Overview
João Cunha is a senior associate in the Employment & Benefits practice at Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown, based in the Brasília office.
He has consolidated experience in advising domestic and foreign clients, focusing his activities on some of the most relevant subjects of corporate labor law currently, such as labor consulting, legal opinions, due diligences and high-complexity labor litigation. He also has wide experience with clients in the sectors of technology, education, energy, oil & gas, transportations, banking, capital markets, aviation, manufacturing, among others.
He has consolidated experience in advising domestic and foreign clients, focusing his activities on some of the most relevant subjects of corporate labor law currently, such as labor consulting, legal opinions, due diligences and high-complexity labor litigation. He also has wide experience with clients in the sectors of technology, education, energy, oil & gas, transportations, banking, capital markets, aviation, manufacturing, among others.
Experience
- Strategic and high-complexity labor litigation, with emphasis in labor cases before the Superior Labor Court and the Supreme Court.
- Labor consulting, with a multidisciplinary vision in collaboration with other practices, focusing on preventive analysis and mitigation of labor risks.
- Advisement of labor matters in financial operations (mergers, acquisitions and capital markets) and high-complexity legal due diligences.
Education
- State University of Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, LLM, Labor and Social Security Law (Ongoing)
- Federal University (UFRJ) Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Law, 2015
- Universitat de València, Spain, Academic Exchange, 2015
Admissions
- Brazil
Languages
- English
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Professional & Community Involvement
- Invited Professor of Labor Law at Fundação Getúlio Vargas - Direito Rio in the course about the Football Corporation Law (Lei da SAF).
- Invited Professor of Labor Law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in subjects focused on entrepreneurs, start-ups and digital economy.