
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Brazil
Lawyers

Marcos Fantinato
- Phone+55 11 3150-7000
- Email[email protected]
- Social
Work Department
Labor and employment
Position
Partner
Career
Since 2002, he has specialized in corporate labor law, providing guidance to national and foreign companies on complex advisory and labor litigation aspects. This includes a focus on individual, collective, and union rights, encompassing areas like collective bargaining and strike management.
In judicial litigation, his work is marked by strategic representation in higher courts, including the Supreme Labor Court and the Federal Supreme Court. His expertise extends to administrative litigation, where he represents clients before the Ministry of Labor (including Regional Labor Superintendencies) and the Labor Public Ministry.
He also advocates for companies at the National Contact Point (NCP) of the OECD in Brazil, mainly in demonstrating adherence to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) practices.
His professional experience covers a wide range of sectors and industries, such as forest and paper, banking and finance, investment funds, civil construction and real estate development, port and maritime, food and beverages, automotive and aeronautical, electricity and gas, chemical industry, services and retail, textile, transportation and logistics, mining and metallurgy, highways, agribusiness, startups, and ESG. He also provides consultancy to Italian companies and executives.
Languages
Portuguese and English.
Memberships
Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Section (OAB-SP)
Brazilian Institute of Social Law Cesarino Junior (IBDSCJ), Brazilian section of the Societè Internationale de Droit du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale
Partner of the Brazilian Institute of Management in Prevention of Work Accidents (IBGPAT)
Former member of the Brazilian Institute of Sports Law (IBDD)
Former member of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Law (IBRADEMP)
Former member of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC)
Education
Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy (in cooperation with the IDP Law School) – Master of Laws (LL.M.) (with research on the experience of the virtual plenary in Constitutional Courts)
Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) – Specialist in Law and Technology (with research on the relationship between non-compete clause and knowledge protection in technology sector companies)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal – Specialist in Labor Law (with comparative law research on non-compete clause and employee competition)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP) – Bachelor of Laws