Ms Luciana Cossermelli Tornovsky > Demarest Advogados > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

Ms Luciana Cossermelli Tornovsky

+55 11 3356 1671 ltornovsky@demarest.com.br View profile

Work Department

Mergers and Acquisitions

Position

Partner

Career

Partner in Demarest’s Mergers and Acquisitions practice area and member of the firm’s Board of Directors, Luciana Tornovsky Luciana Tornovsky holds a master’s degree (LL.M) from the Harvard Law School (USA) and a post-graduate degree from the International Tax Program (ITP) at Harvard University. She acted as a foreign associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She is ranked in Chambers Global, Chambers Latin America, The Legal 500, Análise Advocacia 500, LACCA, Leaders League, IFLR, among others. Luciana is a member of the Board of the São Paulo Bar Association (OAB SP), Senior Vice Chair of the Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprise Committee at the International Bar Association (IBA), Vice President of the Harvard Law School Association of Brazil,  Member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Law School Association, Co-Chair in Brazil of the Harvard Women Alliance, Member of the Board of the Center for Studies of Law Firms (CESA), Member of the “Lawyers Council for Civil and Economic Rights in the Americas”, an initiative of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, in association with the New York City Bar, and Member of the Board of the Institute for the Development of Social Investment (IDIS).

Languages

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Memberships

• Officer of the IBA – International Bar Association (Closely Held and Growing Business Enterprise Committee)
• Vice President of the Harvard Law School Association of Brazil
• Member of the Executive Committee of Harvard Law School Association
• Member of the Harvard Business School Angels of Brazil
• Co-Chair in Brazil of the Harvard Women Alliance
• Member of the Board of CESA – Center for Studies of Law Firms
• Member of the “Lawyers Council for Civil and Economic Rights in the Americas”, an initiative of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, associated to the New York City Bar
• Member of the Board of Institute for Social Investment Development (IDIS)

Education

• Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA (2000)
• Post-Graduate degree in Tax Law (ITP – International Tax Program) from Harvard University, Massachusetts, United States (2000)
• Bachelor of Laws from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), São Paulo, Brazil (1997)

Leisure

Publications: Author of ‘Securities World 2005’. Co-author of ‘International Trade Law’; ‘Business Laws of Brazil’. Main articles: ‘Takeover under Brazilian Law’ (IBA Magazine, 2003); ‘Shareholders’ Agreement’ (BM&F/BOVESPA, 2010); Legal Due Diligence (Mondaq, 2013); Business Establishment (Mondaq and ACC, 2014).