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RICARDO Gomes de Paiva de FARIA Attorney & Counsellor at Law

Rua Bolívar, 147/301 22061-020 Rio de Janeiro, RJ  BRAZIL Phone: +55-21-2549-8917 Fax: obsolete system E-mail: ricardodefaria@ricardodefaria.com http://www.ricardodefaria.com

Portuguese-English bilingual. Fluent in French, Spanish speaking. Expert on real-time corporate operations counseling. Expert on contract planning, negotiation, protection & contract administration.

Expert on international financing; taxation, commercial, insurance, transportation and energy contracts - exports financing, insurance, purchase and sale; agency, barter, marketing, distributorship,warehousing and transportation - supervision & inspection, counterpurchase - patent, trademark, trade secret and licensing agreements.

Expert on deriving arbitrations (Offshore, European Union, ASEAN - Association of Southeast Asian Nations and MERCOSUR inclusive)

Senior Information Officer, Coordinator of Information Tecnology and Corporate Intelligence; graduated by the Brazilian Senate Information Center (Prodasen) and by Mead Data Corporation (Nexis/Lexis). Telecommunications' expert.

Former Chief-Counsel of SAMARCO MINERAÇÃO S.A., counsel for ARACRUZ CELULOSE S.A. and International Counsellor for the BRAZILIAN ARMY, for major tactical procurements. At PETROBRAS System service negotiated, drafted, filed and supervised multimillion dollar trade operation financing facilities under Brazilian Government Reciprocal Credit Agreements executed with foreign nations; was responsible for all legal aspects related to foreign government relations and negotiations pertaining to technology transfer, countervailing duties imposition, and tax benefits, real time counseling at both the Energy Department and at the Commodities Department, Deputy Head of Legal Department Contracts and Tax Divisions. Assistant to Chief Counsel on Transnational Legal Problems and for the Secretariat of Controlled Offshore Corporations (Interbrás Cayman Company and Seagull Trading Company), its U.S. subsidiary, Internor Trade, Inc., Petrobrás Comércio Internacional S.A. - INTERBRÁS U.K. Branch, Hong Kong Branch, Beijing and New Delhi Representative Offices, along with its Singapore Branch Office and its Singapore controlled company, Albatross Trading Private Limited.

Drafter of thousands of commercial agreements. Practicing since 1967 (then a trainee).

Pope Pious XII '71 award recipient - Pontifical Catholic University School of Law at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Graduated - M.C.J. '73 course - New York University School of Law. Holder of PhD equivalency degree on Transnational Legal Matters accorded by PETROBRAS in 1990.