Tauil & Chequer Advogados

Gustavo Fernandes de Andrade is the partner responsible for the arbitration practice of Tauil & Checker Advogados in association with Mayer Brown.

Gustavo Fernandes focuses his practice on domestic and foreign legal disputes and arbitration proceedings. Acts as an arbitrator in ad-hoc and institutional commercial arbitrations.

Gustavo has more than 20 years of experience representing clients before federal and state courts, as well as in domestic and international arbitrations administered under the aegis of the rules of the main arbitration chambers in the world, including CCI, LCIA, CAM-CCBC , CIESP/FIESP, FGV, CAMARB, CBMA, as well as ad hoc arbitration procedures and under the UNCITRAL arbitration regulation.

Trained in both civil and common law, Gustavo's experience encompasses the representation of clients in commercial and corporate disputes related to a variety of industry sectors, including intellectual property; telecommunications, oil & gas; energy; and, mainly, engineering and construction projects, for which he is nationally acclaimed for the depth of his knowledge and exceptional capabilities on this subject matter.

Gustavo also advises and represents clients in ancillary arbitration-related lawsuits, including recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards applications with the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil.

He holds an LL.M degree in International Arbitration from the University of Cambridge and an LL.M degree on International Comparative Law from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

He regularly serves as tribunal chairman, sole arbitrator and party-appointed arbitrator, in the list of arbitrators of the Brazilian major arbitration chambers, namely the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CAM-CCBC); the Chamber of Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration CIESP-FIESP; the Business Arbitration Chamber of Brazil (CAMARB), where he also serves as member of the Board of Directors. He is also member to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.

Gustavo co-coordinates the Study Group on Arbitration, Mediation and State Entities of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBar) and regularly speaks in conferences and seminars on arbitration, with particular emphasis on Arbitration Involving State or State Entities and on Foreign Investment Protection, topics on which he has published several journal articles and book chapters.

Portuguese, English, Italian

Cambridge University, LLM

University of Pennsylvania, LLM

Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), BA in Law