Commercial Litigation Law Firm of the Year - Brazil

Firm Profile

Ana Basilio is a Bachelor of Law from Universidade Cândido Mendes, she has worked in large offices of Brazil, among them, Sergio Bermudes’ firm, where she worked for eleven years. She was also a partner of Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Firm (Baker & McKenzie), being responsible, in Brazil, for the civil and commercial litigation area, from July, 2002 to December, 2005. She is a post graduate in North American Law from Wisconsin University, and is a specialist in civil and commercial litigation as well as in arbitration. She taught Civil Law in the Post Graduation Course of the Escola Superior de Advocacia (Lawyer’s Superior School), from 1993 to 2001, and she’s the author of several books about corporate law. From 2004 to 2006, she was the President of the Mediation and Arbitration Chamber of the Brazilian Bar Association, in which she also acted as President of the Lawyer's Association Committee, from October 2003 to December 2006, Vice-President of the Arbitration Committee, during the same period, besides being elected as Chief Counselor of the Brazilian Bar Association during the three-year periods from 2000 to 2003 and 2003 to 2006. Additionally, she was appointed as member of the Committee to Fight Piracy and Unfair Competition of the Federal Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association during period of July

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2005 to December 2006, and of the Special Committee to Fight Piracy and Unfair Competition of the Federal Committee of the Brazilian Lawyers Association, which she is still a member of. She is also a member of the Editorial Committee of the Arbitration and Mediation Magazine, and member of the Corporate law Committee from the Escola da Magistratura (Judge’s School) of the High Court of the State of Rio de Janeiro.

She is a professor in Fundação Getúlio Vargas, in the Arbitration post graduation course. She is internationally recognized and was elected as a Leading Individual in Latin America, in the corporate litigation area, by the English magazine "Latin Lawyer", in the year of 2006, as well as leading Individual in the list of the best lawyers in the world in the area of corporate litigation by the English magazine "Who's Who", in 2006, 2009 and 2010. She was also elected by the "Análise da Advocacia" magazine in the years 2006, 2008 and 2010 as one of the 10 best lawyers of the civil area in Brazil. In December 2010, she was elected a member of the TRE – Tribunal Regional Eleitoral (Electoral Court).

Ana Basilio Ana Tereza Basilio

Tel: 55 (21) 2277 4200 Fax: 55 (21) 2210 6316 Email: abasilio@basilioadvogados.com.br Site: www.basilioadvogados.com.br

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