- Recommended lawyer for 'Insurance (Brazil)'
"Highly experienced Fabio Torres, covers all areas of liability, including D&O, aviation, property, maritime and infrastructure-related claims."
The Legal 500 Latin America 2022 - Recommended lawyer for 'Insurance (Brazil)'
The Legal 500 Latin America 2021 - Leading Lawyer for ‘Brazil: Insurance & Reinsurance’
“an experienced litigation lawyer”
Who’s Who Legal 2017
Fabio Torres has led Kennedys’ Brazil office since 2011 and is the founding partner of F. Torres Advogados.
Fabio is a legal consultant to several multinational reinsurers, a former international legal coordinator at IRB Brazil Re and former chairman of the Insurance and Reinsurance Bar Association of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro Section (OAB-RJ). He is also an MBA professor and in-house course lecturer of reinsurance at several prestigious Brazilian higher education institutions: Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC RJ) and Escola Nacional de Seguros (FUNENSEG/ENS). Fabio is a regular speaker at national and international seminars.
With wide-ranging experience, his expertise include aviation, marine, contractors’ all risks (CAR), delay in start-up (DSU) and advanced loss of profits (ALOPs), professional indemnity for construction and energy, directors and officers liability (D&O), errors and omissions insurance (E&O), energy, environmental liability and surety, encompassing dispute resolution and subrogated recovery, liability adjusting and litigation and advisory and strategic alignment in loss adjusting. Fabio also covers aspects of litigation, defense and assistance in arbitration proceedings and legal opinions.
Fabio has advised international and Brazilian clients in relevant cases covering judicial and extrajudicial claims, and in adjustment proceedings and recovery lawsuits to international and domestic insurers.
