Lawyers

Partner specialized in civil and commercial litigation, domestic and international arbitration, corporate law, administrative law and contracts.

Education

• Visiting Professor of the post graduate courses in Corporate Litigation and Corporate Law and Capital Markets at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).
• Ph.D. candidate in Corporate and Commercial Law, Universidade de São Paulo.
• Master of Laws in Commercial and Corporate Law, Universidade de São Paulo.
• Bachelor of Law, FGV Direito Rio, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).

Memberships

• Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb).
• Effective Member of the M&A and Corporate Disputes Committee of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate and Commercial Law – IBRADEMP.
• Director of the Law firms’ Center of Studies – CESA of the Rio de Janeiro branch.
• Member of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr).
• Bachelor of Laws, Fundação Getulio Vargas.

Publications, Conferences and Lectures

Book

• Antonio Pedro Garcia de Souza, Redes Empresariais: a distribuição de bens e serviços e o seu propósito comum [Business Networks], São Paulo, Quartier Latin, 2021).

Book Chapters

• Antonio Pedro Garcia de Souza, Apuração de haveres dos sócios: os caminhos da jurisprudência e a interpretação dos arts. 606 e 607 do Código de Processo Civil [Corporate and Share Appraisal in the Brazilian New Code of Civil Procedure], in Grandes temas do novo CPC: Processo Empresarial [Great Matters of the CPC: Corporate and Commercial Procedure], (Marco Aurélio Bellize et al eds. Rio de Janeiro: Juspodium, 2022).
• Antonio Pedro Garcia de Souza, O Controle judicial do contrato de financiamento celebrado com a empresa em recuperação judicial: o alcance e as limitações do novo art. 69-B da lei nº 11.101 de 2005 [Judicial Control of DIP Financing Agreements], in Processo Societário, Vol IV [Corporate Procedure, IV], (Flavio Luiz Yarshell et al eds., São Paulo, Quartier Latin, 2021).
• Antonio Pedro Garcia de Souza, Garantias autônomas à primeira demanda [First Demand Guarantees], in 18 anos do Código Civil [18 years of the Brazilian Civil Code] (Jorge Cesa Ferreira da Silva et al eds., Quartier Latin, 2021).
• Marcelo Roberto Ferro & Antonio Pedro Garcia de Souza. International Post-M&A Arbitrations in Brazil, in: SESTER, Peter (Ed.). International Arbitration: Law and Practice in Brazil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Articles

• Antonio Pedro Garcia de Souza & Raphael Cunha Figueredo, Árbitro de emergência: conceito, desenvolvimento e adequação [Emergency Arbitrator: Concept and Development]. In Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem, Vol. 16 (2019), pp. 77-95.
• Karina Goldberg Brito, Antonio Pedro Garcia de Souza & Patricia Klien Veja, Provisional Measures for the Enforcement of Shareholders’ Agreements under Brazilian Law, in Financier Worldwide, July 2018.
• Lecturer and speaker in international and domestic institutions regarding corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration.

Languages

Portuguese | English | French