For more than 30 years, Mauricio Almeida Prado has been working in different fields of business law. He has advised Brazilian and foreign investors in M&A and Investment Agreements (VC/PE, IPO, JV), as well as in the negotiation and renegotiation of complex commercial contracts (supply, distribution, transfer of technology, project financing and financial contracts). For the last 17 years, Mr. Almeida Prado has been working with domestic and international arbitration. He headed L.O. Baptista’s arbitration practice until December 2020, when it recorded a track record of 380 arbitration cases. He has worked both as counsel and arbitrator in a broad range of disputes (corporate, construction, energy, financial and complex commercial contracts). Mr. Almeida Prado is currently member of the Board of Directors of Lopes Brasil S/A (real estate) and of the Audit Board of São Martinho S/A (sugar and ethanol), both listed at the São Paulo Stock Market (B3 Novo Mercado). He has got a PhD from the University of Paris X (2001) and two LLMs in International Law (University of Sao Paulo -1995 - and University of Paris X - 1997). Furthermore, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Paris II (2009 – 2010) and at the Columbia Law School (New York – 2017). He is the author of the books “Le hardship dans droit des contrats internationaux”, Paris/Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2003, and “Contrato Internacional de Transferência de Tecnologia”, Sao Paulo, Liv. do Advogado, 1997. Mr. Almeida Prado is fluent in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.