GST LLP Founding Partner Mauricio Gomm Santos, brings more than 30 years of experience to bear as arbitrator and mediator in all international matters facing entities conducting global business today, including finance, international distributorships, infrastructure, utilities, technology and more. His areas of practice include agency and distribution, franchising, corporate, infrastructure, joint-ventures, logistics and transportation and oil and gas. Gomm Santos is licensed to practice in New York and in Brazil, and he is certified in Florida as a Foreign Legal Consultant. Leaders League ranked him among Brazil’s Best Arbitrators for 2019.
Gomm Santos is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), and mediator accredited by the Centre for Effective Resolution (CeDR). He acts as counsel and arbitrator pursuant to the rules of the world’s major arbitral institutions, such as the LCIA, ICC, ICDR/AAA, CPR, Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC), Centro de Mediação e Arbitragem da Câmara de Comércio Brasil-Canada (CAM-CCBC). He is also in the roster of arbitrators of SIAC and HKIAC, among others. He has performed a number of unique roles, including offering expert testimony in common and civil law jurisdictions, serving as an emergency arbitrator, ad-hoc arbitrator, and mediator in international cases.
In addition to academic posts at University of Miami and at post-graduate courses on advanced mediation in the USA, England, and Brazil, Gomm Santos drafted the curriculum for an academic institute on international arbitration at University of Miami School of Law. He has authored numerous articles on topics related to international dispute resolution in major journals such as TDM (Transnational Dispute Management). He has spoken at hundreds of events and chaired conferences in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. At the request of the Organization of American States, he served as an expert on arbitration topics in high level discussions with justices from the Americas and the Caribbean.
His professional affiliations are many and varied. Gomm Santos is currently a member of the AAA-ICDR Council, and of the Latin American Group of ICC. He serves as Chairman of the Brazilian Advisory Committee of the ICDR/AAA, member of the Consultive Council of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce of Florida and as Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, among others. His additional memberships include Clube dos Arbitralistas Lusófonos (CAL), International Council for Commercial Arbitration, Miami International Arbitration Society, NY State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Committee, Swiss Chinese Law Association, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre and Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution.
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