Thomas Felsberg is the managing partner at Felsberg, Pedretti, Mannrich e Aidar Advogados e Consultores Legais. He has domestic and international experience in insolvency law having contributed in drafting the Brazilian law, published innumerous articles and speaker invited worldwide. Member of the International Insolvency Institute, American College of Bankruptcy and TMA-Brazil Chairman.

Sergio W. Duque Estrada is founding partner of Valormax Financial Consulting, a financial advisory firm focused on local and cross-border restructurings, recovery and M&A transactions. He has occupied key executive positions in major international banks and in BNDES development bank. Member of the Board of several Brazilian companies and public institutions.

Luiz Galeazzi is Managing Director in Galeazzi & Associados and has over 11 years of project leadership experience in high-value management consulting. He is specialized in crisis management and strategic operating plans. Luiz has also lead judicial and extra-judicial recoveries covered by the new and old Brazilian bankruptcy law.

Antonio Toro is a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in charge of Business Restructuring Services in Brazil experienced in financial restructuring, feasibility studies, valuations, M&A and auditing. Toro has been elected in the prominent Leader’s Forum Group organized by the Brazilian financial newspaper Gazeta Mercantil.

João Roberto Gonçalves Teixeira is Executive Vice President of Grupo Santander in Brasil, being responsible for the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB). He joined Banco ABN AMRO Real S/A in 2002 as Executive Vice President / Managing Director and member of the Board of Directors of the Bank in Brazil. His professional experience includes: PUC RJ (Professor of the Economic Departament), Ministry of Finance (Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance) and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (Head of Investment Banking - Brazil).He received a Bachelor degree in Economics (1983-1987) and a Master Degree in Economics (1988-1989) at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica – Rio de Janeiro.In addition, also holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at London Business School.He has been a Director of ANBID (Associação Nacional de Bancos de Investimento) since 2007.

Luiz Alberto Fiore is the partner of the Deloitte and also the Financial Advisory Services (FAS), appointed by the Rio de Janeiro State Tribunal Court, as the Trustee in Recovery Law Suit for Varig recovery process, actual Trustee of Selecta, Agrenco and Albertina. He has coordinated the Deloitte Survey on the New Recovery Law impact , coordinated and chatted in a Up-to-dating Course of the New Recovery Law applicability to the Magistrates of EMAP the Magistracy School of Paraná State.

Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva is Partner in the litigation area of the São Paulo office of law firm Pinheiro Neto Advogados. He advises financially distressed companies, investors and creditors concerning turnaround and insolvency. He was a member of the Joint Ministerial Committee that drafted the final wording of the new Brazilian Bankruptcy Law.

Manoel Pereira Calças is Court of Appeal Judge for the state of São Paulo, professor in universities since 1974 and in the Paulista School of Magistrates. He has bachelor and a master degree in law. He teaches Commercial Law in master degree programmes in Pontifícada Universidade Católica university in São Paulo and is professor in the Faculdade Autônoma de Direito of São Paulo – FADISP

Oscar Bernardes is a Partner with Integra Associados that has two main areas of activities, consulting and investments, both focused on distressed assets and/or start-ups. He has extensive experience in business management and as Board member in renowned corporations in Brazil and abroad.

Paolo Pellegrini is Executive Director of Banco Itau BBA. He has extensive practical experience in helping companies to raise capital through equity and debt and is involved with the lending and underwriting business. He also has an oversight role on major negotiations with corporate clients that face financial distress or are restructuring debt.

Renato is a founding Partner of Angra Partners, a private equity and advisory firm. He has been involved in restructuring processes, including Brasil Ferrovias R$ 3.4 billion restructuring and Kepler Weber R$ 550 million recovery. Before Angra, Renato has worked corporate finance area in US and Europe.

Renato Luiz de Macedo Mange is the founding partner of the firm “Renato Mange Advogados Associados”. Mr. Mange holds a law degree from the University of São Paulo (USP) School of Law (class of 1974). He is qualified to practice before the São Paulo section of the Brazilian Bar (OAB/SP) under No. 35585. Former President of the São Paulo Lawyers Association (“Associação dos Advogados de São Paulo, AASP”) (1995/96). Expert in bankruptcy law for over 35 (thirty-five) years. Legal adviser to financial institutions. Member of the joint Commissions formed by Brazilian Bar (“OAB”) and São Paulo Lawyers Institute ( “Instituto dos Advogados de São Paulo”) to analyze and discuss the bill for the new Bankruptcy Law (enacted in 2005). Mr Mange frequently gives courses and speaches on Judicial Restructuring and Bankruptcy in public and private entities.

Eduardo Secchi Munhoz is Partner in Lilla, Huck, Otranto Camargo e Munhoz’s Law firm. He is member of several Law research and deveopment. He is a formal Judge in the São Paulo State Tax court and author of the book "Empresa Contemporânea e Direito societário - grupo de sociedades e poder de controle", and innumerous articles.

Julio kahan is a lawyer, specialized in Bankruptcy Law. He is member of the Ministerial committee that elaborated Brazil’s New Bankruptcy Law, Board Member of the Brazilian Order of Layers in the state of São Paulo state. Author of the book “Nova lei de Falências e Recuperação de Empresas Anotada (Saraiva 2005). Vice Chair of MDA the group in defense of Brazilian lawyers .

Eduardo Lemos is Managing Partner for Perform Management & Consulting. He has been involved with early turnaround, market and operational performance improvement, interim management and consulting assignments in Europe, South America and Middle East. He is member of the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance and TMA-Brazil President.

Renato is a founding Partner of Angra Partners, a private equity and advisory firm. He has been involved in restructuring processes, including Brasil Ferrovias R$ 3.4 billion restructuring and Kepler Weber R$ 550 million recovery. Before Angra, Renato has worked corporate finance area in US and Europe.

Eduardo Gomide is the director of Financial Service divisions of Kroll in Latin America and the Managing Director in Brazil. He has 15 years of experience in financial and IT risks and fraud prevention consulting. He has been in charge of big projects in several industries.

Ivo Waisberg is a lawyer with Wald Associados Advogados. JSD in International Economic Relations Law and LLM in Commercial Law at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. LLM in Trade Regulation at the New York University School of Law. Teacher-Author of the On-line Banking Law Course of FGV-RJ. Invited teacher at the GV-Law specialization course of Corporate Law and Teacher of Financial and Capital Market Law and Stock Market of LLM Course at IBMEC-SP. Author of Civil Responsibility of Commercial Bank Managers' (Revista dos Tribunais, 2002) and Law and Competition Policy For Development Countries (Lex Editora, 2006). Organizer of the book Banking Agreements, (Quartier Latin, 2006), in addition to other law articles. Acted as legal advisor of VASP and Laginha Agroindustrial in the approval of the in-court turnaround plan. Acted as legal advisor of major financial institutions on judicial restructuring procedures, such as, Agrenco and Selecta’s procedures. Acted as legal advisor of major companies on debt restructuring procedures (out of court), such as Aracruz Celulose’s renegotiation of derivatives.

Salvatore has experience at Bayerische Private Bankers, as credit analyst, working with the team of Emerging Markets, and at Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co., as rating analyst. He worked at Banca Commerciale Italiana (currently Intesa Sanpaolo), participating in various projects of restructuring and acquisition in the European Union, in East Europe and Latin America. Since May 2002 he has been working full time in the Restructuring department at KPMG in Brazil, leading various financial and operational restructuring processes, crisis management processes to cash management in a financial crisis situation, planning and implementation of turnarounds, restructuring processes in judicial and extrajudicial recovery procedures, renegotiation of debts for the management of communication processes with financial/operational creditors and unions, fund raising and sale of assets. Salvatore has also been leading transactions and solutions for “defaulted credit portfolios” (NPLs – Non Performing Loans).

André Schwartzman has occupied executive-level positions in mid and large-size public and private companies, with experience in turnaround and new business start-ups. Has Served as Controller of Infinity Bio-Energy S/A, witch is an AIM- and CVM/Bovespa-listed Brazilian company that produces renewable fuels, with an emphasis on ethanol made from sugarcane (US$ 170 million sales revenue). He had been Controller and Executive in charge of Planning and Business Management of Parmalat Brasil S/A, a CVM/Bovespa-listed food and beverage company (US$ 500 million sales revenue), in witch he had an active role in its recovery process. Acted as Chief Financial Officer in healthcare and retails companies in Brazil. As consultant, has developed projects at a number of companies, with a focus on auto parts and retail industries. Since October 2008 he has been working as Director in Restructuring department at KPMG Brazil, leading various projects in court-driven restructuring, operational and financial restructuring, crisis cash management, and profit improvement programas. He is the leader of the Totaal Cash and Working Capital practice in Brazil, a global KPMG methodology aimed at improving the management of cash and related assets and liabilities in an efficient and cost effective basis in order to optimize liquidity and improve profitability.

Fabio Rosas, partner in the Litigation, Tax Law and Debt Restructuring and Workouts practice groups of Tozzini Freire Advogados. Graduated from the Law School of Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) in 1993 and studied at the Academy of American and International Law, organized by the Center for American and International Law, in Dallas, Texas, USA, in 2007. Fábio is member of the Brazilian Bar Association, Federal District (2003) and São Paulo State (1993) sections, the Association of Lawyers of São Paulo (AASP), the Brazilian Center of Judicial Studies and Research (CEBEPEJ), the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL) and the International Institute of Insolvency. He is also co-author of the Brazil chapter from the book “The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Corporate Recovery and Insolvency 2008”. London: Global Legal Group Ltd, 2008.

Vander Giordano is the director of Intelligence and Development of Kroll in Latin America. He has been working more than ten years executing and supervising projects to reduce corporative risks. He is expert in several kinds of issues as: fraud identification and prevention, assets recovery, litigation support, “due diligence”, IP protection, investigation of disloyal competition and fiscal problems, large sectors’ experience in Energy, Aeronautical, Banking, Retail and Steel sectors.