Mediation,
advisory and
negotiated resolution
of business disputes
Introduction
Ricardo Castorri is a Brazilian lawyer and mediator specialized in the resolution and settlement of corporate and business disputes.
With deep experience and leading roles in some of the most complex and high-profile corporate disputes in Brazil over the past twenty years, Ricardo is now exclusively dedicated to the preemptive settlement and negotiated resolution of these conflicts.
Graduated in law from the University of São Paulo and attending the masters’ program on negotiation and conflict resolution at Columbia University, in Nova York, Ricardo trained as a mediator in Brazil and abroad.
Ricardo is a co-founder of Trindade Sociedade de Advogados, a prestigious corporate law boutique in which he served as managing partner and advised and represented clients in mergers and acquisitions and corporate disputes for over a decade. Previously, Ricardo was a member of corporate law practice of Pinheiro Neto Advogados, in São Paulo, and served as a legal advisor to the Board of the Brazilian Securities Commission – CVM, in Rio de Janeiro.
Ricardo is currently a guest-lecturer on mediation and conflict resolution on the mediators’ training program at Instituto Mediare and on the LL.M. program on corporate and business law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, also in Rio de Janeiro.
For a detailed version of Ricardo’s curriculum vitae, please click here.
Services
As a mediator, Ricardo coordinates and directs the discussions and negotiations among parties in conflict with the aim of helping them overcome their impasses and arrive at sustainable agreements that effectively and definitively settle their disputes.
As a lawyer, Ricardo serves as settlement counsel, advising and representing his clients in close cooperation with the litigators, with the goal of preventing potential disputes and resolving those already underway.
Ricardo also serves as an advisor and member of the board of directors in both family-owned and publicly traded companies, with a special focus on resolving succession disputes and corporate governance crisis.
In such capacities, Ricardo relies on his expertise in structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements and joint ventures, as well as in the dissolution and termination of these ventures and the renegotiation and settlement of financial debt and other contractual liabilities.
In all of them, Ricardo strives to provide pragmatic and creative insights to his clients, with technical rigor and utmost discretion, with the goal of reducing the costs arising from conflict via expedited solutions and the preservation of the parties’ strategic relations and enterprise value.
For a detailed version of Ricardo’s professional resume, please click here.
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