Bruno Meyerhof Salama is an expert in Commercial and Financial Law, with extensive experience across academia, private practice, and government.
As a founding partner of Salama Silva Filho Advogados, he focuses on expert legal opinions and advice in high-stakes disputes, with particular depth in insolvency, banking and financial regulation, capital markets, corporate law, and the economic analysis of law. He has served as an arbitrator in proceedings administered by the CAM-CCBC, the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), and the Brazilian Stock Exchange Arbitration Chamber (CAM-B3), and is a listed arbitrator at the latter two. He is admitted to practice in New York and Brazil, and works fluidly across both legal systems and across the United States and Latin America.
Alongside his Berkeley appointment, Bruno is a Professor at FGV São Paulo Law School, and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and at Beijing Jiaotong University Law School in China. He has consulted for the World Bank and served on Brazil’s National Financial System Appeals Council, the administrative appeals body for the country’s financial system.
His legal opinions have been cited in complex cross-border disputes and regulatory matters, and presented before forums including U.S. District Courts in New York and California, the London Court of International Arbitration, and the ICC in Paris and São Paulo, as well as Brazilian arbitration chambers, courts, and regulatory bodies.
More about Bruno’s practice and writing is available at brunosalama.com.
Education
J.S.D, UC Berkeley Law
LL.M, UC Berkeley Law
M.A, FGV School of Economics
LL.B, University of São Paulo