Associate
Maria Rita Dutra
Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Latin America & the Caribbean
Overview
Maria Rita Dutra is an associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in the São Paulo office. Maria Rita’s practice involves acting as counsel and advising clients in domestic arbitration proceedings and in court litigation in Brazil and abroad, in complex matters related to several industries, mainly in the construction and energy sectors. Maria Rita Dutra holds a Master's Degree in Procedural Civil Law and Arbitration from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is a Certified Mediator of the Portuguese Ministry of Justice.
Experience
- Represented a major international engineering company against a Brazilian oil & gas company in two ICC arbitrations concerning the construction of oil platform rigs.
- Represented a Brazilian engineering company in two CMA-FIESP arbitrations concerning the engineering and installation of two gold mine processing plants in Brazil.
- Represented a Brazilian mining company in a dispute arising out of an off-take agreement in a CAM-CCBC arbitration.
- Represented an international engineering and construction company in an CAM-CCBC arbitration concerning the construction of fertilizer plant in Brazil.
- Represented a Brazilian renewable energy company in a CAM-CCBC arbitration concerning the generation of electricity power in a sugar ethanol plant.
- Represented a major international steel and metal company in a dispute arising out of a maritime transportation agreement in an ABDM arbitration.
- Represented a mining company in a dispute arising out of an electricity power supply agreement in an FGV arbitration.
- Represented a major industrial company in a dispute arising out of an electricity power supply agreement in an FGV arbitration.
- Represented two Brazilian dairy companies in a CAM-CCBC arbitration concerning a joint-venture for the operation of dairy plants in Brazil.
- Represented two major international steel and metal companies in an FGV arbitration concerning regulatory matters of the Brazilian electricity power market.
- Represented a major international insurance company in a CAM-CCBC concerning the responsibility for the collapse of a mining river port in Brazil.
- Represents an American drilling company in an administrative improbity action related to the Operation Car Wash.
- Advised clients on Public Sector Administrative Contracting Law.
Recognition
- Recognized at Análise Advocacia Mulher in Specialty: Arbitration in 2022.
- Recognized at Análise Advocacia Mulher in Economic Sector: Agriculture and Cattle Farming in 2022.
- Recognized at Análise Advocacia Mulher in UF: Rio de Janeiro in 2022.
Education
- Pontifical Catholic University PUC/SP, certification in Advanced Course in Arbitration
- Pontifical Catholic University PUC/SP, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)
- Pontifical Catholic University PUC/SP, certification in International Commercial Arbitration
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal – UNL, Master's Degree in Procedural Civil Law and Arbitration
Admissions
- Brazil
Languages
- Portuguese
- English