Pedro Martini’s practice focuses on arbitration, litigation, and investigation matters, involving complex, cross-border issues.

Pedro Martini’s practice focuses on arbitration, litigation, and investigation matters, involving complex, cross-border issues. Pedro has extensive experience in M&A, shareholder, private equity, and other corporate and commercial disputes in arbitrations administered by international institutions, as well as in New York courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery. He has also represented companies and individuals in governmental investigations and court proceedings in connection with anti-bribery and corruption matters.

Pedro joined the firm in 2015.

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Notable Experience

International Arbitration

  • A founder and significant equity holder as Claimant in a JAMS arbitration regarding corporate governance disputes under a limited liability company agreement governed by Delaware law.

  • The subsidiary of a U.S. pharmacy as Claimant in a CPR arbitration seated in New York seeking lost profits damages sustained as a result of respondent’s wrongful termination of an agreement governed by New York law.

  • A major European bank in successfully defeating claims in an ICC arbitration seeking indemnification pursuant to an M&A agreement governed by New York law arising out of the sale of a South American subsidiary.

  • A Belgian consumer goods manufacturer in achieving a favorable settlement in an ICC arbitration seated in Sao Paulo, relating to claims for accounting misrepresentations in violation of a sale and purchase agreement governed by Brazilian law.

  • Italian company in an arbitration under Swiss Rules (SCAI) with Zurich seat relating to violations of a sale and purchase agreement pursuant to Swiss, Italian and Brazilian law.

  • Brazilian investment fund in an ICC arbitration seated in London and governed by Brazilian law, brought by several investment companies.

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Litigation

  • Successfully represented Juul Labs Inc. (JLI) in bet-the-company litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery brought by certain large investors in ~$2 billion in JLI convertible notes, achieving a highly favorable settlement that transformed the company’s financial outlook and averted potential bankruptcy.

  • Foreign individual defendants in successfully obtaining dismissal in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of claims alleging violations of a federal statute and related tort theories based on lack of personal jurisdiction.

  • Cynosure, LLC in a Delaware Court of Chancery action alleging fraudulent inducement and breaches of representations under an asset purchase agreement governed by Delaware law.

  • Vale in litigation filed by the SEC alleging violations of securities regulations in connection with a dam collapse in Brazil.

  • Petrobras, PGF, and current and former officers and directors in securities class action and 29 individual actions in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in connection with Operation Carwash — reportedly the largest corruption scandal in Latin American history.

  • LATAM Airlines and its affiliates in contested motions in connection with the voluntary reorganization and restructuring of their debt under Chapter 11 protection in the United States.

  • Former officers of BRF S.A. in federal securities class action litigation arising out of investigations in Brazil.

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Enforcement and Investigations

  • Vale S.A. in an SEC investigation into securities disclosures related to the Company’s dam safety in the wake of the 2019 Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil.

  • Special committee of the board of directors of GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A., in an independent investigation and representation before U.S. authorities of FCPA allegations relating to bribery.

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Selected Activities

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  • Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – CIArb
  • Board of the Brazil Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – CIArb

Publications

Published and presented several papers on contracts and commercial and investment arbitration, including:

“Contractual Damages in New York Arbitrations,” (co-Author) Damages, Contracts and Arbitration, Quartier Latin, 2025

“The Lithium Triangle: Challenges and Opportunities for Latin America,” Cleary Gottlieb Alert Memorandum, September 25, 2023

“Provisional Remedies in Aid of Arbitrations Seated in Brazil,” (co-Author) Arbitration and the Judiciary, Migalhas, 2023

“Commercial Arbitration: Brazil,” Global Arbitration Review, March 28, 2023

“Possible Contributions of the CISG and the UNIDROIT Principles to Exemption of Liability Under Brazilian Contractual Law”, Contractual Law and the Vienna Convention (CISG), Almedina, 2021

Events

São Paulo Arbitration Week, “Documentary Evidence in Arbitration” – October 22, 2025 – São Paulo, Brazil

Paris Arbitration Week, “International Arbitration and the Judiciary: the Brazilian and French Perspectives” – April 9, 2025 – Paris, France

XI CAM-CCBC Arbitration Congress 17th IFCAI Biennial Conference, “Restoring the Economic and Financial Equilibrium of Contracts” – October 15, 2024 – São Paulo, Brazil

CBMA Workshop, “Document Production in Arbitration” – May 11, 2023 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

CAM-CCBC - Brazil As Seat of Arbitration: Future Perspectives – March 16, 2021, Webinar

Young ICCA Skills Training Workshop, “Oral Advocacy in International Arbitration” – May 7, 2018 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil