About

Since joining Cielo in 2011, Julio César Caciatori Martins has excelled as a legal manager. Having more than 15 years of in-house legal experience and in financial institutions and top tier law firms, Martins plays a key role in the legal department at Latin America’s top credit and debit card payment systems company. He specialises in civil, commercial, labour, banking, bankruptcy and judicial recovery law as well as handling all strategic litigation for the firm, whether it is in civil, consumer, labour, tax or criminal areas. He is a business minded in-house counsel with strategic planning and business emphasis making sure that the legal department aides the business in its goals, rather than act as a blocker. A nominator says that he, ‘has a great knowledge about Brazilian credit and debit card operations, with a great capacity to face the most varied issues and challenges involved in the sector. He is an example of an innovative in-house counsel in Brazil’.