Equipav S.A. v. Silmar Roberto Bertin: Petition to Enforce Foreign Arbitration Award ($40M)

Petition to Recognize and Enforce Foreign Arbitration Award totaling $40.7 million in Equipav S.A. Pavimentação, Engenharia e Comercio Ltda., of São Paulo, Brazil v. Silmar Roberto Bertin, described as “a citizen of Brazil, a business mogul, and is among the richest individuals in Brazil” who “has engaged in a decades-long scheme to evade contractual, judicial, and tax liabilities” that involved using “complex schemes to remove his assets from Brazil and conceal them in US bank accounts, shell corporations and pretextual foreign investments”, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.