Fernanda Haddad > Trench Rossi Watanabe > Porto Alegre, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Trench Rossi Watanabe Offices

AV. SOLEDADE, 550, ED CARLOS GOMES CENTER
CONJUNTOS 402, 403 E 404 90470-340
PORTO ALEGRE, RS
Brazil
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Fernanda Haddad

Work Department
Litigation, Wealth Management and Family Law
Position
Career
Fernanda Ferrer Haddad joined the Firm in 2010 as an intern. She became associate in 2012 and partner in 2024. She integrates the Litigation practice group, with focus on civil, contractual and commercial law issues. Fernanda has a wide breadth of experience in in highly complex litigation, consultations and pre-litigation, assisting transactions conducted by other areas of the firm, such as mergers and acquisitions and various other transactional practices. She also works in the Wealth Management area, assisting family management offices, mainly in matters of succession planning involving investments in Brazil and abroad.
Languages
Portuguese and English.
Education
She graduated from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie with a degree in law and from Insper-SP with a specialization in agribusiness law, also holds a master’s degree in Civil Law from Universidade de São Paulo and a LL.M from Northwestern University, Chicago.
Personal
Author of several books/articles, such as:
– Getting the Deal Through: (i) “Legal Privilege & Professional Secrecy in Brazil”, 2018, and (ii) “Class Actions in Brazil”, 2019
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Wealth and succession planning
The succession planning team at Trench Rossi Watanabe takes full advantage of the firm’s full-service structure by combining expertise in tax, corporate, compliance and family law to deliver multidisciplinary advice to its clients. Sitting at the helm of the practice are internal tax planning and wealth management expert Clarissa Giannetti Machado; Giuliana Bonanno Schunck and senior associate Fernanda Haddad, both of whom focus on dispute resolution. Flávia Gerola is no longer at the firm.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Compliance
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Labour and employment
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Tax
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- International trade
- Life sciences
- Public law
- Venture capital
- Wealth and succession planning
- Projects and infrastructure
- Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- Banking and finance
- White-collar crime and investigations