Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados

Litigation / Arbitration

Partner – Litigation / Arbitration

Antonio Celso Pugliese is one of Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados founding partners, managing partner since 2018 and the head of the Litigation and Arbitration practices. With more than 20 years of experience, Antonio focuses on complex commercial crisis and litigation challenges, including high profile cases in Brazil. He has wide-ranging experience representing clients in trials, class actions and arbitrations for companies in all areas of industries.

Antonio is recognized as one of the leading dispute resolution lawyers in Brazil by Chambers Brazil, Chambers Latin America and Chambers Global. “He is perceived as a knowledgeable and proficient lawyer. He is well versed in class actions, financial administration disputes and contract enforceability issues” (Chambers Latin America). “Clients note his strategic thinking and peers describe him as "creative, committed and extremely hands-on” (Chambers Global). He is also considered one of the most admired dispute resolution lawyers in Brasil by Análise Advocacia.

Portuguese and English.

Arbitrator at International Chamber of Economic and Commercial Arbitration of China – CIETAC, 2004; Member of the Instituto dos Advogados de São Paulo – IASP; Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Law School, New York, 2004; Assistant, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo – USP, 2003; Member of International Bar Association – IBA; Arbitrator of Arbitration Chamber CBMA (Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem); Member of the Bar Association Arbitration Comission.

Georgetown University, 2014, Georgetown Leadership Program; Fundação Dom Cabral, 2013, Senior Management Development Program; Universidade de São Paulo – USP, 2003, Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Civil Law; Universidade de São Paulo – USP, 1997, Bachelor of Laws (J.D.).