Trench Rossi Watanabe

Litigation

Partner

Marcio de Souza Polto is a senior partner based in São Paulo, joined the firm in 1998 and became partner in 2006. He focuses his practice on civil and commercial litigation – particularly commercial and tort litigation for global companies in the consumer products, pharmaceutical and healthcare, medical devices, chemical, automotive and IT industries. Mr. Polto chairs the Brazilian Dispute Resolution Group and the Latin America IMT – Industrial, Manufacturing and Transportation Industry Group, and is also a Steering Committee member of the Latin America Dispute Resolution Group.

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

He graduated from the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo with a degree in Law, and also holds a master’s degree (LL.M Program) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School – UPENN (Philadelphia, U.S.A).

Marcio has participated, as an organizer and/or speaker, of events/seminars directed to lawyers and clients, addressing – inter alia – the following topics:

“Pledge of Capital Quotas and Shares –Forms of judicial and extra-judicial enforcement”; “Fraud against creditors and fraud in execution lawsuits”; “Arbitration – Article 2 of Law 9.307/96 vs. Article 9 of  (LICC) – effectiveness and validity”; “The New Arbitration Law”; “The New Brazilian Civil Code”; “Execution Lawsuit and Third Party Opposition “; “Preliminary Negotiations and Pre-Contract – Effects and Legal Implications”; “Guarantees and the New Brazilian Civil Code”; “ADR – Arbitration, Mediation and Structured Negotiation”; “Common Law and Brazilian Law”.

Besides, he is a full professor – currently on leave – of civil Procedural Law.