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More than 29 years of experience in law practice and legal business administration. Strategic vision, being responsible for the idealization and implementation of two new profitable departments in a traditional law firm. Expert in dealing with complex matters, related or not to legal affairs, always anticipating general risks and legal issues. Long term Head of different departments, with full capacity of managing single-professionals and/or multi-disciplinary teams. Strong judgement focused on choosing the best solution for internal or external clients/ demands.Team builder and manager, always being responsible for choosing the best lawyers and professionals to fit each available position and acting constantly in order to optimize the cost-effectiveness of each team. Strategic Leadership combined with knowledge sharing, in order to allow the transferring of traditional law firm’s culture to younger professionals and employees. Project builder, related or not to legal affairs, being the partner responsible for the idealization and foundation of an important Industry Association.Legal strategist for multi-industry demands, showing ability to deal with hundreds of different industries at the same time.Fast learning capability to understand the particularities of different industry types, in order to find the best solution for each of them. Very used to work under pressure, deal with fast-paced environments and urgent cases coming from internal or external clients/ demands.Daily communication with top executives from multinational companies. Production of high-level legal advices and opinions involving different areas of law. Ability to administrate and manage a massive number of cases.Expert in building strategies and coordinating the their execution on high and medium complexity cases, combined with very short deadlines. Extensive experience in crise management. Direct control of internal and external client`s budgets, especially when clients have yearly budgets to cover certain number of cases, demanding equalization between new cases and remaining budgets. Full domain of top quality legal writing. External representation of clients/ firm on administrative matters, regulatory issues, criminal and civil cases before State Police, Federal Polices, Civil and Criminal Courts at First Instance, Appellate Court, Superior and Supreme Courts.Strategy idealization and implementation involving different law specializations or other areas, such as, marketing, administration, financial, public relations, security, among others.

Listed skills include Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Copyright Law, Unfair Competition, and 15 others.