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Itaúsa is one of the largest private conglomerates in Brazil, and controls several companies active in the country’s financial, real estate, healthcare, chemicals and electronics industries. In the capacity of legal, risk and compliance director, Maria Fernanda Caramuru heads the legal team from the company headquarters in São Paulo. Fernanda has been in the role since 2016 and recently recruited legal counsel Edgard Pascarelli Assumpção to support her in handling each of the three aforementioned functions. A commercially-minded team that enables the company to achieve its strategic goals, the legal department was involved in all stages of Itaúsa’s July 2017 acquisition of shares in Alpargatas, a leading company in Latin America’s footwear sector from private investment holding company J&F Investimentos, in a deal worth R$1.75bn.