The highly specialised insurance group at Chalfin, Goldberg & Vainboim Advogados provides extensive advisory and litigation support to leading domestic and international insurers and reinsurers. The team, which is praised for its ‘excellent legal technical knowledge’, ’personalised services’ and ‘multidisciplinary advice’, has experience across various insurance lines and industries including energy, agriculture, logistics, maritime and financial services. Strategic litigation, D&O and infrastructure claims feature heavily on the firm’s portfolio, which is also populated by mandates related to regulatory and commercial advice for product and business launches. Ilan Goldberg, one of the founding partners, boasts over two decades of experience in contentious and non-contentious insurance matters. Other key practitioners include litigation partner Thiago Junqueira, Renato Chalfin, a key contact for non-contentious work, Gustavo de Medeiros Melo, who focuses on insurance disputes, and Rodrigo Gomes De Sousa, a name to note for loss adjustment. Guilherme Bernardes stands out at the associate level.
Testimonials
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‘Excellent legal technical knowledge, personalised services, great insight into the insurance and reinsurance market, agility in resolving matters and ability to provide multidisciplinary advice.’
‘I would like to highlight the names of Ilan Goldberg, Renato Chalfin, Gustavo Melo and Thiago Junqueira, who have extensive knowledge and manage to provide fast service with technical quality.’
Key clients
Chubb Seguros
Prudential
Work highlights
- Representing FenaPrevi, Brazil's national private pension and life association, in the drafting of the new regulatory framework for life insurance in Brazil.
- Representing Icatu Seguros in a series of cases before the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice.