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Bruna de Cesare
Bruna de Cesare
Partner at KLA Advogados. As a partner in Labor Law, Bruna De Cesare has a strong presence in both individual and collective lawsuits, particularly those of high complexity, in both judicial and administrative realms. She excels in risk assessment, drafting opinions, contracts, agreements, and policies. Additionally, she is involved in implementing compensation and benefits plans, crisis management, as well as providing support in merger and acquisition operations and corporate restructuring.
Flávia Marcilio
Flávia Marcilio
Partner at KLA Advogados Flávia Marcilio is a partner at KLA and has been practicing law for over 30 years, specializing in environmental and real estate law. She has extensive experience in sectors such as agribusiness, forestry investment, mining, carbon credit markets, and complex real estate investments. Additionally, she focuses on ESG, energy, sanitation, and other regulated sectors, including human and animal health, representing clients before regulatory bodies such as Anvisa (National Health Surveillance Agency), MAPA (Ministry of Agriculture), and MMA (Ministry of the Environment).
Henrique Lopes
Henrique Lopes
Partner at KLA Advogados. Henrique Lopes is a founding partner at KLA and specializes in Tax Law. His broad expertise encompasses consultancy and litigation related to both direct and indirect taxes, with a focus on business structuring, corporate groups, and logistical chains across various industries, including telecommunications, automotive, and food. He holds an LL.M (Master of Laws) in Comparative Law from the New York University and actively participates in various tax debate groups.
José Davi Fidalgo
José Davi Fidalgo
Partner at KLA Advogados. José Davi Fidalgo is a partner at KLA, specializing in Environmental Law and Real Estate Law. He brings extensive experience in assisting industries, financial institutions, and agribusiness in obtaining environmental licenses and liaising with public authorities. His expertise also includes business structuring, real estate funds, and transactions involving the Carbon Market and Land Regularization. He holds specializations in Real Estate Registry Law from the National Registry School, in Real Estate Law from Secovi-SP, and Environmental Compliance with Technical and Legal Requirements from CETESB.
Laura Cossi
Laura Cossi
Partner at KLA Advogados. Laura Cossi is a partner in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Venture Capital, advising clients on domestic and cross-border operations with a focus on M&A and Private Equity. She has experience in Venture Capital transactions and structures, offshore matters, representing investment funds, VC firms, and startups. Additionally, she handles corporate governance and corporate reorganizations. She began her career at KLA in 2009 and worked as an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in New York after completing her LL.M at Stanford Law School. She serves clients from various industries, especially in the telecommunications and technology sectors.
Livia Siviero
Livia Siviero
Partner at KLA Advogados. Livia Siviero Huh is a partner at KLA and specializes in Capital Markets and Real Estate Business, with a focus on debt and equity transactions, securitization, investment funds, and asset advisory. She has worked with prominent companies such as Vale S.A and Consórcio Construtor Belo Monte. A graduate of the Federal University of Paraná, she holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Financial and Capital Market Law from Insper and a certificate in Financial Markets from Yale University. Additionally, she has expertise in Environmental Law and Sustainability from PUC-SP.
Luanda Backheuser
Luanda Backheuser
Partner at KLA Advogados. Luanda Backheuser is a partner at KLA and specializes in Real Estate and Agricultural Law, with a focus on Real Estate Transactions, Agribusiness, Carbon Market, and the forestry sector. She is affiliated with organizations such as MDDI (Real Estate Law Debate Forum), GRI Agribusiness, and Ibradim (Brazilian Institute of Real Estate Law). Luanda is also a speaker at national events and serves as a member of the editorial board for the Real Estate Debate Magazine.
Luís Flávio Neto
Luís Flávio Neto
Partner at KLA Advogados. Partner of Tax Law, Luís Flávio Neto specializes in consultancy and federal administrative litigation, focusing on direct taxes and international taxation. He served as a counselor on the Superior Chamber of the Administrative Tax Appeals Board (CARF) for several years. As a Director at IBDT, he oversees the Master’s program in International Tax Law and serves as a professor at other institutions. He is also a member of the High Finance and Taxation Studies Council of the São Paulo Commercial Association and the International Association of Tax Judges (IATJ).
Mariana Cortez
Mariana Cortez
Partner at KLA Advogados. A founding partner of KLA, Mariana Cortez is part of the Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Real Estate teams. With over 30 years of experience, she assists clients in M&A transactions across various industries such as education, retail, pulp and paper, and real estate markets. Her expertise includes joint venture negotiations, due diligence, contract negotiations, as well as rural land acquisitions with forest assets and sale and leaseback agreements.
Mário Fioratti
Mário Fioratti
Partner at KLA Advogados. Mario Fioratti is a partner in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, and Venture Capital, providing services to clients across various industries such as technology and real estate. With experience in various operations involving both domestic and international clients, he operates on both the buy-side and sell-side. Mario is a member of angel investor associations GVAngels and Amcham Angels and also a membershio of OAB-SP’s Special Comission of Technology and Innovation.
Melissa Kanô
Melissa Kanô
Partner at KLA Advogados. Melissa Kanô has been with KLA since its foundation in 2002 and is a partner in Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions. With expertise in the advertising and marketing industry, she is responsible for the Media and Entertainment department at KLA. She also oversees the Asian Desk of the firm and is a member of the Council and Executive Committee of the International Lawyers Network (ILN), an international network of which KLA has been a part since 2014.
Patrícia Braga
Patrícia Braga
Partner at KLA Advogados. Patrícia Braga is a partner specializing in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, with experience in the automotive, chemical, agricultural, healthcare, and educational industries. Her expertise also extends to Private Equity and Venture Capital, everyday corporate matters, corporate governance, as well as corporate reorganizations. She is the founder of the KLA’s German Desk and obtained her LL.M degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Germany).
Roberto  Lambauer
Roberto Lambauer
Partner at KLA Advogados. Roberto Lambauer is a partner specializing in Public Law, boasting over 15 years of experience in regulated sectors such as sanitation, life sciences, technology, security, urban mobility, and agribusiness. He handles both advisory and litigation matters involving infrastructure, tenders and contracts, government investigations, public service concessions, and PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships). He advises clients before entities like the Court of Auditors, Public Prosecutor’s Office, and oversight bodies. With a strong background in compliance.
Tiago Cortez
Tiago Cortez
Partner at KLA Advogados. Tiago Cortez is a partner in the areas of Conflict Resolution: Litigation and Arbitration and Competition Law. He holds extensive experience in litigation involving corporate, administrative, and regulatory matters, handling both national and international arbitrations. With over 15 years of practice before CADE (Administrative Council for Economic Defense), he has represented companies in merger transactions. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Law from USP and an MSc in Regulation from the London School of Economics. Tiago has previously taught Regulatory Law and Capital Markets at FGV (Fundação Getúlio Vargas).
Victor Polizelli
Victor Polizelli
Partner at KLA Advogados. Since 2002 at KLA, Victor Polizelli provides consultancy in corporate taxes, corporate accounting, international taxation, and transfer pricing. He has extensive experience in international structuring, transactions (M&A), real estate projects, implementation of policy, and review of transfer pricing, analysis, and calculations of Pillar Two, with a focus on the agribusiness, food and beverage, automotive, digital economy, pharmaceutical, mining, telecommunications, and retail sectors. With a Doctorate in Economic Financial and Tax Law, he is a professor and coordinator at the Brazilian Institute of Tax Law (IBDT).