A disputes |
General Rapporteurs: Lie Uema do Carmo and Pablo Renteria
Subtopics: 1. Third-party intervention and tribunal formation (Pedro Martini) 2. The cost of arbitration and access to justice (Guilherme Setoguti) 3. Arbitration and public civil action for liability for damages to the market (Ana Carolina Weber) 4. The new CVM resolution on the disclosure of corporate demands (Gustavo Gonzalez) 5. The binding of ADR holders to the arbitration clause (Renato Coutinho) | General Rapporteurs: Jorge Cesa and Aline Terra Subtopics: 1. Pre-negotiation documents, progressive formation and bindingness (Renata Steiner) 2. Pre-contractual liability and arbitration (Fábio Floriano Melo Martins) 3. Between the preliminary contract and the main contract: degrees of bindingness, formation of the negotiating discipline and the resolution of antagonisms (Fabio Alem) 4. Arbitration agreement, negotiation phase and subjective extension to the non-signatory party (Guilherme Recena)
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| 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Coffee break |
| 17h00 | In-person and simultaneous workshops (roundtables) | |
| Room 1: Arbitration and investment funds | Room 2: Corporate arbitration and liability |
General Rapporteurs:Alexandre Rangel and Luciana Dias Subtopics: 1. The statutory arbitration clause and its effects on FIP unitholders (Gabriela Codorniz) 2. Liability of the fund manager and administrator (Milena Donato Oliva) 3. The limitation of liability of investment fund shareholders (Felipe Hanzmann) 4. The extent of the arbitrators’ duty of disclosure (Juliana Botini) | General Rapporteurs:Sheila Neder Cerezetti, Ivo Waisberg and Fernando Kuyven. Subtopics: 1. Disregard of legal personality (Márcio Guimarães) 2. Conflicts of interest (Mariana Conti Craveiro) 3. Quantification of damages (Carlos D. Albuquerque Braga) 4. Subjective extent of the arbitration agreement between controlled and controlling companies (Henrique Barbosa) |
Parallel Event
07:15| CEAAP Meeting – Center for Studies on Arbitration with Public Administration”
9:00 am | Special Panel: Economic Scenario and Corporate Law
Marcos Lisboa
Discussor: Paulo Cezar Aragão
| 10:00 am | Panel III: The Liability of Shareholders and Administrators in Arbitration |
Moderator: José Alexandre Tavares Guerreiro
Topic: Abuse of Minority
Speaker: Ana Frazão
Topic: The Controlling Shareholder’s Liability Action
Speaker: Eduardo Secchi Munhoz
Topic: The action of the directors’ liability
Speaker: Marcelo Vieira von Adamek
| 11:30 | Panel IV: Confidentiality versus publicity in corporate arbitration |
Moderator: Marcelo Barbosa
Topic: The importance of confidentiality in arbitration in business disputes
Speaker: Olivier Caprasse
Topic: Publicly-held companies: duty to inform vs. confidentiality
Speaker: Otavio Yazbek
Topic: Publicity of arbitration awards: arbitration jurisprudence?
Speaker: Viviane Muller Prado
