Valeria de Sousa Pinto

Areas of expertise
Civil-Commercial Mediation; Online Dispute Resolution; Family and Divorce Mediation

Languages
Portuguese and English

Professional Memberships
IMAB – Brazilian Mediation and Arbitration Institute/2016.
MLC – Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution- Pepperdine University/2017.
ICFML – Institute for Accreditation of Portuguese Language Speaker Mediators/2018. ODR EU Accredited eMediator/2020.

Professional Experience
Founder and Chief Executive – Mediar|PR training and consulting – Curitiba/Brazil
Practicing lawyer in commercial law and family business and divorce.
Accredited Mediator for Civil, Commercial and Family-Divorce disputes.
Vice-president of the Mediation and Arbitration Chamber at the BAR Association in Parana/Brazil.
President of the Mediation Board for the BAR Association in Parana-Brazil/2019-2021.
ADR ODR International Civil/Commercial Mediation/2020.
Online Dispute Resolution/2020.

Style & Approach
Combining years of consensual advocacy, since 2015 I’ve been focusing my practice on Mediation.
I seek to create a neutral and trustful environment, in order to guarantee confidentiality and impartiality and
give the parties a secure and credible process in order to build a significant and meaningful agreement.