4 BEDFORD ROW, LONDON, WC1R 4DF, ENGLAND
- Tel:
- Work 020 7242 7363
- Fax:
- Fax 020 7405 0555
- DX:
- 163 LONDON CHANCERY LANE WC2
- Web:
- www.collyerbristow.com
- Email:
Silvia Fazio
- Tel:
- Work +44 20 7470 4430
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Work Department
Corporate and commercial.
Position
Partner and head of international-legal, specialising in international commercial law, particularly the banking and leisure industries. Also specialises in international tax planning structures for foreign corporations and high-net-worth individuals from Latin America.
Career
Trained Demarest & Almeida, Sao Paulo 1992-94; qualified England and Wales 2002, also qualified earlier in Brazil, Italy and Portugal; resident partner Brazilian/Italian firm Finkelstein Aloia e Buccioli, Bologna 1996; partner Bonora & Associati, Italy 1998; associate Kingsford Stacey Blackwell, England 1999; partner and head of international-legal at Collyer Bristow since 2005. Current directorships: Italian Chamber of Commerce for Great Britain; legal committee member of the Brazillian Chamber of Commerce in the UK. Publications of note: legal book ‘Harmonization of International Commercial Law’, Kluwer Law International (February 2007); legal book ‘International Commercial Agreements in the EU and Mercosul’ published by LTR, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1998); contributed chapter ‘The Free Movements of Workers in the EU’ in ‘MERCOSUL: Regional integration and globalisation’ published by Renovar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2000); contributed chapter on European competition Law in ‘Trading in the European Union’ published by Tolleys (2002). Various articles including ‘Corporate Governance, Accountability and Emerging Economies’, (The Company Lawyer, vol 29 no4, Sweet & Maxwell 2008).
Languages
Portuguese, Italian, English, German, French, Spanish.
Member
Society of Advanced Legal Studies; British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Brazilian Chamber of Commerce; Board of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain.
Education
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (1994 LLB Law); University of Heidelburg, Germany (1996 LLM Private International Law); University of Bologna, Italy (1998 MPhil EU Law); Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (2006 PhD International Law).
Leisure
Wine and gastronomy, travel and sports.
Practice Areas
Corporate and commercial; Emerging markets; Banking (non-contentious)
