Fernando Nabais da Furriela

Furriela Advogados is as full-service law firm, dedicated to providing the highest quality legal services to domestic and foreign clients. We aim to establish long-term partnerships with our clients, to know their business and to provide “tailor-made”, efficient solutions.

Our lawyers are highly capacitated, having relevant international experiences, including Masters in Law and Graduate degrees in highly regarded universities around the globe. Moreover, our professionals are fluent in many languages and are constantly engaged in various academic, voluntary and social organizations.

Furriela Advogados was founded in 1990, just before Brazil began to liberalize its legislation and procedures and the country’s economy was opened for international trade and investment, which resulted in a significant increase in foreign investment in the country and privatizations in various sectors.

In this context of modernization and larger insertion of Brazil in the international scenario, the law firm began to represent foreign clients with a high degree of professionalism in structuring their companies and businesses in Brazil, offering legal support in all Business Law related areas, such as Corporate Law, Tax, Contracts, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law, Labor Law, Banking Law and Real Estate Law.

Furriela Advogados was also one of the first firms in Brazil to render specialized legal services in Environmental Law, a very technical area of the law, in which besides advising our clients and negotiating on their behalf, the firm also contributed to the development and formulation of government policies on environmental law issues.

Another area in which, Furriela Advogados has gained considerable reputation is the law of non-governmental organizations and entities of the so-called “third sector”. The firm was among the first law firms in Brazil to provide legal advice on the structuring, funding, and functioning of national and international organizations, focusing on environmental and social issues.

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Education:  

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (LL.B., 1984); Universidade Católica de Lisboa (Graduate Course on European Law, 1987); The Hague Academy of International Law (Public International Law, 1987); Universidade de São Paulo (Graduate Program on Business Law, 1988), Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (LL.M., 2004/credits accomplished); 

Associations: 

Brazilian Bar Association; Association of Lawyers of Sao Paulo; American Chamber of Commerce – AMCHAM; Swiss-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce – Swisscam and District of Columbia Bar Association, admitted as a Foreign Attorney – Brazilian Law; 

Chair of Amnesty International Brazil. Former Chair of Greenpeace Brazil (2002-2006). Former Board Member of Greenpeace International (1996-2002) 

Publications: 

Editor and Co-editor of the book “Biodiversidade e Propriedade Intelectual” (2001)

Writer of “Doing Business in Brazil” 

Practice Areas:

Corporate Law, Civil Litigation and Environmental Law 

Languages: 

English and Spanish

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