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Fernanda Girardi Tavares

Fernanda Girardi Tavares

Work Department

Contracts and Data Protection & Cybersecurity

Position

Partner

Career

With over two decades of experience in commercial contracts, including the development and negotiation of infrastructure, distribution, and technology contracts, Fernanda Tavares has wide experience counseling Brazilian and international clients on contractual and data protection matters.

She provides counseling on a regular basis to businesses operating in a wide variety of fields, such as alternative energy, technology, construction, electronics, and service industries.

She also counsels clients in complicated mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions as well as incorporation of joint ventures.

Languages

Portuguese (native), English, and Italian.

Memberships

Member of the Legal Intelligence Committee of the Brazilian Association of Information Technology Companies (ASSESPRO)  Member of the International Association of Privacy (IAPP) 

Education

Master’s degree in Private Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) - 2008 Post-graduate diploma in Contracts and Civil Liability from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) - 2002 Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) - 2000

Personal

Coordinator of the Data Protection Committee of the Federation of Business Entities of Rio Grande do Sul (FEDERASUL) 

Leisure

Currently serving as a substitute assistant lecturer at the Department of Private Law and Civil Procedural Law at the Law School at UFRGS, where she has previously taught students in the courses of Civil Law, Institutions of Law, and Intellectual Property (2009) Guest lecturer of the post-graduate program in Contracts at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)

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