With extensive experience in high-stakes legal proceedings, Bermudes Advogados frequently appearing before the Supreme Federal Court on major test cases. The team’s contentious expertise includes administrative disputes in pensions, motor insurance, and life insurance. Insurers, reinsurers, and industry organisations regularly instruct the firm, which also handles corporate and regulatory matters, including policy drafting, distribution agreements, and bancassurance arrangements. Litigation specialists Guilherme Valdetaro Mathias and Marcio Vieira Souto Costa Ferreira jointly lead a team that delivers ‘smart and strategic solutions’.

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  • ‘A firm that handles complex issues, and delivers smart and strategic solutions.'

Key clients

  • União Nacional das Instituições de Autogestão em Saúde - Unidas
  • Cnseg
  • Fenasaude
  • Fenaseg
  • Fenaprevi
  • Seguradora Líder Dpvat
  • IESS - Instituto De Estudos De Saúde Suplementar
  • Bradesco Seguros
  • Bradesco Auto Re
  • Bradesco Saúde
  • Bradesco Vida E Previdência
  • Irb Brasil Re
  • Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Brasil Seguros
  • Sulamérica Seguros
  • Qualicorp
  • Caixa Seguros
  • Zurich Minas Brasil Seguros e Zurich Santander Brasil Seguros e Previdência
  • Chubb Seguros
  • Unimed Seguros
  • Berkley Brasil Seguros

Work highlights

  • Representing Fenasaúde – Federação Nacional de Saúde Suplementar in a case before the Superior Court of Justice (STJ).
  • Defending Chubb in a dispute brought by Anglo American.
  • Assisting Berkley Brasil Seguros in filing an injunctive relief to prevent Aneel from executing the full value of the insurance policy without first assessing the damages incurred by Aneel.

Lawyers

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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Marcio Vieira Souto Costa Ferreira, Guilherme Valdetaro