About

‘Accessible, creative and easy to work with’ Alexandra Bandeira is an up-and-coming figure who has been assistant general counsel at Brazil’s Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) since 2008. Her role has a strong transactional element and one advocate who has worked on a number of acquisitions with her notes ‘she led on all the processes and undertakes every aspect. She’s good at deadlines and documents, and is very detail focused, she wants to grasp every facet. She prefers to handle each case rather than leaving them with external firms and in that sense she is very much part of the trend towards greater pro-activity that we have seen in the last few years here in Brazil’. Well respected in the market as a consequence, ‘she’s a pleasure to work with, even when the workload is heavy and intense’, she is also ‘a strong team player, very inclusive and good at working with, encouraging and developing a team’, something that has assisted when it came to restructuring the company’s legal department and implementing new sets of procedures and documentation. Perceived by observers as ‘more transactional than contentious’, she counts among her most satisfying achievements the successful salvaging and closure of an M&A deal that had turned sour, finding an amicable solution (and thereby terminating a relevant arbitration) under considerable pressures from a sizeable and significant pool of the seller’s creditors. Since 2011 she has also been on the board of CSN’s Workers Pension Fund (Caixa Beneficente dos Empregados da Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional)