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São Paulo, Brazil

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Consulting firm focused on restructuring legal departments of companies and/or law firms with the purpose of optimizing structures and results.Main activities / responsibilities:• Creation and/or restructuring of legal departments: diagnosis (legal due diligence); review of team profile effectiveness; activities’ mapping and adjustment; development and/or assessment of executive reports; assessment of service providers (law firms, paralegal, notary public, etc);• Compliance Program and Risk Management Implementation: area organisation, providing training to the Compliance team and other employees; drawing up good standing questionnaires; risk assessment; third parties’ due diligence (service providers, suppliers and partners); implementation of risk matrix (including data protection matters) and action plan; establishment of internal committees as well as drafting and / or review of policies, such as Code of Conduct, Corporate Governance, Privacy and Data Protection;• Review of the litigation portfolio in order to set up and implement a legal strategy applicable to the management of mass claims, including settlement policy with the aim of reducing expenses and provisioned amount; assessment of the outside counsels portfolio; structuring of the employer’s representative team in court (“preposto”); workflow and processes optimization; improvement of indicators related to unfavourable decisions and claims financial cost; • Periodic or eventual evaluation and advice;• Secondment service;• Delivery of lectures on Revolution 4.0, and its impacts on legal environment, as well as management of legal department.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Career transition oriented by Lee Hecht Harrison.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Supervision and coordination of the team composed of 10 lawyers, 1 paralegal and 5 interns. Responsible for the Institutional, Consumer & Cards Unit of the Legal Department as follows: a) matters regarding corporate affairs, including corporate restructuring and trademarks; b) administrative proceedings; relationship with Brazilian regulators (Central Bank of Brazil, CVM, PREVIC and CADE); c) pension funds; d) negotiating contracts associated with suppliers for the group, including technology; e) legal support to real estate affairs of the group;f) acting in data privacy and outsourcing matters;g) in charge of the corporate governance policy for the institution; h) taking part in special projects of the institution, such as mergers and acquisitions ("M&A"), acting in the following: 1) IPO (initial public offering) of Redecard, of which Banco Citibank was a shareholder; 2) acquisition of Intra S.A.Corretora de Valores by Citi in Brazil; 3) sale of Interchange Serviços.; 4) joint-venture with Elavon in order to incorporate a company in Brazil for the merchant acquiring business; 5) sale of Credicard and Citifinancial companies (credit card and financing businesses) to Itaú Group; 6) negotiation of the new shareholders agreement of Tecban; 7) incorporation of Galgo S.A, a joint-venture among several financial institutions, BM&FBOVESPA and ANBIMA; 8) sale of the Elavon do Brasil.; 9) sale of Citi Brazil’s consumer business to the Itaú Unibanco group;i) also responsible for coordinating activities in connection with the legal advice to the Retail and Cards segments as a whole, which includes structuring, development and implementation of products and services and their respective legal documents . Acting in partnership negotiations.Member of internal committees. Permanent member of the legal committee at ABECS.Statutory director of financial institutions pertaining to Citi group in Brazil from 2011 to 2012.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Structuring and afterwards management of the area (legal team, vendors & budget) which dealt with the opening of new branches of Citibank and Citifinancial from a legal perspective within the Hypergrowth Project, developed by the organization between 2005 and 2007. This activity comprehended issues related to real estate and corporate laws, the relationship with the Brazilian Central Bank and all the necessary paperwork for the new branches, such as the licence from the fire department, building permit, activity and advertising permits.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Relevant activities performed:a) Acting in corporate matters, including consultancy for the group companies and investment funds as well as in matters regarding regulators (Brazilian Central Bank; the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission – CVM and the National Complementary Welfare Superintendence – PREVIC);b) In charge of contracts dealing with electronic transactions and contracts related to portfolio management and custody; c) Responsible for “correspondente bancário” and distribution of third party mutual funds; d) In charge of pension funds legal aspects, also acting in the concession of stock options plans for employees of the group in Brazil; e) Taking part in special projects such as the sale of the company’s stocks in “Orbital”; corporate restructuring of “Credicard”; pension fund management transference to Metlife group (took part in the worldwide sale transaction of the business unit, responsible for insurance and pension funds, from Citi to Metlife) and the sale of the asset management business unit to Legg Mason, and f) Legal support to the exchange area, which involved the transfer of resources abroad and from abroad.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Acting in corporate matters, including consultancy involving the group’s companies (and also investment funds). Participated in the Banco Santander-Noroeste merger.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Acting in the corporate area, in charge of the minutes of the shareholder meetings, incorporations, winding up and bylaws. Taking part in corporate restructuring activities of the group’s companies.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Acting in the litigation area.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

São Paulo Area, Brazil

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration

Extension Course, Pension Funds

Extracurricular Course, Regulatory And Compliance Training

Specialization Course, Contract Law

Bachelor'S Degree, Law

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