German Desk, Corporate & Mergers and Acquisitions, International Trade / WTO, Commercial Contracts, Dispute Resolution, Shipping/Maritime & Port, Oil, Gas & Biofuels, Insurance, Reinsurance & Pension Funds and Infrastructure & Projects and Compliance & Investigations

Partner

Partner Alex Backsmann, Head of German Speaking Desk of Veirano Advogados, is qualified as a Lawyer in Brazil, Germany and England and has a Ph.D. in comparative law, obtained in Germany based on research undertaken in the U.S.A.

Alex is a partner in our Corporate/M&A, as well as Arbitration Departments. He has profound experience in advising clients in corporate law, including cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions and in representing them in international and complex arbitral proceedings.  He acts in many of the more sophisticated transactions and arbitral proceedings in Brazil.

In terms of work organized, coordinated and supervised by him, in connection with the firms’ German Speaking Desk, Alex is very versatile, as such works involve all practice areas. He works closely aligned with both the client and his partners from the other areas of practice, safeguarding an efficient management of the clients’ legal projects in Brasil.

Before joining Veirano, Till Alexander held a management position as Head of Corporate Services Legal Affairs of the Multinational Group Germanischer Lloyd (today DNV GL). There, he was responsible for the corporate law activities, which concerned 160 group companies in over 80 countries (including the preparation of Shareholders’, Supervisory and Executive Board Meetings). Together with his team, he provided legal advice to all central services departments at Head Office, including Finance, Tax, Human Resources, Business Auditing and Information Technology. He looked after the Intellectual Property of the Group and the related strategies, drafted the standard corporate procedures of the Group and provided legal services regarding bids and contractual negotiations with important clients from the maritime, oil & gas and renewables sectors. Alex was also Compliance Contact Person.

Previously, Alex worked with two major German law firms and at one of the most prestigious law firms in Chile, he specialized on corporate (including Mergers & Acquisitions) commercial, and procedural / arbitral matters.

Alex has provided legal advice on a vast variety of legal issues to many clients from Austria, Germany, other member countries of the European Union, Switzerland, the U.S.A., the Commonwealth and Latin America, including publicly listed groups, multinational, as well as family owned companies, and the following industries: commodities, automobile, metallurgy, maritime, oil & gas, renewable energy, mining, real estate, construction, food, telecommunications, banking, insurance and public entities.

German, Spanish, English and Portuguese

Lateinamerikaverein e.V. (Industry Association for Latin America in Germany), since 2005 International Bar Association (IBA), e.g., as member of the Corporate/M&A and Arbitration Committees, since 2010 Brazilian – German Chamber of Commerce (AHK), since 2013 “Centro de Arbitragem das Eurocâmaras” (CAE) – Arbitration Center of the European Chambers of Commerce in Brasil, since 2014 DIS – Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit (German Institution for Arbitration), since 2015 ELArb - - European – Latin-American Center for Arbitration, since 2016 LCIA – London Court of International Arbitration, since 2017 VIAC – Vienna International Arbitration Center, since 2019

Continuing Legal Education on conferences about corporate law and arbitration, e.g., of the IBA and AIJA Post-Graduate studies in Corporate and Commercial Law, “Fachanwalt für Handels- und Gesellschaftsrecht”, Germany, 2008 Doctor of Law (Ph.D.), Westphalian Wilhelms-University Law School, Germany, 2003 Visiting scholar, Doctoral research, Duke University School of Law, U.S.A. 2001 Studies of Law, parallel classes in Economics, Westphalian Wilhelms-University, Germany, 2000