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• Rendering legal services in Brazilian tax and fiscal Law in projects of clients of Supply TI, a consulting firm providing tax solutions Technologies to clients;• Working as legal counsel for Oyamota do Brasil S/A, a Brazilian steel mechanical manufacturer for various businesses, in areas such as heavy industry, energy and palm oil extraction, amongst others; responsible for major contracts with key clients; working in the creation of a joint venture with an American firm for development of palm oil business;• Experience in legal consulting and assistance due diligence-type project in the area of contracts and agreements towards the middle market, for companies, both Brazilian and international, who are in the process of start-up or corporate restructuring;• Provide legal consulting and assistance to Brazilian and foreign companies, in the negotiation, elaboration and evaluation of contracts; assistance in fiscal, liability and environmental areas; work in due diligences and in advising companies in start-ups or corporate reorganisation processes;• Rendered for legal assistance in the start-up process of Nipro Medical Corporation Produtos Médicos, a Japanese-American pharmaceutical company; provided legal services for the company, such as elaborating, drafting and negotiating contracts.

teach English, Portuguese and Spanish to students in Brazil and abroad.

Loss adjuster for insurance and reinsurance businesses, carrying out inspections, surveys and reports in areas of civil liability and property, notably engineering. Responsible for the set-up of civil liability area in Brazilian unit of the company.

Worked as Senior Legal Manager, responded to the CEO and Board of Directors. Responsible for managing external law firms, litigation, labour, environmental matters, analysis of contracts, public bid and internal legal memos. Major achievements include the start up of the legal department.

Cadam S.A. was part of the Caemi Mining and Metalurgical Group, which later was acquired by Vale (former CVRD), Brazil´s largest mining company. Worked as Senior Legal Manager and reported to the CEO and Board of Directors. Responsible for all domestic and international contracts, litigation, environmental matters, port security, international memos and liaison with all external lawyers. Major achievements include reduction of potential losses, extension of legal department to HQ in the Amazon.

Glaxo Wellcome (today Glaxo Smithkline) is a major pharmaceutical corporation, headquartered in the United Kingdom. World leader in various fields of pharmaceutical research and development. Brazil Office responsible for all Latin America.As Legal Adviser was responsible for contracts in general, international agreements, liability; assistant negotiator to area managers on international agreements and transactions for the company in Brazil; assistance to the legal manager on legal affairs; assistance to the Legal and Corporate Affairs Director on corporate affairs matters, assistant liaison in negotiations with key Government officials; assisted on labour, fiscal and regulatory affairs;Analysis of Government bid invitations in the Health Sector, assistance to sales force representatives on government bids, legal representation of the company in Government bids, responsibility in appealing against improper rulings. Took part in various bidding sessions, having won a major bid at the Federal Health Department in Brasília in 1999.• Created and implemented the Local Emergency Team, Glaxo Wellcome´s anti-drug counterfeiting and security program; As Secretary of the Team, responsibility for calling emergency meetings with key area managers; responsibility for making and executing action plan; incident reports to Coordinator and Emergency Team managers. During my term as Team President, the company did not have any case of counterfeiting and the sole case where a product was stolen it was recovered.• Assistance to the company’s customer assistance service personnel, orientation with legal implications in the field of liabilities, participation in Farma Sac seminars to discuss legal issues related to customer services in the pharmaceutical industry and its implications throughout Brazil.

• Associated lawyer * Attorney for major Brazilian and International corporations; * Areas of practice: international law, corporate, securities, tort and litigation.