Guilherme Rizzo Amaral

Practice Areas

International Arbitration, Litigation, Consumer and Product Liability.

Career

Guilherme is one of the founding partners of Souto Correa Advogados and its current managing partner. He focuses his practice on arbitration, both as counsel and as an arbitrator. Full Member of the Commission of the ICC International Court of Arbitration on the Belt and Road Initiative and highly involved with Asian clients and their businesses in Brazil. Chair of the Latin America Chapter of the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC). Legal Expert of the Chinese non-profit organization Benchmark Chambers International (Base of the Supreme People’s Court of China for Discerning Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Foreign Law). Listed as an arbitrator at the LCIA and HKIAC, among other institutions. He was also a member of a committee that assisted the Brazilian House of Representatives in the drafting of the bill of the new Code of Civil Procedure.

Professional Memberships

OAB, CBAr, IBA, IADC, IPBA, IAPL, ICC

Publications

Several articles and books about arbitration and procedural law. Latest: “Judicial Precedent and Arbitration: Are arbitrators bound by judicial precedent?” (London, 2nd edition 2018).

Personal

Visiting Scholar (Queen Mary, London); PhD (UFRGS); Master’s and LL.B (PUCRS).

Practice Areas

Arbitration

Litigation

Career

Guilherme Rizzo Amaral is the current CEO and one of the founding partners of Souto Correa Advogados. He practices as a lawyer and an arbitrator in local and international arbitrations and strategic litigation.

From 2018 to 2022, he served as a member of the commission established by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce for the Belt and Road project (Chinese investment program), and he has been devoting his time and expertise to assist Chinese clients in Brazil.

He was also a member of the commission that assisted the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in drafting the New Civil Procedure Code.

Publications

Single authorship works:

Judicial Precedent and Arbitration – Are arbitrators bound by judicial precedent? A comparative study of UK, US and Brazilian Law and Practice. Londres: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill, 2017 (2ª edição, 2018), 200p.

Comentários às Alterações do Novo CPC [Comments on the New CPC Amendments]. São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunais (Thomson Reuters), 2015 (2ª edição, 2016; 3ª edição. 2018) 1.439p.

Cumprimento e Execução da Sentença sob a ótica do formalismo-valorativo [Fulfillment and Execution of the Judgment under the Formalist-Valorative viewpoint]. Porto Alegre: Livraria do Advogado, 2008. 244p.

Estudos de Direito Intertemporal e Processo [Studies of Intertemporal Law and Process]. 1. ed. Porto Alegre: Livraria do Advogado, 2007. 104p.

As Astreintes e o Processo Civil Brasileiro – Multa do art. 461 e outras [Daily fines and the Brazilian Civil Process – Fine of article 461 and others]. 1. ed. Porto Alegre: Livraria do Advogado, 2004. 237p. (2. ed. 2010).

Co-authorship works:

AMARAL, Guilherme Rizzo (Org.); MITIDIERO, Daniel (Org.); FEIJÓ, Maria Angélica (Org.). Processo Civil – Estudos em Homenagem ao Professor Doutor Carlos Alberto Alvaro de Oliveira. [Civil Procedure – Studies in Honor of Professor Carlos Alberto Alvaro de Oliveira.] São Paulo: Atlas, 2012.

AMARAL, Guilherme Rizzo (Org.); MACHADO, Fábio Cardoso (Org.). Polêmica sobre a ação: a tutela jurisdicional na perspectiva das relações entre direito e processo. [Polemics about action: the jurisdictional guardianship in the perspective of the relations between law and process]. Porto Alegre: Livraria do Advogado, 2006. 319p.

AMARAL, Guilherme Rizzo (Org.); MACHADO, Fábio Cardoso (Org.). Visões críticas do processo civil brasileiro – uma homenagem a José Maria Rosa Tesheiner [Critical views of Brazilian civil procedure – a tribute to José Maria Rosa Tesheiner]. 1. ed. Porto Alegre: Livraria do Advogado, 2005. 244p.

Comentários aos artigos 536 a 538 do novo CPC [Comments on articles 536 to 538 of the new CPC]. In: WAMBIER, Teresa Arruda Alvim. Breves Comentários ao Novo Código de Processo Civil. S: Revista dos Tribunais (Thomson Reuters), 2015. p. 1.400-1.411.

Comentários aos artigos 683 a 689-A do CPC [Comments on articles 683 to 689-A of the CPC]. In: OLIVEIRA, Carlos Alberto Alvaro de. (Org.). A Nova Execução de Títulos Extrajudiciais [The New Execution of Extrajudicial Bonds]. 1ed.Rio de Janeiro: Sulina, 2007, v. 1, p. 103-125.

Verdade, justiça e dignidade da legislação: breve ensaio sobre a efetividade do processo, inspirado no pensamento de John Rawls e de Jeremy Waldron [ Truth, justice, and the dignity of legislation: a brief essay on the effectiveness of the process, inspired by the thought of John Rawls and Jeremy Waldron]. In: KNIJNIK, Danilo. (Org.). Prova Judiciária: estudos sobre o novo direito probatório [Judicial Evidence: studies on the new evidential law]. Porto Alegre: Livraria do Advogado, 2007. p. 129-152.

Breves Notas sobre o Cumprimento e Execução das Sentenças de Acordo com a Lei 11.232/05 [Brief Notes on the Execution of Judgments according to Law 11.232/05]. In: COSTA, Fábio Nogueira; PISSURNO, Marco Antônio Ribas. (Org.). Estudos sobre as últimas reformas do Código de Processo Civil. Mato Grosso do Sul: IEJ-MS, 2007, v. 1, p. 169-204.

Comentários aos artigos 475-I e 475-J do CPC [Comments on Articles 475-I and 475-J of the CPC]. In: OLIVEIRA, Carlos Alberto Alvaro. (Org.). A Nova Execução. 1ed. Rio de Janeiro: Forense, 2006.

A Polêmica em torno da Ação de Direito Material [The Controversy around the Material Lawsuit]. In: AMARAL, Guilherme Rizzo e MACHADO, Fábio Cardoso. (Org.). Polêmica sobre a ação: a tutela jurisdicional na perspectiva das relações entre direito e processo. [Controversy on action: jurisdictional injunction in the perspective of the relations between law and proceeding]. Porto Alegre: Livraria do Advogado, 2006. p. 111-127.

Novas Competências Trabalhistas na Emenda Constitucional n.º 45 e Direito Intertemporal [New Labor Competencies in the Constitutional Amendment 45 and Intertemporal Law]. In: MACHADO, Fábio Cardoso e MACHADO, Rafael Bicca. (Org.). A reforma do Poder Judiciário. São Paulo: Quartier Latin, 2006, v., p. 356-376.

Ensaio acerca do impacto do Novo Código Civil sobre os processos pendentes [Essay on the impact of the New Civil Code on pending cases]. In: DIDIER, JR., Fredie Souza; MAZZEI, Rodrigo. (Org.). Reflexos do Novo Código Civil no Direito Processual. 2ed.Salvador: Juspodivm, 2006, v., p. 395-417.

Técnicas de tutela e o cumprimento da sentença no Projeto de Lei 3.253/04: uma análise crítica da reforma do Processo Civil Brasileiro [Enforcement techniques and the enforcement of the sentence in Bill 3.253/04: a critical analysis of the Brazilian Civil Procedure reform]. In: AMARAL, Guilherme Rizzo; e CARPENA, Márcio Louzada. (Org.). Visões críticas do processo civil brasileiro: uma homenagem. 1ed.Porto Alegre: AMAZON- Publications, 2005, v. 1, p. 125-149.