Helena Najjar Abdo

Practice Areas

Litigation and Arbitration; and Crisis Management.

Career

Bachelor of Laws, Master and PhD - Procedural Law from the Universidade de São Paulo; and Italian Civil Procedural Law from Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.

She represents several national and foreign companies, investors, multinationals and investment funds before state courts, arbitration and mediation chambers, administrative bodies and class entities. She has extensive experience in all matters related to procedural law and civil law, as well as advice on conducting business, acting in collective processes, public procurement, crisis management, and cases considered delicate and with a high level of repercussion in the media.

Professional Memberships

Arbitrator of Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration and Chamber of Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration of the Commission of Law Firms of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo branch; Visiting professor at Fordham University (2019/2020); volunteer assistant professor of undergraduate/graduate courses in Civil Procedural Law at Universidade de São Paulo; Member: Brazilian Institute of Procedural Law, of the Publications Committee of the Center for Advanced Studies of Procedural Law, of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee.

Publications

"The abuse of the process" (Revista dos Tribunais, 2007); "Media and process" (Saraiva, 2011); Co-authored several works of Procedural Law and Consumer Law.