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

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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Work Department

Litigation, Wealth Management and Family Law

Position

Partner

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 MachadoGiuliana Bonanno Schunck and senior associate Fernanda Haddad, both of whom focus on dispute resolution. Flávia Gerola is no longer at the firm.