Veirano, Ronaldo C

Main Practice Areas

Administrative Law, Arbitration and Mediation, Corporate Law, International Trade.

Professional Experience

Veirano Advogados' Founding Partner

Ronaldo C. Veirano is the founding partner of Veirano Advogados and began his activities in 1972 as a partner of Baker & Mckenzie. In 1996 Ronaldo and VEIRANO ADVOGADOS separated from the U.S. firm to become an office with a national and independent base. Nowadays is considered one of the top and largest Brazilian law firms with over 200 lawyers spread among its five offices around Brazil.

From 1966 to 1971, Ronaldo C. Veirano served as Board member for the Kendall Company in Boston, Massachusetts, working as an attorney focused on international affairs. He is a member of several national and international associations and plays an important role on the top management of several of these institutions. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Brazil-United States Business Board – American Section; Brazil-China Business Board; Board of Directors of the American Bank Note Company; Board of Directors of the Umoe BioEnergy; and member of the Advisory Board of the Brazil Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

Veirano serves as a Board member for the American Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro, of which he was also Chairman four different times – being the first Brazilian to occupy this position. He is also a Board member of the Brazilian-Swedish Chamber of Commerce; Board member of the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI); former Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil; Board member of the Brazilian-Canadian Chamber of Commerce; former Chairman of the American Club in Rio de Janeiro; and the Deliberative Council of the Gávea Golf Country Club, remaining in the position for eight consecutive years.

On August 23, 2000, he was named the Honorary Consul of Australia in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and works intensively to promote business between the two countries.

For the past six years, he has been a member of the AFS International Board of Directors, a non-governmental organization that promotes cultural exchange between foreign students. In the beginning of 2008 he was nominated, by the Brazilian Government, to join the Fulbright Commission, which grants scholarships to Brazilian students in the United States.

Veirano is also a member of the Board of WWF-Brasil (World Wide Fund for Nature - Brasil); member of the Brazilian Association of Intellectual Property; Brazilian Association of Informatics and Telecommunication Law; Brazilian Franchising Association; International Trademark Association - INTA; and Vice-Chair of the International Trade Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association.

Lectures
A speaker at several different seminars in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America, Veirano is invited to speak about the profession, his career, the Brazilian attorney market as well as other topics associated with his professional experience, recognized as a major promoter of foreign investments in the country in a range of different economic sectors

Education

Juris Doctor (1971)
Suffolk University Law School – Boston, Massachusetts

B.A. in Law (1963)
University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Languages

Portuguese, English and Spanish.

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