Mariana Pargendler

Mariana Pargendler is Professor of Law at Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law in São Paulo (FGV Direito SP), where she teaches in its undergraduate and masters program. She also serves as a director of FGV’s Center for Law, Economics, and Governance. Mariana is also a Global Associate Professor of Law at New York University School of Law (Buenos Aires campus). In 2014 and 2015, Mariana taught as as Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She has a number of courses, such as Obligations and Contract Law (“Direito Obrigacional e Contratual I”); Corporate Law (“Direito Societário”); Comparative Law (“Direito Comparado”); Family Law and Successions (“Direito de Família e Succesões”); State and Market on Development Financing (“Estado e Mercado no Financiamento do Desenvolvimento”); “Deals in Latin America”; and “Current Issues in Corporate Governance”. Mariana writes Legal Opinions before judges and arbitrators on Private Law issues (both Civil Law and Commercial Law). Mariana holds an LL.B. cum laude and a PhD (Law) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Brazil), as well LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale Law School. Between 2006 and 2008, she was a corporate associate at the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, with emphasis in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and corporate governance. In 2009 and 2010 was a research fellow at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. In 2006 and 2009, an Olin research fellow at the Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School. She is admitted to practice law in Brazil and New York. She is the author of several national and international publications, having published some of her articles in famous journals, such as Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, American Journal of Comparative Law and Revue Internationale de Droit Comparé. In 2013, she received the Hessel Yntema award by the American Academy of Comparative Law for the “most outstanding” article by a scholar under 40 appearing in the previous year’s volume of the American Journal of Comparative Law. In 2002, she received as well the Young Researcher Award (“Prêmio Jovem Pesquisador”) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul for a research project on contract law developed under the supervision of Professor Judith Martins-Costa. Mariana is an advisory member of the Securities Market and Corporate Governance Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association-São Paulo section (OAB-SP). She is the Secretary-General to the Brazilian National Committee of the Association Internationale des Sciences Juridiques. She is also a member of the Comparative Law and Economic Forum (CLEF), “Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política” (SELA) and of the Culturalistic Studies Institute (“Instituto de Estudos Culturalistas” – IEC).