Mrs Helena Abdo > Cescon Barrieu > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Cescon Barrieu Offices
Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima
949 - Pinheiros
SAO PAULO - SP
05426 - 100
Brazil
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Mrs Helena Abdo
Work Department
Dispute Resolution
Position
Partner
Career
She represents several national and foreign companies, investors, multinationals and investment funds before state courts, arbitration and mediation chambers, administrative bodies and class entities. She has extensive experience in all matters related to procedural law and civil law, as well as advice on conducting business, acting in collective processes, public procurement, crisis management and cases considered delicate and with a high level of repercussion in the media.
Languages
Portuguese, English and Italian
Memberships
Bar Admission: Brazil
Arbitrator of CBMA – Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration and also of CAMCA-OAB – the Chamber of Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration of the Commission of Law Firms of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo branch.
Visiting professor at Fordham University between 2019/2020 and works as a volunteer assistant professor of undergraduate and graduate courses in Civil Procedural Law at University of São Paulo.
Member of the Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law (IBDP), of the Publications Committee of the Center for Advanced Studies of Procedural Law (CEAPRO), of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr).
Education
She holds a degree in Law from Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and a postgraduate degree from Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy. She also holds a Master’s and PhD degree in Procedural Law from Universidade of São Paulo (USP).
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- City focus - Salvador > Leading firms
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Natural resources and regulation
- TMT: Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition and antitrust
- City focus - Brasilia > Government relations
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Projects and infrastructure
- Transport: Shipping
- Compliance
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Dispute resolution
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Labour and employment
- Real estate
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Venture capital
- Environment
- Public law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT: Media
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- White-collar crime and investigations
- TMT: Telecoms