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Cristina M. Wagner Mastrobuono is a lawyer, acting currently as arbitrator in disputes arising from complex contracts, including those under concession and PPP model.


After serving the Legal Department of the State of São Paulo for 27 years, she opened in 2020 her private practice to act in arbitration exclusively as an independent arbitrator. Since then, she has been appointed as co-arbitrator and chair in disputes related to contracts involving construction, energy sector, road concessions, subways, real estate operations and corporate issues arising in private and state-owned companies, before ICC, CAM-CCBC, CAM/B3, CAMARB, CIESP/FIESP, and AMCHAM.


Cristina is a certified Fellow by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – CIArb and is currently the chair of CIArb Brazil Branch. She is listed at CAM/B3, CAM-CCBC, CIESP/FIESP, CAMARB, CBMA, ARBITAC, Shanghai Arbitration Commission – SAC and Court of Arbitration for Art – CafA, and VIAC.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020 - Present

International arbitrator in the construction and energy sector and financial contracts before

CCI, CAM-CCBC, CIESP/FIESP and CAM/B3


Current Chair of CIArb Brazil Branch 

1993 - 2020

Legal Counsel, State Attorney’s Office of São Paulo, Brazil (Procuradoria Geral do

Estado de São Paulo – PGE-SP)

  • 2019: Deputy Attorney General (Procurador Geral do Estado Adjunto)
  • 2015-2018: Head of the Advisory Department
  • 2011-2015: Advisor to the Chief Legal Officer, Head of the Steering Committee for the State’s companies and foundations
  • 2007-2010: Legal Advisor, Department of Finance/Treasury Office
  • 2003-2006: Advisor to the Chief Legal Officer
  • 1993-2002: State Solicitor Office, Finance & Taxation Practice

1984 - 1987

Associate, Florence & Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil (Private Practice)

Legal counsel to German companies active in Brazil, with focus on corporate practice.

memberships | BOARDS | GROUPS

  • Brazilian Bar Association (OAB)
  • Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem (CBar)
  • Instituto Brasileiro do Direito da Construção (IBDiC) - Board
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – FCIArb
  • Chair of CIArb Brazil Branch
  • Infrawomen Brazil/IWB – Member of the Advisory Committee
  • AmCham – Board member of the arbitration center
  • Working Group DIS-CAM-CCBC – co-chair of Brazil

PUBLICATIONS

State-Owned Enterprises: Legal Regime and Practical Experience under Federal Law No. 13,303/2016

Cristina M. Wagner Mastrobuono, Bruno Lopes Megna, and Mario Engler

Pinto Jr. (eds.). São Paulo, SP: Almedina, 2022.

“Transfer of Resources between the Controlling Shareholder and State-Owned Enterprises"

Co-authored with Carlos Eduardo Teixeira Braga, in State-Owned Enterprises:

Legal Regime and Practical Experience under Federal Law No. 13,303/2016. Cristina M. Wagner Mastrobuono, Bruno Lopes Megna, and Mario Engler Pinto Jr. (eds.). São Paulo, SP: Almedina, 2022.

“Privatizations, Minority Shareholdings, and Subsidiaries,” co-authored with Cláudia Polto da Cunha,

Cristina M. Wagner Mastrobuono, Bruno Lopes Megna, and Mario Engler Pinto Jr. (eds.). São Paulo, SP: Almedina, 2022.

"The regulation of the participation of the State of São Paulo in arbitrations"

Co-authored with Bruno Lopes Megna. In WALD, Arnoldo, and LEMES, Selma (coords.): 25 years of the Arbitration Act (1996-2021): history, legislation, doctrine and jurisprudence. Sao Paulo : Thompson Reuters Brazil, 2021. p. 99-118

"The dialogue of the New Law of Bidding and Engineering Contracts: some notes"

In: Public works and engineering services in the New Law of Bids and Contracts. Rio de Janeiro : Ed. Lumen Juris, 2021. p.19-28.

"The development of the use of arbitration in infrastructure contracts:

Practical issues faced by the State of São Paulo

TAFUR, Diego Jacome Valois; JURKSAITIS, Guilherme

Jardim; ISSA, Rafael Hamze (coords.), Practical Experience in Concessions and PPP: Studies in honor of the 25 the anniversary of the Concessions Law. Vol I - Structuring and Arbitration.

São Paulo: Latin Quarter, 2021. p.351-376

"Justice: thinking artificial intelligence"

Co-authored with Ronaldo G. Gallo. In:

NASCIMBENI, Asdrubal Franco; BERTASI, Maria Odete Duque; RANZOLIN, Ricardo B. (coord.). 

Mediation and Arbitration Themes V. São Paulo : LEX Editora, 2021. -. 83 – 104

"The choice of the arbitration chamber in disputes with the public administration"

TAFUR, Diego Jacome Valois; JURKSAITIS, Guilherme

Jardim; ISSA, Rafael Hamze (coords.), Practical Experience in Concessions and PPP: Studies in honor of the 25 the anniversary of the Concessions Law. Vol I - Structuring and Arbitration.

São Paulo: Latin Quarter, 2021. p.351-376

“Independence and Impartiality of Experts and the Role of Arbitral Institutions"

A Brazilian and an International View”, YAR – Young Arbitration Review, year 9, Ed. 39, Oct/2020, p.32-35

"Research: Rules of Impartiality and Independence in the Production of Evidence in Arbitrations"

Revista Brasileira de Arbitrage RBA 67, Jul-Sep/2020, p. 32-77

Parcerias Público Privadas vol II.

Cristina Margarete Wagner Mastrobuono, (org.) – Revista da Procuradoria Geral do Estado de São Paulo, n. 89, jan-jul./2019

Parcerias Público Privadas

Cristina Margarete Wagner Mastrobuono, Mariângela Sarrubbo Fragata, organizors – São Paulo : Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo – CPGE – Centro de Estudos da Procuradoria Geral do Estado : 2014

Languages

Portuguese (native), English (fluent), German (fluent), Spanish (comprehends).

Citizenship

 Brazilian and German citizenship. 

Education

1985 – Bachelor of Laws (LLB), University of São Paulo, Brazil

1996 – Master of Laws (LLM), University of Chicago, USA

2006 – Post Graduation in Corporate Law, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil

2018 – International Commercial Arbitration, Columbia University, USA

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