Agripino is a lawyer with many plotted nautical charts. A Brazilian Merchant Marine deck officer, graduated by the Centro de Instrução Almirante Graça Aranha (CIAGA, 1983), worked as second mate for several years before the beginning of his legal career.

Co-founder of Agripino & Ferreira Advogados, previously he has worked as associate to the law firm of José Haroldo dos Anjos and Carlos Rubens Caminha Gomes, both former professors of the Brazilian Merchant Marine Academy in Rio de Janeiro, authors of the classic maritime law textbook Curso de Direito Marítimo, published in 1992.

Doctor of Law by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), he was visiting scholar at the Stanford Law School and senior fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, from Harvard University.

At present, in addition to exercising his functions as lawyer, Agripino is also professor at the postgraduate research program in Law at the University of Vale of Itajaí (UNIVALI) and at the Master of Transport Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), as well as visiting professor in the International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI), in Malta.

A prolific author, he has published more than twenty books and dozens of scientific papers dealing with Maritime Law, Port Law and Regulation, printed by relevant publishing houses in Brazil and abroad, as the Oxford University Press. For such reasons, Agripino’s name became reference in Maritime and Port Law, having received the Admiral Tamandaré Medal by the Brazilian Navy, in recognition to his contribution to the shipping sector.