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| Otavia Bortoti Legal Counsel Nokia Networks Otavia has a broad experience as legal counsel advising in contracts, commercial and corporate law, tax and mergers and acquisitions projects. In the last 14 years of professional experience I have worked mainly in major multinational companies and major law firms, drafting and negotiating acquisition agreements and commercial contracts with strategic partners and suppliers, managing tax and civil litigation matters, notably in tax litigation, acting in strategic litigation, defining the best actions/defense strategies together with specialized law firms, and working on public-bidding cases, and on administrative litigation involving this matter. I was responsible for compliance controls as well as for the elaboration of monthly/quarterly reports to the companies' board, to the companies’ fiscal councils and to the companies’ auditing committee involving legal and contractual matters. | |
| Eleonora Coelho Partner Eleonora Coelho Advogados Eleonora Coelho has a Masters in Litigation, Arbitration and Alternative Methods of Dispute Resolution – ADR from Université Paris II - Panthéon Assas and has a Law degree from the University of São Paulo Law School. Eleonora is a partner in the São Paulo Office of Castro, Barros, Sobral, Gomes - Advogados, responsible for the Arbitration Department of this law firm, practicing in the fields of Civil Law, Commercial Law, Litigation and Arbitration. Has acted as lawyer and arbitrator in both domestic and international arbitration cases. She is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association, of the International Bar Association, member and former Vice President of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr); member of the Board of IBDIC – Brazilian Institute of Construction Law, member of the Arbitrators List of the Market Arbitration Panel, effective Member of Women Lawyers Commission – OAB/SP, member of the Conflict Arbitration Center Consultant Counsel of the American Chamber of Commerce for Brazil (Amcham), and member of the Permanent Staff of Arbitrators in several Mediation and Arbitrations Chambers. She was recently appointed by the Federal Senate to be part of a Commission of Jurists in charge of updating Brazilian Arbitration Act. She regularly participates in seminars on arbitration in Brazil and abroad, either as fellow or as a speaker and has distinguished articles on Arbitration published in different magazines and newspapers. Eleonora is fluent in Portuguese, English and French, and has elementary Italian and Spanish. | |
| Ligia Maura Costa Partner Ligia Maura Costa, Advocacia Ligia Maura COSTA is full professor at Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo - Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP) and professor a Sciences Po., Paris and Universität St. Gallen. She received her habilitation degree in international law (“Livre-Docência”) from Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (FDUSP). She holds a Ph.D. and a LL.M both in international trade law from the University of Paris-X and a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from FDUSP. She was Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and a postdoctoral fellow at Sciences Po, Paris. She was Associate Dean for International Relations at FGV-EAESP from 2004 until 2010. She is author of several books and many articles in Brazil and abroad. She has worked at the WTO in the Legal Affairs Division. In 2011, she was visiting professor at HEC Paris and at Tsinghua University – SEM (School of Economics and Management) and in 2012 she was visiting professor at St. Petersburg State University – GSOM (Graduate School of Management). She is senior partner of a law firm with offices in São Paulo and in Paris. She has been practicing law for more than twenty years, as lawyer counsel and arbitrator, acting in Brazil and abroad, advising companies, individuals, governments and internationa organizations. Ligia Maura Costa has extensive experience in internationa contracts negotiations, preparing legal opinions, structuring M&A and join ventures agreements and drafting and implementing CSR codes. | |
| Kelly Moraes General Counsel Honeywell Brazil Kelly Moraes is a Multinational General Counsel for Honeywell Brazil. Her main focus is Corporate and Commercial law. She has solid experience managing legal departments, including government relations, corporate responsibility, compliance and businesses across a variety of industries. She also has solid experience in structuring legal departments, managing and mitigating risks, Employment law, contractual and corporate law and Public bids. Kelly is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. | |
| Kenia Ruiz-Denoyés Chief Legal Counsel JCDecaux Kenia Ruiz-Denoyés is currently chief legal counsel for JCDecaux in
Latin America and is based in Sao Paulo. Kenia left the company’s HQ in Paris
to move to the São Paulo office in 2014 and now oversees the company’s operations
in 12 Latin American countries. Previously she served as HBI's Associate General Counsel Latin America,
managing a wide range of legal matters in 10 countries. In 2011, she moved to
Paris to join JCDecaux where she focused on Southern Europe and LatAm
operations. Prior to becoming an in-house counsel, Kenia was an experienced
business law attorney; she was an associate to Arias & Munoz's offices in
her native San Salvador. | |
| Dee Sekar Editor: Global Diversity Chambers and Partners Dee Sekar is a UK qualified solictor and Global Diversity Editor at Chambers & Partners. For the last 3 years, Dee has worked extensively on the Chambers Women in Law programme. She created the Chambers Women in Law blog which has established a global online discussion and community of female lawyers. In September 2013, she devised the Chambers Women in Law seminars. To date, Dee has moderated nine Women in Law seminars in the USA and Latin America. In just under a year, Dee has created a strong working relationship with hundreds of in-house lawyers in the USA and Latin America and works closely with the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, DirectWomen, Juridico de Saias (Brazil) and Association of Corporate Counsel (Brazil). In January 2015, Dee launched the Chambers Diversity program which encompasses gender, minority lawyers, LGBT, physical and social mobility and corporate social responsibility in the legal profession. Through research, seminars and awards, Chambers Diversity will be bringing a unique perspective to global diversity in the legal profession. Covering UK, Europe, Asia, USA and Latin America, the programme will give a platform to the most outstanding lawyers who have shown a real commitment to advancing diversity in the law. Chambers Diversity will also investigate the recruitment, retention and promotion of diverse lawyers in companies, law firms and barristers' chambers and will monitor this progress over time. | |
| Raquel Stein Partner Carvalho, Machado, Timm & Deffenti Advogados Raquel is partner of Carvalho, Machado, Timm & Deffenti Advogados and is based in Porto Alegre, South Brazil. Her practice is centered on International Contracts, Corporate/M&A and Arbitration. She is responsible for the implementation of complex cross border projects, and advising in international corporate and contractual negotiations across South America. Raquel received her Master of Law at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, post–graduate studies in Civil Procedural Law at the Academia Brasileira de Direito Processual Civil – ABDPC and a Law Degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. Raquel is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English as well as advanced French. | |
