General (In-House) Counsels in Brazil: Career, Professional Profile and a New Role

33 Pages Posted: 20 Mar 2015 Last revised: 27 Mar 2015

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Fabiana Luci de Oliveira

UFSCar

Luciana Ramos

Fundação Getulio Vargas FGV DIREITO SP - São Paulo Law School

Date Written: March 18, 2015

Abstract

This paper discusses who the legal directors are in private companies in Brazil, emphasizing their profile, career, and performance, focusing on the period of 2008-2013, investigating changes which have occurred to legal departments in those companies, and to legal directors’ careers. Our argument is that since the expansion of legal departments in Brazil in the 1990s, with expanding privatizing of companies and further opening of the Brazilian market to foreign capital, the profiles and careers of legal directors have undergone several transformations, culminating in more value and prestige being given to those professionals inside companies. This paper explores these transformations and the a series of implications generated for the corporate legal market in the country, ranging from changing the criteria for hiring professionals, to creating new demands for more sophisticated legal services.

Keywords: legal directors; legal departments; General Counsel; Brazil; globalization

Suggested Citation

Oliveira, Fabiana Luci de and Ramos, Luciana, General (In-House) Counsels in Brazil: Career, Professional Profile and a New Role (March 18, 2015). FGV Direito SP Research Paper Series No. 119, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2580499 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2580499

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