Alexandre Jaba > Trench Rossi Watanabe > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

Trench Rossi Watanabe
EDIFICIO. EZ TOWERS BLDG, TOWER A
RUA ARQ. OLAVO REDIG DE CAMPOS, 105 Torre A - 31º ANDAR
04711-904, SÃO PAULO, SP
Brazil

Work Department

ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance, Consumer Law, Environment and Climate Change Associate

Position

Associate

Career

Alexandre Salomão Jabra joined the firm in 2010. He integrates the environmental, consumer and sustainability practice group, with focus on consultancies, administrative procedures lawsuits and negotiations.

In the environmental area, Alexandre has a wide breadth of experience in cases involving contamination, environmental and urbanistic licensing procedures, environmental liability, management of solid wastes and take-back requirements, effluents, electromagnet pollution, air emissions, forestry matters, protected areas and minorities, biodiversity, controlled chemicals products, socio and environmental liability of financial institutions, climate change, carbon markets and urbanistic regularization.

In the consumer area, Alexandre has experience with consultations, administrative and judicial procedures related to Consumer Law issues with federal, state and municipal agencies, such as DPDC, PROCONs, Public Prosecutors and Municipalities involving recall, offers, data protection, misleading and abusive advertising, privacy, e-commerce, abusive clauses, commercial practices, terms and conditions and violations to the Brazilian Consumer Defense Code.

Alexandre represents several clients in the oil&gas, automotive, chemicals, technology, food, communications, mining, finance and services sectors.

Languages

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Education

He graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC/SP with a degree in Law  and also holds a master’s degree in Administrative Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC/SP and a master’s degree in Law from Stanford Law School, Stanford University in California, USA, for which he received honors for his final paper “Critiques to the Theory of Full Recovery of the Environment”.  Alexandre is also specialized in Public Law from School of District Attorney Office in São Paulo.

Personal

In addition, Alexandre was invited as a speaker at various events and symposiums on Environmental and Climate Change Law, such as the 1st Symposium on Environmental, Agrarian and Agribusiness Law at the Mackenzie University Law School and the Symposium Oil Spill on the Brazilian Coast at Universidade Santa Cecília.

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > Environment

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 ‘assertiveGiovani 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.