Vicente Braga
Brazil Guide 2024
Band 3 : Banking & Finance: Regulatory
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About
Provided by Vicente Braga
Practice Areas
Banking, Payments and Fintechs
Career
Vicente Piccoli Medeiros Braga is a parter in Banking, Payments and Fintechs at FAS Advogados.
Vicente has played important role in several operations and regulatory projects and has extensive experience in Banking, Finance and Payments regulation, in addition to having worked in renowned law firms, as Machado Meyer Advogados, and at ANBIMA, Fundo Garantidor de Créditos (the Brazilian deposit insurer), B3 (the Brazilian stock exchange) and at the Crimes Against the Financial System Unit at the Federal Prosecution Service.
Adding to his track record as a financial regulation expert, Vicente also has a solid academic background. He holds a PhD in Commercial Law from Universidade de São Paulo, a master's degree in Law and Development from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (GVLaw, São Paulo), and a bachelor’s degree in Law from the Universidade Federal do Estado do Paraná , which was partially obtained through attendance at University of Coimbra, in Portugal. He also attended a 3 months Fintechs course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”).
Vicente has published several articles and book chapters on financial regulation in national and international journals, as well as he is the author responsible for ANBIMA’s educational material for certificating banking professionals on the subjects of financial system structure, financial regulation and self-regulatory standards. Vicente often lectures on specialized post-graduate courses on themes related to financial regulation.
Chambers Review
Brazil: Transactional
Joining the rank numbers this year, Vicente Braga is often sought out to advise clients on regulatory mandates, such as application for licenses and developing new financial services and products.
Vicente Braga is often sought out to advise clients on regulatory mandates, such as applications for licences and developing new financial services and products.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Vicente Braga is highly responsive, quickly understands your needs - whether simple or complex - and has strong connections with the authorities."
"Vicente has been a great partner. He and his team played a key role in major internal decision-making."
"Vicente Braga is highly responsive, quickly understands your needs - whether simple or complex - and has strong connections with the authorities."
"Vicente has been a great partner. He and his team played a key role in major internal decision-making."
