People

Samuel Carvalho Gaudêncio

scg@gaudencioadvogados.com
New York / São Paulo 
Samuel, Founding Partner and residing in the United States, is one of the most prominent lawyers in mergers and acquisitions involving Brazil and the United States. He brings extensive experience working with global clients and transactions, having represented entrepreneurs, families, and Brazilian and American multinationals in significant domestic and international mergers and acquisitions. His expertise spans a broad range of areas, including complex commercial negotiations between Brazil, the U.S., and China, global corporate restructurings, family successions, as well as mediations and corporate and commercial arbitrations.Samuel also serves as a trustee for several wealthy family businesses, consistently advising founders, successors, and C-level executives. Additionally, he has led key pre-immigration and post-immigration tax planning initiatives, tax administrative litigation, and holds positions on the boards of directors of companies in Brazil, the U.S., and Commonwealth countries. As a tax specialist, he has successfully defended major cases before the Board of Tax Appeals of the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service and managed several corporate and tax restructurings. His wealth planning experience is particularly notable in pre- and post-M&A structuring for private clients. Samuel is also a member of the John Henry Wigmore Alumni Club of Northwestern University.

Cassiano D’Angelo Braz 

cdb@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo 
Cassiano has solid experience in his areas of activity, representing several market-leading clients in the chemical industry, pulp and paper industry, printing industry, security and IT service providers and in the banking sector. 

Patrícia Cabral Bittencourt

pcb@gaudencioadvogados.com
New York / São Paulo 
Patrícia has been a lawyer for over 13 years and holds licenses to practice law in Brazil and the state of New York, USA. With a solid background in corporate law, her practice spans both domestic and international markets. Patrícia excels in corporate restructuring, corporate transactions, corporate mediation and arbitration, bankruptcy, and judicial recovery, always bringing a strategic and integrated approach to each case. 

Flávia Coelho Warde

fcw@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo / New York
Flávia has more than 20 years of professional experience and has earned the trust of her Brazilian and foreign clients for corporate legal advisory, and broader legal and business multinational strategic advisory.With solid, wide and internationally recognized experience in her practice areas, she has being responsible for assisting her clients – multinational and national business groups, entrepreneurs, families and family business groups, private equity and venture capital funds – in important Brazilian and cross-border M&As and investments, including capital markets and debt transactions, and additionally, she has been advising her domestic and foreign clients with their wealth and tax planning (private clients) and with their corporate and family governance projects. Flávia also has important practices in corporate litigation, arbitration and mediation.Flávia has significant experience in large Brazilian and North American law firms (Chicago, IL-USA), and also worked as General Counsel and Legal Executive Counsellor of large multinational business groups in areas such as asset management, private equity/venture capital, media, education, TV, e-commerce, logistics, architecture, construction and infra-structure (including publicly held companies).

Jonathan Barros Vita

jbv@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
Partner of the Firm, Jonathan has had a distinguished career in institutional roles in the field of tax law, including representing taxpayers in administrative courts at all three levels of the Brazilian federation. He is frequently called upon as a consultant and expert in various ventures and legislative projects.

Diego Sales Seoane 

dss@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
Worked at major Brazilian law firms, focusing both on structuring investment funds and handling tax litigation. He also served as the head of legal for a prominent Brazilian economic group, assuming various significant positions, including managing the group’s litigation (covering tax, civil, labor, administrative improbity, and environmental cases) and the corporate department. Most notably, he played a crucial role during a period of severe institutional and financial crisis for the group, being the in-house lawyer responsible for the group’s judicial reorganization (at the time, the largest judicial reorganization in São Paulo). 

Elisangela Lima dos Santos Borges 

elb@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
With a broad career in law, Elisângela has solid and outstanding experience in Tax Law, Family and Succession Law and Civil Law, both from a litigation and consulting perspective. She provides legal advice to entrepreneurs on family matters, asset preservation and succession planning.

Henrique Ribeiro Tochilovsky

hrt@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
Lawyer in São Paulo, Henrique attends to Civil, Tax, Business and Financial Market Law in Brazil, with experience in consulting and litigation on state and federal lawcourts, as well as administrative procedures with the Brazilian S.E.C. (“CVM”), Central Bank (“BACEN”) and Brazilian I.R.S (“RFB”).

Thaís Molina Pinheiro

tmp@gaudencioadvogados.com
New York / São Paulo 
Thaís Pinheiro is an attorney specializing in Criminal Law, with solid experience in internal investigations and strategic criminal incidents involving victims and defendants. Throughout her career, Thaís represented companies, entrepreneurs, as well as Brazilian and foreign individuals. Thais has worked in major federal police cases, searches and seizures and high-profile criminal cases throughout Brazil. Furthermore, she has experience in plea agreements, as well as other agreements provided for in Brazilian legislation.

Fernando de Oliveira Zonta

foz@gaudencioadvogados.com
New York / São Paulo 
Lawyer specializing in Criminal Law, Fernando has solid experience in plea agreements, crimes involving cryptocurrency and strategic criminal cases involving victims and defendants. Throughout his career, Fernando represented companies, entrepreneurs, as well as Brazilian and foreign individuals. Fernando worked in major federal police cases and high-profile criminal justice cases throughout Brazil. Furthermore, he has experience in police investigations, criminal actions and agreements provided for in the Brazilian legislation.  

Maria Glauce Carvalho Gaudêncio

mgg@gaudencioadvogados.com
João Pessoa
In the field of law, she has distinguished experience in labor relations, providing advisory and consultancy services to various companies, including audits for the diagnosis and prevention of labor liabilities, covering the area of health and safety at work.

Eduardo Jordão Cesaroni

ejc@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
Eduardo graduated in Law School in 1991 and has more than 30 years’ experience in the legal profession, working mainly in the areas of Civil, Consumer and Real Estate Law, with extensive experience in both litigation and consultancy. 

Renata Tobias Rocha

rtr@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
Lawyer with solid experience in labor law, both from a litigation and advisory perspective. At office since 2014 she has represented several market-leading clients in the chemical, pulp and paper and printing industries, as well as security and banking service providers.

Daisy Carolina Cardoso 

dac@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
Lawyer with solid experience in labor law. At office since 2013, she has represented several market-leading clients in the chemical, pulp and paper and printing industry segments, as well as security service providers, outsourced and in the technology and software sector.

João Vaz de Aguiar Neto 

jvn@gaudencioadvogados.com
João Pessoa
Lawyer with solid experience in Civil Law. Provides consultancy in extrajudicial preventive measures, with risk analysis of medium and high complexity cases. João also has extensive experience in both public and private litigation and advisory services, in both administrative and judicial spheres.

Larissa Renata Cezar Neves

lcn@gaudencioadvogados.com
João Pessoa
Larissa has a strong background in Labor Law, both in contentious and advisory aspects, with extensive experience in companies.

Juliana Marinho Vieira da Costa

jmc@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
Juliana has solid experience in the private sector in the civil, contracts, litigation and advisory areas.

Cinthia Nayra da Silva Aguiar

csa@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo 
Cinthia has solid experience in customer service in the labor and social security areas. 

Nanci Lima de Menezes

nlm@gaudencioadvogados.com
João Pessoa
Labor lawyer with experience in individual and collective mediation and negotiation before the Regional Labor Courts, the Public Labor Prosecutor’s Office, and the Ministry of Labor.

Marcos Campos Junior

mcj@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
With more than twenty years dedicated to Law practice, Marcos has earned the trust of his clients both to discuss issues related to legal topics in which he has extensive experience and broader legal strategies.

Elaine dos Santos Dantas

esd@gaudencioadvogados.com
João Pessoa
With a broad career in law, Elaine has solid and distinguished experience in Labor Consultancy and Litigation.

Karla Assunção Abdanur

kaa@gaudencioadvogados.com
São Paulo
With a solid legal career and extensive experience in civil, diffuse, and collective areas, Karla offers skills in legal guidance in the corporate sphere. Her professional journey includes a significant contribution in Public Prosecutors’ Offices in Minas Gerais and Goiás, dedicated to public support, assistance in the preparation of ministerial documents, and monitoring of Public Civil Investigations. 
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