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Grasiela Cerbino

Founding Partner

Grasiela Cerbino

Founding Partner

Grasiela Cerbino specializes in legal advice for companies, financial institutions, investment funds, shareholders and executives on corporate and regulatory aspects of the capital and financial markets.

Cerbino’s extensive experience in executive positions at major financial institutions in Brazil since the 1990s is a testament to her knowledge and expertise in the industry. With seven years as the Legal Director of B3 S.A. and over a decade at Banco Credit Suisse (Brasil) S.A., Cerbino has demonstrated her leadership skills and ability to navigate complex regulatory environments. Her work at Banco Santander S.A., Banco Bozano, Simonsen S.A., and Banco Pactual further showcases her expertise in advising companies, financial institutions, investment funds, shareholders, and managers on corporate and regulatory matters.

She is the author of several scientific articles, a visiting professor at universities in Brazil and abroad, and speaker at various capital markets conferences.

Law degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ

PhD at La Sapienza Università di Roma

Languages

portuguese, english, italian, spanish and french.

Professional Associations

Member of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) Capital Market Commission
Member of the Corporate Disputes & M&A Committe – Ibrademp
Member of the Executive Board and the Editorial Board of the Revista do Direito das Sociedades e dos Valores Mobiliários (RDSVM)
Member of Arbitrators Chambers: Câmara do Mercado (CAM), Centro Brasileiro de Mediação e Arbitragem – CBMA, Câmara de Conciliação, Mediação e Arbitragem – Ciesp/Fiesp, Câmara de Mediação e Arbitragem da Associação Comercial do Paraná – ARBITAC.
Member of the Corporate Affairs Section (NAS) of the Guidance and Services Council of the São Paulo Commercial Association (ACSP)
Member of the Ethics Committee under the coordination of the Ministry of Transparency and the General Attorney’s Office – AGU (2016 – 2018)
Member of the Council for the Regulation of Best Practices in the Capital Market – ANBIMA (2016 – 2019).
Member of the Council for the Regulation of Best Practices for Trading Financial Instruments – ANBIMA (2016 – 2019).
Member of the Council for Private Banking Best Practices Regulation – ANBIMA (2016 –2018).
Member of the Best Practices Regulation Council for the Continuing Certification Program – ANBIMA (2016 – 2018).

Publications

Arbitrato societario, In Associazione Italiana per l’Arbitrato Online, 2022

Arbitrabilidade das demandas coletivas, In Arbitragem Coletiva Societária/André Luís Monteiro, Guilherme Setoguti J. Pereira, Renato Beneduzi, coordenadores – São Paulo: Thompson Reuters Brasil, 2021.

Câmara de Arbitragem do Mercado: passado, presente e futuro, In 25 anos da Lei de Arbitragem (1996-2021): história, legislação, doutrina e jurisprudência / Arnoldo Wald e Selma Lemes, coordenadores – São Paulo: Thompson Reuters Brasil, 2021.

A controversa tutela coletiva de direitos do mercado de capitais, In Processo Societário IV, Coordenado por Flavio Luiz Yarshell, Ed. Quartier Latin, outono de 2021.

Assembleias Anuais e os Desafios Impostos pelo Covid-19, In Revista de Direitos das Sociedades e dos Valores Mobiliários – São Paulo: Almedina, maio 2021.

Other publications can be accessed on the Lattes platform.

Classes, Seminars and Workshops

The future of Equity Investment Funds: what can and should change?
II Congress on Investment Fund Law (2024)

Challenges for organized markets: irregular “export” of markets, betting market and crypto market
Brazilian Congress of Capital Markets (2024).

The “ordinary deals” between signing and closing in company acquisitions
Brazilian Congress of Commercial Law (2024).

Regulatory Agenda 2024: CVM Resolution 45/2021
Workshop organized by the CVM and the RDSVM –Journal of Company and Securities Law (2024).

Capital Market Self-Regulation
Brazilian Congress of Commercial Law (2023).

Litigation Strategies
Fundação Getulio Vargas – FGV (2022).

Market Infrastructures and Self-Regulation
Master’s Course at the Law School of the State University of Rio de Janeiro – UERJ (2022).

Collective Arbitration
Superior School of Law of the São Paulo Bar Association – ESA – OAB/SP (2022).

CVM’s new trends
Seminar sponsored by Loria & Kalansky Advogados (2022).

Remedial protection of minority shareholders
Brazilian Congress of Capital Markets (2022).

Major arbitration cases
Canal Arbitragem (2022).

Diritto Societario Brasiliano
Luiss Guido Carli – Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (2022).

Corporate Arbitration
Workshop sponsored by Revista Capital Aberto (2021).

Diritto Societario Brasiliano
Seminar organized by the Associazione fra le Società Italiane per Azioni – Assonime, in association with Associazione Italiana per l’Arbitrato (2021).

Responsibility of administrators for unlawful acts
Workshop sponsored by Levy & Salomão (2021).

Derivative and Collective Actions
Arbitrations Seminar Sponsored by ABRASCA – Brazilian Association of Public Companies (2021).

Derivative and Collective Actions
Insper – Master’s program (2021).

Diritto Societario Brasiliano
Luiss Guido Carli – Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (2021).

Collective Arbitration
Master’s Program – Pontíficia Universidade Católica – PUC/SP (2020).

Collective Arbitration of Corporate Matters
Brazilian Arcadas Congress (2020).

ESG
Journal of Company and Securities Law – RDSVM (2020).

Foreign public offerings
Workshop sponsored by OAB – SP (2020).

New [Normative Ruling n°] 461 Public Hearing (Regulation of Capital Markets Infrastructures)
Workshop sponsored by RDSVM – Journal of Company and Securities Law (2020).

Collective Arbitration and guardianship of enforcement of rights of minority shareholders
Workshop organized by the OECD/Brazilian Securities Commission – CVM (2020).

Corporate Governance Report
Workshop sponsored by the Brazilian Institute of Business Law – IBRADEMP (2020).

Digital Shareholders meetings
Workshop sponsored by Revista Capital Aberto (2020).

Digital Shareholders meetings
Workshop sponsored by RDSVM – Journal of Company and Securities Law (2020).

Fintech
Lecture at Luiss Guido Carli – Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Social (2020).

Class Actions
Institute of Lawyers of São Paulo – IASP (2019)

Collective Corporate Arbitration
International Arbitration Congress – CBMA (2019)

Fintechs, the Brazilian Financial System (SFN) and the Brazilian Payment System (SBP)
Brazilian Congress of Commercial Law (2019)

Enforcement of minority shareholders’ rights
Workshop organized by the OECD/Brazilian Securities Commission – CVM (2018)

grasiela.cerbino@cerbinoadvocacia.com