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Trench Rossi Watanabe Offices

Trench Rossi Watanabe
AV. SOLEDADE, 550, ED CARLOS GOMES CENTER
CONJUNTOS 402, 403 E 404 90470-340
PORTO ALEGRE, RS
Brazil
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Manuela Demarche

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Work Department

ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance, Environment and Climate Change Partner

Position

Partner

Career

Manuela Demarche joined the Firm in 2017, and has been working with Environmental Law since 2010. She became partner in 2024 of the firm’s Environment, Sustainability and Climate Change practice group.

She has several years of experience in complex matters connected to environmental, sustainability and climate change, and her practice focus on a wide range of matters, particularly in connection to environmental liability, licensing proceedings, carbon and M&A transactions and cross-border disputes. During 2022, she did an attorney training program in the U.S. and has worked as a Legal Extern for the American Clean Power Association.

She regularly advises international and domestic clients in relevant cases, including preparing opinions, overseeing due diligences, drafting administrative and judicial claims for disputes arising from controversial environmental matters. Under her umbrella, she regularly deals with regularization (air pollution, effluents, solid waste, contaminated areas), circular economy, take-back schemes, extended producer responsibility, carbon markets, REDD+, biodiversity and crisis management.

Awards and Recognitions

Manuela Demarche is recognized for her work as an outstanding professional – “Associate-to-watch” – in Environmental Law in Brazil, by the publication Chambers and Partners. She was also mentioned by Análise Advocacia Mulher.

Languages

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Education

She graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) with a degree in Law and holds two specializations in Environmental Law from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGVLaw) and Paulista School of Magistrate (EPM). She is an expert in Sustainable Capitalism & ESG by Berkeley Law Executive Education and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Environmental and Energy Law from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C., where she graduated with a merit scholarship and a CALI Excellence for the Future Award.

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > Environment

(Next Generation Partners)

Manuela Demarche Mello Neira – Trench Rossi Watanabe 

Expert services in the management of critical contaminated areas, structuring of take-back schemes, and increasingly, ESG and climate change matters, distinguish Trench Rossi Watanabe as a practice closely ‘aligned with the most recent trends’ in environmental law. Multinational and large domestic clients look to the firm for counsel on sensitive issues relating to class actions, infraction notices, licensing, forestry, solid waste, biodiversity, protected areas and human rights. Based in São Paulo, the team operates under the leadership of Renata Amaral, a ‘hands-on’, core resource for nature-based solution projects, carbon credit transactions, decarbonisation strategies, and carbon-related advocacy and regulatory advice, and the ‘assertive’ Giovani Tomasoni, who supports corporations in the internalisation of sustainability, ESG, circular economy, and environmental compliance practices. At the senior associate level, Alexandre Jabra carries a wealth of experience in contamination, pollution, solid waste management, protected areas and minorities; Manuela Demarche Mello Neira directs her attention to environmental liability, licensing proceedings, M&A transactions, and cross-border disputes; and Livia Ribeiro Lupinacci lends her expertise to take-back schemes, ESG, and biodiversity matters.

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