Flávio Ribeiro Bettega

Specialization and main practice

infrastructure area, consultancy in project development and litigation, with an emphasis on alternative means of resolving disputes (as a lawyer and arbitrator)

Professional Practice Profile

His professional practice includes both legal consultancy and litigation in various areas of corporate law, focusing on infrastructure projects. In litigation, he has a recognized practice in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations in accordance with the rules of the ICC, AMC-BCCC, FGV (Getulio Vargas Foundation), CAM-FIEP (Arbitration & Mediation Chamber – State of Parana Industry Federation), among other institutions. Likewise, he practices law in a tenacious and continuous fashion before state and federal courts, as well as higher courts, in Brasilia.

Institutional Participation

Brazilian Bar Association, State of Paraná section, Mediation and Arbitration Commission chair, 2013-2015.

2005 – to date, Arbitration & Mediation Chamber – State of Parana Industry Federation – CAMFIEP (Curitiba, Brazil)
Referee, member of the institutional roll.

State of Parana Lawyers’ Institute, 1998 – to date

Arbitration & Mediation Chamber – State of Parana Industry Federation – CAMFIEP, member of the Advisory Council, 2009 – to date

CIArb – Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Fellow (FCIArb), 2016 – to date

Brazilian Arbitration Committee, 2010 – to date

ICC, Brazil’s Chapter, Commission on Arbitration member, 2016 – to date

Conferences, lectures and event management

Bettega, F.
The negative effects of the arbitration clause. Seminar on arbitration, Brazilian Bar Association – Paraná section, OAB/PR, Superior School of Law of the Brazilian Bar Association, ESA-OAB/PR, Curitiba, Brazil, 2013.

Bettega, F.
The new Code of Civil Procedure and arbitration. Seminar on arbitration, Brazilian Association of Arbitration Students – ABEArb, State of Parana Lawyers’ Institute, Curitiba, Brazil, 2015.

Bettega, F.
Arbitration in the jurisprudence of the Superior Court of Justice-STJ. ICC YAF Seminar – International Chamber of Commerce Young Arbitrator’s Forum, Latin America Chapter, Positivo University, Curitiba, Brazil, 2015.

Bettega, F.
VII Latin American Arbitration Conference – CLA 2015.
Debate participation, Centro de Estudios de Derecho, Economia y Politica (CEDEP) and Positivo University, with support from the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP), Positivo University, Curitiba, Brazil, 2015.

Bettega, F.
Arbitration and the Public Sector. Congress on corporate dispute management, CPR – International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution, Positivo University, Curitiba, Brazil, 2017.

Bettega, F.
Multiparty Arbitrations in Construction: procedural challenges and necessary precautions. IBDiC International Congress (Brazilian Institute of Construction Law) 2022, São Paulo, Brazil, September 1 and 2, 2022.

International languages

English: fluent
French: reads and writes with proficiency
Spanish: good practical knowledge

Other academic or honorary titles

1990, Diplôme de Langue and Civilization Française – Université de Nancy (Niveau 2)

2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, Nominated among the most admired lawyers in Brazil in the Infrastructure and/or Ports and/or Arbitration Sector as well as in the State of Paraná (Editorial Analysis, the 500 most admired lawyers and firms in the Brazil)

2022 and 2023, the law firm and its founding partner, Flavio Bettega, were listed among the “notable practices” in the field of arbitration by the Leaders League.

Education

1988 – 1992, Graduation in Law
Federal University of Paraná, UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil

1993 – 1994, Master of Laws, LLM
Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, USA, with honors