Marcio de Souza Polto

Practice Areas

Litigation and Succession planning

Career

Marcio Polto is partner and head of the Dispute Resolution practice group at Trench Rossi Watanabe , with focus on civil and commercial litigation, including corporate disputes. He has experience in American Law (Litigation, Complex Litigation and Trial Lawyering), as well as in local and international arbitrations. Besides, he is a professor – currently on leave – of civil Procedural Law.

Publications

Marcio is responsible for reviewing and/or drafting several legal articles published in the Revista Literária de Direito, and other specialized publications and/or magazines, addressing topics related to Civil and Civil Procedural Law, such as:

“Procedural Aspects of the Writ of Mandamus”;

“The New Arbitration Law”;

“Certification of the Special and Extraordinary Appeals”;

“Law 9.756/98 and the Broadening of the Reporting Justices’ Authority”;

“Pledge of Capital Quotas and Shares – Judicial and extra-judicial enforcement” ;

“Fraud against creditors and fraud in execution lawsuits”.

Personal

He graduated from the Law School of the University of Sao Paulo, and also holds a master’s degree (LL.M Program) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School – UPENN (Philadelphia, U.S.A). Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.