Agenda

9.00am-9.45am Registration & breakfast

9.45am-9.50am Opening remarks

9.50am-10.05am Opening keynote: regulatory velocity – leading the legal function through permanent change

Regulation in Brazil is no longer arriving in cycles. It is arriving continuously, from multiple directions, with limited coordination between agencies and shrinking implementation timelines. The challenge for today’s General Counsel is no longer simply responding to regulatory change, it is building legal functions capable of absorbing constant disruption, guiding business decisions and creating confidence in uncertainty.

10.05am-10.50am ESG: the first year’s reckoning

Mandatory sustainability disclosure has moved ESG from aspiration to accountability. The first reporting cycle reveals not just what companies disclose but what they actually know about their own operations, supply chains, and exposure. For GCs, the question has shifted from compliance readiness to legal consequence, and the gap between what was promised and what the evidence supports is where the real risk lives. This session explores how legal leaders should navigate this era.

10.50am-11.35am Competition & antitrust  – in partnership with Del Chiaro Pereira Advogados

Competition law is no longer confined to merger reviews. As CADE intensifies scrutiny of digital markets, commercial conduct, pricing practices and strategic transactions, GCs must anticipate competition risk before it becomes a regulatory issue. This session explores how legal leaders can embed antitrust thinking into commercial decision-making while enabling growth and innovation.

11.35am-12.00pm Coffee break

12.00pm-12.45pm Investment: the new dynamics of capital, governance and corporate strategy – in partnership with Darmont Advogados

Private capital is transforming Brazil’s corporate landscape, bringing greater scrutiny around governance, transparency, compliance and value creation. As investment funds become increasingly influential stakeholders, General Counsel must navigate evolving investor expectations while balancing board priorities, regulatory obligations and business growth. This session explores how legal leaders can help organisations respond to a new era of ownership, oversight and strategic decision-making.

12.45pm-1.30pm Investigations and personal liability – in partnership with Iokoi, Paiva, Jonasson e Scalzaretto Advogados

When something goes wrong inside a company, whether fraud, criminal offences or sexual offences, the legal and personal consequences increasingly extend beyond the organisation to the individuals who led it. The investigation process, the regulatory response, and the decisions made in the first hours and days are not just procedural, they are career-defining. This session examines what that reality looks like from the inside, and what it demands of the GC who is in the room when it happens.

    • Pedro Ivo Gricoli Ioko, founding partner and managing partner, Iokoi, Paiva, Jonasson e Scalzaretto Advogados
    • Gustavo Jonasson de Conti Medeiros, partner, Iokoi, Paiva, Jonasson e Scalzaretto Advogados
    • Rafael Tardocchi, legal director – corporate, compliance & legal operations, Bayer
    • Tatiana Malamud, chief legal and compliance officer, Stone

1.30pm-2.30pm Networking lunch

2.30pm-3.20pm The GC disputes lab: settle, fight, or walk away

Every dispute lands the same question on a GCs desk. Settle, fight, or walk away sounds simple until you are holding the legal merit in one hand, the commercial relationship in the other, the board’s risk appetite somewhere in the room, and a Brazilian judiciary timeline that turns a three-year dispute into a ten-year one. This is not a panel about dispute resolution theory. In this live, interactive Disputes Lab, delegates will work through realistic scenarios, make decisions under pressure, and hear how experienced GCs navigated the same dilemmas and the lessons they took from the outcome.

*Pre-registration required

Roundtable Sessions (3 parallel sessions)

ROUNDTABLE 1 – FTO Designations, Sanctions and Managing Exposure to PCC and CV – in partnership with Diaz Reus International Law Firm

In May 2026, the U.S. designated Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), with the FTO designations taking effect on 5 June. The designations increase sanctions and enforcement risks, including potential material-support liability under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B, in certain circumstances involving conduct outside the United States. With neither group classified as a terrorist organization under Brazilian law, how should companies operating in Brazil navigate this regulatory divergence? This roundtable will examine the practical implications for OFAC screening, AML controls, counterparty due diligence, transaction monitoring and risk assessments, including how businesses can identify potential exposure and strengthen controls in response to the new U.S. designations.

*Pre-registration required

    • Pedro Fragoso Pires, foreign legal consultant, Diaz Reus International Law Firm

ROUNDTABLE 2 – From experimentation to enterprise AI: How GCs are building governance that enables innovation – in partnership with Demarest Advogados

As AI moves from isolated pilots to enterprise-wide deployment, General Counsel are redefining governance to accelerate innovation while maintaining trust. This discussion explores how legal leaders are designing practical AI governance frameworks, aligning legal, technology and business teams, establishing oversight for high-impact AI use cases, and embedding accountability throughout the AI lifecycle. Join peers to examine how governance can become a strategic enabler of responsible AI adoption, competitive advantage and sustainable business transformation.

    • José Diaz, partner, Demarest Advogados
    • Luciana Cossermelli Tornovsky, partner, Demarest Advogados

*Pre-registration required

ROUNDTABLE 3 – Legal Innovation & the Future of Legal Services

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how legal work is researched, drafted and delivered on both sides of the GC and external counsel relationship. The assumptions that have governed that relationship for decades, around cost, quality, confidentiality and accountability, are being tested simultaneously. This is the conversation about where it goes from here.

*Pre-registration required

3.20pm-3.40pm Coffee break/room change

3.40pm-4.25pm Cross-border deals and regional risk

Deal-making across Latin America has never been more complex or more consequential. Regulatory divergence, shifting antitrust thresholds, political risk, and the pace of change in financial and digital markets are reshaping how transactions are structured, priced, and closed. For GCs navigating M&A and commercial agreements across the region, the legal risk is embedded in the deal itself – in the assumptions made, the representations given, and the jurisdictions chosen. This conversation examines what it takes to get transactions done well when the rules are not the same on both sides of the border.

4.25pm-4.55pm Closing fireside chat – crisis and reputation management

Every GC will eventually face the moment when risk becomes reality. Reputational exposure, board pressure, media scrutiny, regulators, and the public can all arrive at once, leaving little time to deliberate. This closing fireside examines how Brazil’s most experienced legal leaders have navigated their defining moments, and what those moments revealed about the difference between a legal strategy and a leadership one.

4.55pm-5.00pm Closing remarks

5.00pm-6.00pm Networking drinks & transition to gala dinner