Carolina is a founding and managing partner of Uno, as well as director of new business development for the firm. In her role as a legal advisor, she primarily focuses on issues related to trade remedies, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, technical barriers to trade and other non-tariff barriers. Carolina has been practicing in the area of international law for 15 years, and since 1999, exclusively with international trade law. She has significant experience representing companies before the different government institutions that regulate and apply international trade laws and other related matters. She has defended the interests of Brazilian and foreign producers, exporters and importers in several different jurisdictions, including Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Argentina and the United States.

In addition, Carolina coordinates and provides training sessions on international trade law and policy matters, recently putting together a workshop and short course in two of the main universities in Brazil. She also has experience in matters regarding valuation, tariff classification, the US Bioterrorism Act, rules of origin and preferential duty eligibility, export taxes, the US and the EC general system of preferences, WTO inconsistencies within custom unions, and general compliance counseling on and certifications.

She has been working with trade and development in the past 3 years, in EU programs for trade enhancement of developing countries, and has received awards as one of the world's leading trade lawyers every year since 2003. In 2005, she was selected to assist the Brazilian mission in Geneva on various WTO issues, specifically with respect to negotiations on the anti-dumping agreement and on dispute resolutions involving the following cases: US-Cotton, EC-Sugar, EC-Zeroing, US-Privatizations and EC-Bananas. Her record in international - bilateral, regional and multilateral - negotiations includes reports and strategy recommendations for Brazilian exporters of goods and services on trade debates before the Brazilian Entrepreneurial Coalition (CEB).

Bar Admission
São Paulo, Brazil, 2000 (Brazilian Law Bar Association under No. 180.551)

Member

• Founding Member of the LATSIEL, the Latin American division of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), since 2009.

 

Education

• Master’s degree in international Masters in International Economic Law and Policy – IELPO, by the Universidad de Barcelona, 2009
• Summer Program on WTO Studies by the Institute of International Studies (HEI), 2007
• Post-graduation in International Trade Law and Economic Relations by GV-Law - Law School of Sao Paulo – Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2005
• Intensive Course on Trade Law & Economics (“Summer Program”) by the World Trade Institute, 2003
• Bachelor in Law by School of Law – University of the State of Sao Paulo (USP), 1999

Coordinated Courses

• Regulation of International Trade – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), 2011
• Essential Tools for Trade Policy Workshop – Getúlio Vargas Foundation (EAESP), 2011

Editorial Board

• World Exports Control Review - WorldECR: publications on exports control regulation and compliance.

Languages
Portuguese
English
Spanish
French
Italian (basic)

Industries
Agricultural, Chemical, Steel, Paper, Plastic, Toy, Textiles, Footwear, Consumer products.

Countries Assisted
Mexico, China, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Argentina, Germany, Syria, United States, Belgium, Guatemala, among others.