Contact
Contact
Cássio Gama Amaral
Cássio Gama Amaral
Partner
+55 11 3150-7000
Practice area
Lawyer licensed in Brazil, England, Wales and Portugal. Specialist and reference in the insurance, reinsurance, health, financial services and pension funds industries. Cassio provides cross-sectional advice to stakeholders involved with these sectors in the most diverse transactions (M&A, bancassurance, provision of guarantees, financing, distribution contracts, etc.), as well as regulatory matters, claims and litigation. He also actively contributes to developing research projects and partnerships between the market and the government with academia. Author of several publications on insurance and reinsurance law in Brazil and abroad.
Recent acknowledgments
- Chambers Brazil – Insurance (2014-2023)
- Chambers Latin America – Insurance (2014-2022)
- Chambers Global – Insurance (2014-2023)
- The Legal 500 – Insurance (2014-2022)
- Latin Lawyer 250 – Insurance & Reinsurance (2014-2022)
- Euromoney – Expert Guides – Insurance & Reinsurance (2020-2022)
- Best Lawyers in Insurance and Reinsurance (2017-2022)
- AM Best – Recommended Insurance Attorneys (2020-2022)
- Análise Advocacia 500 – Insurance, Civil Law e São Paulo (2014-2022)
- Who’s Who Legal – Insurance & Reinsurance (2014-2022)
- Who’s Who Legal Brazil – Insurance & Reinsurance (2014-2022)
Education
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- Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) - PhD student in Economics
- Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil – Master in Administration – 2008
- Grand École de Commerce de Lyon (Emlyon Business School – France)– Master in Law (Juriste Manager International) – 2007
- Unijorge, Brazil – Bachelor of Law (Laureate) – 2003
Other qualifications
- Postgraduate professor at Escola Nacional de Seguros, Escola Superior de Advocacia and Instituto Brasil Portugal de Direito (IBPD)
Entities
- Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), São Paulo, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro Sections
- Portuguese Bar Association
- Founding member of the Executive and Advisory Committees of Instituto de Inovação em Seguros e Resseguros (IISR)
- Member of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA)
- Member of the Insurance, Mediation and Litigation Committees of the International Bar Association (IBA)
- Member of the Insurance and Reinsurance Committee of Instituto de Advogados de São Paulo (IASP)
- Member of the Legal and Guarantee and Financing Committees of Associação Brasileira da Infra Estrutura e Indústria de Base (ABDIB)
- The Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority
