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He is a former federal regulator with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now, his practice focuses on representing financial institutions, public and private companies, accounting firms, and their boards of directors, audit committees, directors, officers, and employees in domestic and international securities enforcement actions and litigations, white collar criminal defense, derivative actions, internal investigations, congressional investigations, complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts, and crisis management. Claudius has extensive experience in handling delicate high-profile matters that require concurrent representation in the civil, criminal, and political spheres.

He has been in Petrobras for over 33 years, working in the Exploration and Production area. During his career, Fernando held several management positions, including Reservoir Manager in Campos and Sergipe-Alagoas Basins, E&P-SUL Business Unit General Manager, E&P Production Engineering General Manager, Mexilhão Gas field Project Manager and Petrobras Bolivia E&P Director. He got a bachelor degree on Civil Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlandia and also has an Executive MBA from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Over the past five years he worked as Managing Partner of WSI Digital Marketing,a digital marketing agency; Communications Commission member of IBGC- Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance, Financial Officer in Chief of Fibria Celulose, a cellulose branch company, where he served as investor relations manager. Previously, João Elek served as Financial and Investor Relations Director of NET, a telecommunications operator whose capital was closed in 2014. He has a degree in electronic engineering from PUC-Rio, an MBA title in Marketing Planning from COPPEAD / UFRJ and a post-graduate degree in Mergers and Acquisitions from Columbia Business School.

Bachelor’s Degree in Law Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro – PUC-Rio (1977), and Master Degree in Comparative Law George Washington University (1979).


João Laudo was a partner at the law firm Laudo de Camargo Advogados, municipal attorney of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Commissioner of the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) and General Counsel at BNDES Participações S/A (BNDESPAR),


Senior Partner of Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados, a retired attorney of the State of Rio de Janeiro and General Coordinator of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance -- Rio de Janeiro Branch.

He manages IBM’s global portfolio of clients across all these industries and is also responsible for the design, development and delivery of industry specific solutions that are based on advanced research & development concepts and integrate IBM’s hardware, software and service capabilities. A strong believer in collaboration as the path to innovation, Brantley has reached out to business partners and clients alike to design and develop the next evolution of industry specific solutions that address these industry’s most challenging issues including profitable exploration, integrated operations, asset management and production design and scheduling. The last two years, he has been living and working from Shanghai, China. He received his BA in Business Administration from the University of New Hampshire and his MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology.