Érica Franzetti concentrates her practice on international commercial and investor-state arbitration matters across multiple industry sectors, including energy and natural resources, life sciences, financial services, hospitality, and Internet governance. Ms. Franzetti has extensive experience advising clients in cases involving multiple procedural rules and has appeared before ICSID, ICC, ICDR and UNCITRAL arbitral tribunals.
Prior to practicing international arbitration, Ms. Franzetti practiced law at a leading Brazil-based law firm, where she represented clients in complex commercial litigation proceedings before the Brazilian courts.
Ms. Franzetti has received consistent professional recognition during the last few years. Chambers Latin Americanominated her as an “Associates to Watch” in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and Latinvex noted her as a “Rising legal star in Latin America” in 2015.
More recently, she has been recognized in the Arbitration Future Leaders section of Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2018, and as a “Rising Star” for commercial arbitration by Euromoney/Legal Media Group in its Expert Guides series 2018 editions.
Ms. Franzetti also serves as arbitrator on commercial arbitrations conducted under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association and teaches a course in investor-state arbitration as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. She has a leadership position in the D.C. Women in International Arbitration group and plays an active role in the Dechert’s Global Women’s Initiative.
EDUCATION :
- University of São Paulo Law School, LL.B, 2000
- Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Graduate Studies in Economics and Business Law, 2006
- Georgetown University, LL.M., 2008
ADMISSIONS :
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Brazil
MEMBERSHIPS :
- Advisory Board of the Institute for the Transnational Arbitration
- Panel of Arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association
- International Bar Association
- Arbitral Women
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