Pablo Bentes

Pablo Bentes advises sovereign states and private clients in every stage of complex WTO disputes dealing with the inter-section between economic and non-economic objectives. He frequently appears on behalf of WTO members in oral pleadings before WTO panels and the Appellate Body.

Pablo focuses on representing WTO Members before the WTO Dispute Settlement Body and assists private clients and trade associations on how to leverage WTO disciplines to resolve trade disputes. Pablo is one of very few practitioners in the world to have successfully represented WTO Members in all stages in WTO dispute settlement proceedings, serving as lead counsel in oral pleadings before WTO panels and the Appellate Body.

Lead Counsel to WTO members in the following WTO disputes:

• Indonesia - Measures Relating to Raw Materials (DS592)*
• United States - Countervailing Duty Measures on Certain Products from China (DS437)*
• Argentina - Measures Affecting the Importation of Goods (DS438/444/445)*
• Argentina - Measures Relating to Trade in Goods and Services (DS453)*
• Russia - Measures affecting the importation of railway equipment and parts thereof (DS499)*

• International Trade/WTO: Brazil Experts Based Abroad - Chambers Global
• "Next Generation Lawyer – Dispute Resolution: International Trade" - Legal 500 US

• University of Miami, LLM, International Law
• University of São Paulo (USP), MBA Finance and Risk Management
• ハーバード・ロースクール, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Negotiation Workshop
• University of São Paulo (USP), JD

• Brazil

• 英語
• フランス語
• German
• Portuguese
• スペイン語

• WTO Indicative List of Panelists (Brazil)
• Member of the American Society of International Law (ASIL)
• Member of the Editorial Board of “Revista de Derecho Económico Internacional”, ITAM, Mexico
• Vice President of the ABCI Institute, Washington, DC
• Chapter-Chair of the New York State Bar Association in Geneva.