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Caroline dos Santos is Counsel in the Geneva office, where she focuses her practice on Dispute Resolution and Commercial matters. She advises and represents clients in commercial and corporate disputes before arbitral tribunals and Swiss courts and assists them in navigating contentious and non-contentious matters in domestic and cross-border contexts.
Caroline acts under several major institutional rules, including ICC, Swiss Rules, UNCITRAL, and AAA, with a focus on large-scale claims and emergency relief. She also assists clients with the enforcement of arbitral awards before the Swiss courts and regularly acts as an arbitrator.
Her main areas of expertise include contract law, with a particular focus on infrastructure and construction projects, including data centers, sales, distribution and joint ventures.
In parallel, she regularly advises on the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements, ensuring consistency between transactional structuring and dispute strategy, including joint ventures and shareholders agreements, as well as distribution agreements.
She was admitted to the Swiss Bar in 2016. Prior to joining CMS, Caroline worked as an associate in other leading law firms in Geneva.
Caroline is Co-Chair of ASA below 40 (the under-40 group of the Swiss Arbitration Association) and represents the Swiss Arbitration Association within the framework of its Ambassador Programme for Brazil.