Artur L. Badra

Artur Badra is chair of the Latin American practice. Artur has more than 20 years of experience coordinating corporate legal strategies for global clients doing business in Latin America. He also advises Latin American companies on their global operations. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, Artur has in-depth knowledge of the region's diverse cultural and business environments.

Artur focuses predominantly on M&A domestic and multinational companies, cross-border transactions, corporate group restructuring, joint ventures, and other forms of business cooperation. In addition, he manages local coordination on competition matters and internal corporate investigations into fraud and anticorruption and competition law violations. Recently, Artur has advised Braskem, BTG, Embraer, Marelli, Orange, Petrobras, SAP, Sanofi, and XP on various corporate and compliance matters.

After many years of working at Jones Day in Europe, Artur has been a key member of the São Paulo Office since its inception in 2011. Artur is deeply involved in mentoring new lawyers and is engaged in inclusion initiatives.