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Reinforcing its full-service practice, Luciana Moralles and Marcelo Schwartzmann are joining the firm’s team of partners
Luciana Camponez Pereira Moralles and Marcelo Schwartzmann are the new partners at Finocchio & Ustra Sociedade de Advogados, a full-service corporate law firm that is recognized as one of the top influential firms in Brazil.
About Luciana Camponez Pereira Moralles
Specialized in Environmental Law, Sustainability and Regulation, she has over 25 years of experience in highly complex strategic cases. She outlines corporate law strategies and engages in environmental compliance processes. She is a professor in postgraduate and extension courses on carbon market, ESG and environmental management.
Luciana, who already led the firm’s environmental and regulatory area, has a Law degree from the São Paulo State University (UNESP, Franca campus) and specialized in Civil Procedure from University of Ribeirão Preto (UNERP) and holds a master’s degree from UNESP. In addition, she has also completed her complementary international training in Transnational, Trade, Environment Law and Human Rights, at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
“Becoming an environmental and regulatory partner at Finocchio & Ustra, especially at this time when sustainable practices are gaining prominence in society and among companies, is a reason for great joy and gratitude. This achievement is the result of a process built over the years, where my professional trajectory was consolidated side by side with the growth of our office. I am deeply grateful to everyone who accompanied me and helped me along this path. We grow together”, declares Luciana.
About Marcelo Schwartzmann
Marcelo is a lawyer specializing in Environmental and Regulatory Law with solid experience in top-tier law firms in Brazil and abroad (Germany and the United Kingdom). He has worked on complex cases, such as the Mariana/MG disaster, negotiations with indigenous peoples and transnational disputes before the High Court in London.
In addition, he has experience in corporate governance, ESG (he worked on the Legal Committee of the Renova Foundation) and institutional relations. During his career, he also worked in the legal departments of multinational companies in the mining and energy sectors.
Marcelo is a speaker and author of publications on legal and socio-environmental topics, such as environmental compliance, solid waste, forest code, indigenous and traditional communities, collective actions in environmental disasters, among others. He has a law degree from Mackenzie Presbyterian University, and specialized in Environmental Law and Strategic Management of Sustainability from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). He holds a Master’s degree in Global Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), an LL.M. in Legal Theory from the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Germany), an MBA from Getulio Vargas Foundation and is currently studying an MBA in compliance & ESG at University of São Paulo (USP/ESALQ).
“It is with great pleasure that I join Finocchio & Ustra as a partner and take the leadership of the Environmental and Regulatory Law area. This is a strategic moment for our firm, and I am committed to consolidating our performance as a reference in the segment by offering creative legal solutions aligned with the dynamic demands of the market and the highest quality standards”, highlights Marcelo.
For José Luis Finocchio Junior, the firm’s founding partner, the arrival of Marcelo and Luciana as partners in the environmental area takes place at a strategic moment, in which companies and society must be increasingly aligned with environmental and regulatory guidelines.
“The experience of our new partners strengthens our team and reinforces the delivery of customized solutions in new areas of environmental practice, such as mining and energy, always with the goal of adding value to our clients’ businesses,” he highlights.