Professional experience

Fernanda Tavares has extensive experience advising Brazilian and foreign clients on contractual and data protection matters, with over two decades of practice in commercial contracts, including the drafting and negotiation of infrastructure, distribution, and technology contracts.

She regularly advises companies in a wide range of industries, including renewable energy, technology, construction, electronics, and services.

Her work also includes assisting clients in complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions and other operations, such as joint ventures.

 

Education

• Master’s degree in Private Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – 2008;
• Post-graduate diploma in Contracts and Civil Liability from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – 2002;
• Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – 2000.

 

Publications

• Co-author of A Nova Crise do Contrato: estudos sobre a nova teoria contractual [The New Contract Crisis: studies on the new contractual theory]. In: Revista dos Tribunais – 2007, in which she published an article on criminal clause and civil liability limitation clause.

 

Additional Activities

• Served as a substitute assistant lecturer at the Department of Private Law and Civil Procedural Law at the Law School at UFRGS, where she has previously taught students in the courses of Civil Law, Institutions of Law, and Intellectual Property (2009 – 2011);
• Mentor and associate at Woman in Law Mentoring Brazil (WLM) since 2018;
• Mentor of the First Female Mentoring Program by the Women’s Leadership Committee of CESA (2023 – 2024).

 

Other Activities

• Coordinator of the Data Protection Committee of the Federation of Business Entities of Rio Grande do Sul (FEDERASUL) from 2020 to 2022. Currently a member of the referred Committee (2020 – 2023);
• Member of the Legal Intelligence Committee of the Brazilian Association of Information Technology Companies (ASSESPRO); 
• Member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals;
• Member of the Contractual Arrangements Committee of the Brazilian Institute of Construction Law – IBDiC.