Ziade Law Firm
Counting on the experience and innovative vision of its founding partner, Ziade Advocacia is committed to providing cutting-edge legal solutions and carrying out unique and strategic work in handling its cases, from contractual advice to conflict resolution.
Its significant experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts allows it to assist its clients in a variety of commercial transactions. And, when disputes arise, it offers options that range from negotiation to representing clients in arbitration, with the aim of achieving quick and favorable solutions.
Ziade Advocacia values each client and seeks to establish long-term relationships, aiming to meet their specific needs in all legal stages.
Founding Partner
After collecting over a decade of experience in the areas of national and international contracts and conflict resolution, in particular arbitration, Danielle Farah Ziade works as an arbitrator, lawyer and legal consultant, with an emphasis on civil construction, infrastructure, mining and corporate disputes.
Ziade’s career path is marked by renowned offices in Belo Horizonte/MG, where she worked as a lawyer and a secretary of arbitral tribunals of complex arbitration procedures relevant to the Brazilian market, administered by the main Brazilian and international arbitration chambers.
Ziade has a degree in Law from Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) and a Master’s degree in Private International Law from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). She is a Professor at PUC Minas in the Construction Claims Specialist MBA and in the Capital Projects MBA. She is also the Regional Coordinator of Minas Gerais of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr) and of the Brazilian Institute of Contract Administration (IBRACONT).
She was Director and General Secretary of the Brazilian Association of Arbitration Students – ABEArb and was a Member of the Organizing Committee of the Brazilian Arbitration Competition – Petrônio Muniz (CAMARB), in addition to having published several scientific articles.
Driven by her Lebanese heritage and the desire to positively impact the environments she goes through, Danielle leads the firm Ziade Advocacia, putting into practice her knowledge based on a meeting between tradition and disruption. These are outstanding characteristics of her professional life, combined with clear and accessible communication, making the complex field of Law easily understandable to her clients.
Languages: Portuguese, English, German and Spanish.
Contracts and Conflict Resolution
Ziade Advocacia has experience in providing conflict resolution services, particularly including arbitration and negotiation, as well as mediation and dispute board, and contractual advice and business consultancy, involving small, medium and large companies.
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