About this event

We are delighted to announce details of our upcoming Chambers Ṣo Paulo Forum 2022 РBeyond Legal: the rules of business in the ESG era.

At this one-day Forum, law firm partners, corporate law leaders, business executives and influential GCs meet to discuss key legal and business topics affecting this market and the wider region.

Attendees will have the exclusive opportunity to gain insights from top legal experts, network with industry leaders and discover what they are doing to lead the way in their industry.

Agenda

08:30 – 09:30     Open Registration

09:30 – 09:45     Chambers Head of Brazil and Conference Chair Welcome
Juliana Gomes Ramalho Monteiro, Sócio – Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Luís Bulcão Pinheiro, Head of Brazil Research – Chambers and Partners

10:45 – 11:30       A Nova Indústria: como atividades econômicas-chave estão se reinventando na era do ESG
Tito Andrade, Sócio Diretor – Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Cristiana Lapa, VP Jurídica – Braskem
Marcelo Cunha, Gerente Jurídico – Suzano
Fabio Alperowitch, Portfolio Manager – FAMA Investimentos

12:00 – 12:45      Financiando o futuro: O desenvolvimento das normas para investimento de ESG
Camila Goldberg, Sócia – BMA Advogados
Luciana Ribeiro, Sócia Gerente e Fundadora – EB Capital
Florian Bartunek, CEO – Constelation Group
Rafaella Dortas, Diretora Executiva​ – BTG Pactual

12:45 – 12:50       A visão da Europa sobre ESG no Brasil Pedro Antonio Gouvêa Vieira, presidente da Eurocâmaras

12:50 – 14:00      Almoço

14:00 – 14:45      Solidariedade Contagiosa: As lições da pandemia para priorizar o ‘S’
Clara Serva, Sócia – TozziniFreire Advogados
Jos̩ Pimenta, Gerente S̻nior de Rela̵̤es Institucionais e Assuntos Governamentais РWhirlpool
Carlos Almiro de Magalḥes Melo, Diretor de Sustentabilidade e Gesṭo de Riscos РBRK Ambiental

15:00 – 15:30      A Agenda da Diversidade e Inclusão como parte de ESG
André Mileski, Sócio – Lefosse
Maria Rita Drummond, Vice-Presidente Juridico – Cosan

About our sponsors:

Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga Advogados

Mattos Filho, is structured to provide clients with top-notch services in various legal areas in a coordinated and integrated manner.  They allocate the best available resources to meet their clients’ specific demands, working in multidisciplinary teams whenever necessary. This work dynamic allows them to deliver tailor-made solutions to their clients and enhance their understanding of their business. Mattos Filho is leader in approximately 35 legal practice areas and work to ensure that all these areas are a benchmark for the market. While their practices are always evolving, it is also part of their strategy to create new business fronts. In that regard, they have created industry groups and new market niches within their firm, which combined with their comprehensive knowledge of the legal market and our clients’ demands, are examples of their efforts to keep them at the forefront in the provision of legal services.

Their clients include domestic and foreign corporations, financial institutions, investors, multilateral agencies, investment funds, pension funds, insurers and reinsurers and non-profit organizations. In addition to that, Mattos Filho Mattos Filho is headquartered in São Paulo, and has offices in Campinas, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, New York, and London.

Machado Meyer

We work to offer intelligent legal solutions that drive business that can transform the reality of our clients and society.

We have reached 50 years of history believing that we don’t need to do what everyone else is doing. We are different. We are sure that thinking ahead, anticipating trends, and exercising foresight provide us with the necessary background to confidently explore increasingly innovative horizons for the future.

We grew following the fast pace of Brazil’s expansion and we continue to do so today. Attracted by challenges, our attitude has always been to invest in people’s growth, develop new practices, and explore new sectors, with the purpose of providing legal intelligence to make our clients’ strategies viable.

We are a team of creative people who are resolute obstinate in the search for possible legal solutions. Together, we learn and build knowledge all the time, with hard work, dedication, and commitment.

In this new phase, we want to expand the concepts of commitment, empathy, and innovation. Amplify our actions in the perspective of the future, following the demands of the world and in favor of society’s development.

It is this spirit that we want to celebrate, because we believe that transformation is possible.

BMA Advogados

BMA began as a Corporate Law and M&A boutique, but the wide range of legal matters involved in doing business led it to broaden its vision and practice. The firm’s commitment to its clients and availability, agility and desire to innovate has made BMA what it is today: a full service law firm with a highly-motivated, integrated and specialized team made up of more than 600 professionals. BMA’s partners and associates have a profound knowledge of public and private sectors, both regulated and unregulated, and are tireless in the search for creative, bold, sophisticated and advantageous outcomes for clients. BMA’s analytical, questioning approach has allowed it to create customized, innovative and even unprecedented solutions that have shaped the way business is done in Brazil since the end of the 20th century. The firm has had a role in the creation of leading corporate groups doing business around the world, in sectors such as food and beverages, logistics and transportation, telecommunications, petrochemicals, steel and metals, banking and finance, real estate and construction, technology, and education.

TozziniFreire

Developing safe and innovative legal solutions with the commitment and determination to deliver results is how TozziniFreire works. It is in our DNA to make significant contributions to our clients’ business strategies in an increasingly complex environment, offering comprehensive advice and anticipating corporate legal issues.

We are a law firm acting in 55 areas of corporate law. We offer a unique structure with 25 industry groups and 4 international desks staffed by lawyers who are considered experts by the market and key national and international guides.

Ever since its establishment in 1976, TozziniFreire has played a central role in many of the most significant transactions in the Brazilian market, contributing to the growth of the local economy and becoming one of the most respected law firms in Brazil.

Besides providing the best legal solutions to clients with integrity and innovation, TozziniFreire also has the mission of contributing to the improvement of Brazilian society with diversity, inclusion and social responsibility.

Lefosse

Lefosse is a full-service law firm that offers expert consultancy in all areas of Law and offers solid experience in sophisticated legal services in domestic and international scenarios. It has been recognized in the main global legal awards and rankings, such as Chambers Global 2022 and Chambers Brazil 2021. Lefosse invests in inclusion, diversity, and a multidisciplinary work approach in the areas of Law. It has 47 partners with extensive experience in strategic markets as well as another 500 professionals.

Lefosse is a protagonist in the most relevant transactions carried out in the country’s Energy and Infrastructure sectors. According to TTR – a financial technology platform that provides a balance of transactional activities carried out in the Brazilian market in 2021, Lefosse handled more than BRL 156 billion in M&A and Equity Capital Markets, while in Private Equity the firm exceeded BRL 14 billion in its operations. In Energy and Infrastructure transactions, Lefosse advised businesses that turned over R$ 15 billion.

ESPM

ESPM is an innovative business school, a Brazilian reference in higher education in the areas of Communication, Marketing, Consumption, Business Administration, and Creative Economy. Its intellectual and human capital is distributed among campuses in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, and Florianópolis. Teaching excellence and market focus are the foundations of ESPM.

Challenges and changes have always been part of its history.

ESPM’s Law Course is another of these challenges. With the DNA of innovation, it is the only Brazilian undergraduate degree with an applied technology axis and flexible curricular matrix, designed to form creative professionals, digitally fluent and prepared for all areas of law, the information society and ready to act in a constantly changing context.

ESPM encourages the renewal of the Brazilian Law scenario, with real legal strategists: who master the Classical and the Contemporary, demanded by a connected, digital society, living, consuming, and producing in the era of artificial intelligence and the internet.

ESPM’s Law Course counts on a dream team of professors, composed both of professionals who are a reference in corporate, tax, civil, and criminal law, as well as the brightest minds in the new legal areas created by technology. Assisted by bold methodologies and cutting-edge infrastructure.

ESPM is extending the guidelines of traditional law.

ESPM Law Course. Inusitude for the Law of the future.

Miranda Coutinho, Carvalho & Advogados

Miranda Coutinho, Carvalho & Advogados was founded in 1984 by Mr. Jacinto Nelson de Miranda Coutinho, senior partner and Full Professor of Criminal Procedure at the Federal University of Paraná, initially with different partners and name. After eight years as a partner, in 2015, Professor Edward Rocha de Carvalho became senior partner, and the Firm was renamed as it is.

For decades the Firm has provided criminal law services in litigation and advisory capacities, with tailored legal advice, a thorough analysis, and complete risk assessment and liability recommendations, meeting the highest standards in efficiency and professionalism.

The Firm represents domestic and international clients in a variety of complex criminal law demands, in criminal litigation proceedings, internal corporate investigations, criminal compliance, plea and leniency agreements, specializing in white-collar crimes.

Aiming to provide the best results possible to the clients, the legal team combines consistent experience and the constant pursuit of academic excellence, being recognized as one of Brazil’s top criminal law firms.