Clara Serva
Global Guide 2024
Band 3 : Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
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Band 3
About
Provided by Clara Serva
Practice Areas
Business and Human Rights, ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance.
Career
Clara is partner and head of the Business and Human Rights practice area. Within over 10 years of experience at TozziniFreire, she works on prevention, strategic planning, and litigation involving Human Rights impacts on the production chain of business activity. Her activities include the elaboration of internal policies, training, contractual mechanisms appropriate to the prevention and remedy of Human Rights violations. Clara has experience negotiating with supervisory bodies (such as the Public Defender’s Office and the Public Prosecutor’s Office), conflict resolution in legal disputes, mediation and arbitration, consultations with the affected community, among others. She conducts due diligence and develops Human Rights Compliance programs. She is TozziniFreire’s pro bono coordinator, with experience in philanthropic activities, strategic litigation, advocacy, and social impact businesses. She coordinated award-winning projects, such as the corporate management practice of trans people inclusion (Lumen, 2022), hiring trans people and rectifying documents (Latin Lawyer, 2023), Mutirão Jurídico (joint effort to provide pro bono legal guidance) in Heliópolis (Latin Lawyer, 2020), and the Guidebook to the Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities (2019). Clara is also a private mediator and has worked in Public Law and Environment Law at the São Paulo Court of Justice.
Chambers Review
Global
Business and human rights specialist Clara Serva receives high praise from clients and market commentators for her noteworthy practice in the fields of corporate responsibility and human rights, as well as her strong involvement with the third sector. Serva advises clients on human rights due diligence, compliance and the development of ESG policies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Excellent lawyer with a lot of technical knowledge in human rights. She is an excellent communicator, proactive and very dedicated."
"Very responsive and on top of the substantial legal issues of her area of expertise, with an understanding on how things should be implemented."
"Clara Serva and her team have provided an excellent service to our company."
"Excellent lawyer with a lot of technical knowledge in human rights. She is an excellent communicator, proactive and very dedicated."
"Very responsive and on top of the substantial legal issues of her area of expertise, with an understanding on how things should be implemented."
"Clara Serva and her team have provided an excellent service to our company."