Fabricio Bertini Pasquot Polido

Practice Areas

Data Protection

Dispute Resolution

Fashion Law

Innovation and Technology

Intellectual Property

International Trade

Career

Represents national and international clients in complex transactions and dispute settlement both in litigation and arbitration on major issues related to innovation and new technologies, intellectual property, privacy and cybersecurity, internet law, trade in digital goods and services, telecommunications, media and entertainment.

With extensive experience in international legal practice in Brazil and abroad, assists companies and individual investors in matters ranging from the structuring of legal strategies for startups to advising on regulatory matters and complex negotiations involving services, solutions and applications of Industry 4.0, such as in artificial intelligence, digital platforms, internet of things, encryption and cloud computing.

Has been advising clients with drafting and submission of legal opinions in his fields of expertise, as well as the implementation and updating of global corporate policies to Brazilian laws. Assists companies in policy strategies and position documents in hearings and public consultations dealing with legislative projects, and “amicus curiae” memorials before higher Brazilian courts in complex disputes related to internet, intellectual property and new technologies.

Professional Memberships

- Member of Comissão Especial de Tecnologia e Inovação (OAB-SP).

- Member of Comissão Especial de Privacidade e Proteção de Dados (OAB-SP).

- Vocal Member of the Executive Council American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP).

- Member of the Steering Committee on Private International Law and Intellectual Property of International Law Association (ILA).

- Founder and scientific advisor of the Research Institute on Internet and Society (IRIS).

- Member of the Editorial Board of the Review of the Brazilian Intellectual Property Association (ABPI).

- Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Law and Artificial Intelligence (IDEA).

- Listed as panellist of the Dispute Settlement Resolution Committee in Domain Names Registration and Internet of the Chamber of Commerce Brazil-Canada (CCBC); Panel of Arbitrators of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of Italy-Brazil Chamber.

- Rapporteur of the Working Group on International Litigation, Jurisdiction and Foreign Judgments of the American Association of Private International Law for Hague Conference of Private International Law (HCCH).

- Member of the Brazilian-German Jurists Association (DBJV); Society of International Economic Law (SIEL); Latin-American Society of International Law (SLADI); Alumni of Hague Academy of International Law.

- Member of the Brazilian Network of Private International Law and Brazilian Research Forum on Intellectual Property, Competition and Innovation.

- Executive Secretary of the Digital Economy Commission of ICC Brasil.

Publications

Author and editor of several books, he is frequently invited to write articles for national and international journals and reviews, in addition to being member of the editorial boards of several specialized journals.

Fabrício also is frequently invited to speak at national and international seminars and congresses.

Education

Experience

- Tenured Professor of Private International Law, International Intellectual Property Law, Comparative Law, International Dispute Resolution & New Technologies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).

- Professor at the Graduate Program in Law and Graduate Program in Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where he also supervises master’s dissertations and doctoral theses.

- Founder and coordinator of UFMG Research Centre for Studies in Internet, Innovation and Intellectual Property Law (GNet), Study Group on International Contracts and International Commercial Arbitration (GACI) and Law Clinic on Federative Diplomacy and International Affairs of the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

- Centre for Practice and Research on Internet, Innovation and Intellectual Property Law (GNet), Group of International Contracts and International Commercial Arbitration (GACI) and Legal Clinic in Federative Diplomacy and International Affairs at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

- Co-editor of the Brazilian Journal of Comparative Law and Cultural Studies.

- He is frequently invited to teach postgraduate courses at several Brazilian institutions.

- Invited professor in ‘lato sensu’ courses in the areas of international law, intellectual property and new technologies at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Fundação Instituto de Administração (FIA) and Instituto Internacional de Ciências Sociais.

- Active collaborator and visiting professor at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Cape Town, Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, Rome II – Tor Vergata, Humboldt-zu-Berlin and Kent Law School.

- He was visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Private International and Comparative Law in Hamburg, having been a fellow of the Latin America Division in his research project in the fields of private international law, intellectual property and new technologies.

- Was a visiting fellow at Kent Law School, in England, and at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, in Berlin, in projects related to private international law, new technologies, dispute resolution and Industry 4.0 (Big data, cloud computing, internet of things and artificial intelligence).