Experience and dynamism that delivers
practical solutions and high technical rigor

Master’s Degree in Civil Law – University of São Paulo (USP). Post Graduate Degree in Contract Law – Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/SP). Bachelor of Laws – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); academic experience at Gießen University (Germany) and Max-Planck-Institut of Hamburg (Germany). Member of the Brazilian Arbitration Committee (CBAr), Private Right Institute (Instituto de Direito Privado – IDiP), and the Cultural Studies Institute (Instituto de Estudos Culturalistas – IEC). Fernando is also a member of the Special Committee on Arbitration and Civil Law of the Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Section.

Post-doctoral, Ph.D., and Master’s degree in Economic Law, Financial Law, and Tax – University of São Paulo (USP). Master of Laws – Harvard Law School, on Estudar Foundation scholarship. 2016 Harvard Law Academic Fellow. 2015/2016 president of the Harvard Law School Brazilian Studies Association. Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), the Brazilian Institute of Tax (Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Tributário – IBDT), and the Brazilian Association of Financial Law (Associação Brasileira de Direito Financeiro – ABDF). Tenured professor at Ibmec/SP law school.

Master in Comparative Law – Kent College of Law, Chicago, USA; MBE Energy PUC – Rio, Brazil; Bachelor of Laws – Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ); International Tax Planning, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, USA; Executive Program, Northwestern University (Kellogg), Chicago, USA; Contracts and Negotiations, Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN); Specialization in Tax Law – Universidade Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro. Former Regional Director for Latin America of AIEN and currently the Brazilian representative in such board; former Deputy President of the Barzilian Bar Association Oil & Gas Committee; member of The Energy Institute, USA.