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Profiles of the LL.M. Students (Corporate Governance & Practice)Please note that this page includes only the profiles of those students who consented to having their information posted here. Carolina Barbeiro, Brazil
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Priscila Bastazin |
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Priscila Bastazin earned her degree as Bachelor of Law (J.D. equivalent) in 2005 at Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo - PUC/SP, Brazil, and in 2006 passed the Brazilian Bar Exam. Since 2003, Priscila works at Linklaters in cooperation with Lefosse Advogados, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, being 3 years as an intern and 3 and a half years as an associate. She has experience in the corporate practice area, with focus on international and domestic M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and foreign investments in Brazil. She has participated in projects in the sectors of petrochemicals, forestry & paper, sugar cane, media and automotive. Back to the list of LL.M. CGP students.
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Henrique Bertolo Canarim |
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Henrique Bertolo Canarim earned his LL.B. degree from the University of São Paulo Law School in 2006 and is a member of the Brazilian Bar Association since 2007. He joined the legal department of the Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange - BM&F in 2004, where he specialized in providing preemptive legal support for the Exchange's internal departments and subsidiaries in areas such as market and trading regulation, development of new products, contracts, corporate restructurings and mergers and acquisitions. Henrique advised BM&F's demutualization process, the cross-investment and strategic partnership between BM&F and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, BM&F's Initial Public Offering, and the merger between BM&F and BOVESPA - the São Paulo Stock Exchange ("Best Domestic M&A Transaction in 2008", according to LatinFinance Magazine). He also worked on the introduction of regulation for Direct Market Access for derivatives trading and was responsible for BM&F's and the Brazilian Commodities Exchange arbitration chambers. Henrique taught the "Financial Markets Regulations" and "Ethics in the Financial Markets" classes on BM&F's Educational Institute in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Before joining BM&F, Henrique worked at Levy & Salomão Advogados Law Firm, as an intern at their Banking and Financial Markets practice. Henrique is fluent in Portuguese (native), English, Spanish and French. Back to the list of LL.M. CGP students.
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Emma Channing |
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Emma earned her LL.B degree from Durham University (United Kingdom) in 1997. Emma continued her studies at Durham for further year, earning an LL.M. in International and European Legal Studies in 1998, while also working as a course writer and tutor for Introduction to Law (dedicated course for science faculty students) and Public Law. After graduation, Emma joined the London office of Herbert Smith LLP, a leading UK based international law firm, and her training contract (two year long form of apprenticeship that is part of English qualification) “seats” were in Litigation, Corporate, IP/IT and European and Competition Law (Brussels office). Emma qualified to admission to the Supreme Court of England & Wales in September 2001, and joined an M&A group at Herbert Smith LLP specialising in high technology and telecoms businesses, gaining experience in IPOs, restructuring and telecoms. Four years later, in December 2005, Emma joined the London office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP in order to gain further experience of high quality international deals in an environment with considerable deal flow where she could learn from exceptional mentors. Emma has a wide range of practice experience, having worked with a number of private equity and funds clients as well as industry players, and in particular, Emma has expertise with respect to wind farms and Russian banks. In the summer of 2008 Emma passed the Colorado Bar Exam and was admitted to the Colorado Bar in October 2008, and also hopes to be admitted in New York and California. |
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Vanessa Fiusa |
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Vanessa Fiusa is from Brazil and in 2003 received an LL.B. from the Law School of Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (J.D. equivalent), and a graduate degree in Business Administration (M.B.A. equivalent) from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP). For five years she acted as In-House Counsel for Banco Société Générale. She assisted on general corporate law issues and international contracts. Since 2006, Vanessa worked in the Capital Markets group of Mattos Filho Advogados, which has one of the most prestigious corporate practices in Brazil. She has supervised a team of approximately 20 equity and debt capital markets transactions. During 2008/2009 Vanessa was involved in Latin American corporate transactions, such as securities transactions, funding-related deals and public bids in Brazil, as an international associate for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York. |
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Guilherme is from Brazil and holds since 2003 an LL.B. from the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP), a Corporate Governance Certificate from New York University, a Corporate Law - Join Stock Corporations Certificate from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) and an International Relations certificate from the Research Center for International Relations at USP (NUPRI-Núcleo de Pesquisa em Relações Internacionais). Since 2001 Guilherme works in Pinheiro Neto Advogados, which has one of the most prestigious corporate practices in Brazil. For seven years (2001-2008), as a member of the Corporate group, he has advised domestic and multi-national corporations, private equity funds and investment banks on a wide range of M&A and capital market transactions. During 2008/2009 Guilherme worked in Davis Polk & Wardwell (New York, NY) as an international associate in their Capital Markets/M&A team, focusing on capital markets and Spanish and Latin American deals and restructurings. At the age of fourteen, he won a best prize sponsored by Revista Veja (one of Brazil’s most renowned magazines) with a paper about the Brazilian Future. He is fluent in Portuguese (native), English and has working knowledge of Spanish. | ||
Last updated on 31 October 2009.
