Resume of PROF. DR. ATTILA S.L. ANDRADE JR. 1.Personal Data

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1 Resume of PROF. DR. ATTILA S.L. ANDRADE JR. 1.Personal Data 1.1- Full Name: Attila de Souza Leão Andrade Jr Residential Address: Alameda Sucupiras, 394, Condominio dos Pinheiros, Aldeia da Serra, Santana de Parnaíba, SP Brazil, tel./fax Commercial address: Av. Ipiranga, 104,14 th floor, Consolação, S.Paulo, , Brazil, tel and fax address: Website: Marital status: married 1.5- Nationality: Brazilian 2 - Schooling and Academic Life 2.1- JSD degree ( Juridical Science Doctor, the highest degree in law equivalent to Phd) Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn. USA Master of Laws, Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn. USA, Bachelor of Laws (LLB- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Law School), Rio de Janeiro, Fulbright Scholar US Department of State, Academic Experiences : a) visiting professor at the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Fall, 2011 ( current position). Dr. Andrade is currently teaching his International Business Transactions course entitled Doing Business in 1

2 Latin America. He taught the same course at UFL in four consecutive years ( ). b) visiting professor at the University of Miami Law School, Spring 1983, Spring 2000 Spring 2005 and Spring, 2008.( high evaluation from students; earned a certificate for high learning experience) c) Dr. Andrade has been teaching at BSP-Sao Paulo Business School since 1996 his course of Business Law. Dr. Andrade has successively obtained the highest ranks of students evaluation of all professors in the BSP Master of Business Administration Degree Program.He has taught law and finance for BSP- MBA students. d) Dr.Andrade was a professor of law at the Universidade São Francisco Law School ( full doctoral professor of law for the course of Corporate Law) Position held from March 1992 till June, 2002 e) Dr. Andrade was recently invited to teach business and international law at the prestigious Fundacao Getulio Vargas ( FGV) in its MBA courses. ( ). 3. Other professional experiences 3.1- Dr. Andrade has been a senior attorney and partner in the international law firm of Advocacia Attila de Souza Leão Andrade Jr., a firm established in S.Paulo, Brazil since The law firm is engaged in the practice of international law, corporate and taxation. Mr. Andrade s law firm has a wide net of correspondent offices throughout North America, Europe and Latin America ( current position) Senior lawyer with the law offices of Thomas Felsberg in São Paulo, Alcoa Aluminio S.A ( subsidiary of Alcoa Aluminum of America) legal manager São Paulo, from January- August, Law firm of Jose Thomaz Nabuco - attorney at law Rio de Janeiro, from April 1977 to December Lawyer at Augusto Nobre law firm in Rio de Janeiro,

3 3.6- Trainee at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in 1975 in New York. 4. Books Published Prof. Andrade has published the following books: 4.1. O Capital Estrangeiro no Sistema Jurídico Brasileiro, Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, 1979, 2nd edition in 2000,( 3rd edition in 2009 ). 4.2 Conceito Jurídico para o Desenvolvimento das Empresas no Brasil - Ed. e Dist. Paulista Ltda., São Paulo, Guidelines on Brazil s Foreign Investment Law - 2nd edition, Ed. Resenha Tributária, S.Paulo, 1993, fifth edition to be published in 2004.The book is now in its 6 th edition, considered the definitive book on the subject in English Interpretação do Direito Tributário segundo os tribunais - 1st ed. - Ed. Resenha Tributária,, S.Paulo, Comentários à nova lei do imposto de renda das pessoas jurídicas - 1st ed. Ed. Brasilia Jurídica, S.Paulo, Guide des Lois Applicables aux Investissements Etrangers au Brésil - 1st edition, Centro dos Estudos de Direito, S.Paulo, O Novo Direito Tributário Brasileiro - 1st ed. Fiuza Editores, S.Paulo, O Novo Direito Societário Brasileiro, 1 st ed. Editora Brasilia Juridica, Brasilia, Dr. Andrade wrote the eight volume treatise on Brazil s New Civil Code as follows : a) Vol. 1 - General Introduction to the Civil Code : Parte Geral - Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, published in 2002/

4 b) Vol 2- The General Obligations ( Direito das Obrigaçoes ) Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro - published in 2002, second edition in 2003 c) Vol. 3- Contracts ( Direito dos Contratos ) Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, published d) vol. 4- Corporate Law ( Direito das Sociedades ) Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, published in 2001, second edition in 2002 e) vol. 5- Property Law ( Direito das Coisas ) Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, in printing. f) vol. 6 Family Law ( Direito da Familia ) Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, in printing. g) vol. 7 Estate Law ( Direito das Sucessões ) Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, in printing. h) vol. 8 Commercial Papers ( Títulos de Crédito ) Cia. Editora Forense, Rio de Janeiro, in printing Brasil As Previsões published by Os Melhores Livros, São Paulo, November, ( interesting historical and sociological accounts of Brazil by prospecting the perspectives of this country in the next 21 years) USA Predictions published by Astemari Publishers, an exciting futuristic essay in English about the US in the next 21 years. (published in the US in 2008 ). The book is now available on sale by Kindle. 5. Club affiliations and extra-professional activities and engagements 5.1- Former President of the Yale Club of Brazil ( position held until August, 2003) 5.2- Recently appointed Coordinator of the Environmental Law Commission, the Brazilian Bar Association ( Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil ) São Paulo chapter, São Paulo, August, Hobbies and Interests 4

5 6.1- Writing. Prof. Attila Andrade Jr. is the author of several published books and he is now writing non professional fictional books as a hobby Music. Prof. Attila Andrade Jr. is a piano player and performs popular piano presentations in private and among family and friendly gatherings. 7- Languages 7.1- Portuguese ( native language) 7.2- English ( Fluent ) 7.3- Spanish ( working knowledge) 7.4- French ( working knowledge) 8- Special projects 8.1- Dr. Andrade has had the honor of being hired by a joint program of the US State Department and Harvard University to draft Angola s new Foreign Investment Code, a project successfully undertaken in Dr. Andrade has some invention patents on the modular designed block for home construction and the machine for plastering cement on the wall, both patents granted by the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property ; he recently applied for a patent of invention on a new mixing of cement-sugar bagasse block for home construction. 9- References 9.1- Prof. Keith Rosenn - University of Miami School of Law 9.2- Former Dean Dennis Lynch University of Miami School of Law 9.3- Associate Dean Prof. Stuart Cohn, head of the International Program University of Florida Levin College of Law 9.4- Prof. Leonard Riskin University of Florida Levin College of Law Prof. John Little - University of Florida Levin College of Law 5

6 9.6- Prof. Michael Reisman ( Yale Law School Prof. of International Law and Jurisprudence) 9.7- Prof. Armando Dal Colletto Academic Dean of BSP Business School Sao Paulo Mr. Louis Riggio - State Department, former US General Consulate in Sao Paulo. Retired US State Department officer Prof. Richard Grande - law professor at the Miami Dade County Police Academy Prof. Jeff Davis law professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. 6