Arthur Rotenberg is a Brazilian lawyer based in São Paulo, where he has been a partner of the law firm Lima Gonçalves, Jambor, Rotenberg & Silveira Bueno since 1992. He practices in banking, corporate, intellectual property, and foreign investment law, and he has held leadership roles in São Paulo's Jewish community institutions.
Background
Arthur Rotenberg was born in São Paulo, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The city was the state capital and a growing commercial and industrial center, and it also developed an extensive network of Jewish institutions. Early organizations included the Kahal Israel Synagogue, founded in 1912, and the Gymnasio Hebraico-Brasileiro Renascença, established in 1922 as the first Jewish-Brazilian school in São Paulo to teach the official curriculum.
The Renascença school belonged to the wider community life of the city, which later centered on A Hebraica de São Paulo. That association was founded in 1954 and grew into a major sports and social club and the largest Jewish organization in Brazil. Rotenberg's father, Naum Rotenberg, served two terms as president of the club, and Arthur Rotenberg was its president when the club marked its fiftieth anniversary.
Education
Rotenberg studied law at the Catholic University Law School of São Paulo, the law faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). The university was formed in 1946 from the union of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of São Bento, which had been founded in 1908, and the Paulista Faculty of Law. Pope Pius XII granted it the title of pontifical in 1947, and it remains a private Catholic university maintained by the Archdiocese of São Paulo.
He later earned a Master of Comparative Law from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1985. The University of Illinois is a public university in the United States, and its College of Law in Champaign conferred the degree. The comparative focus of that degree relates to the international banking and foreign investment work listed in his professional profile.
Rotenberg speaks Portuguese and English.
Career
Rotenberg was admitted to the Brazilian bar in 1982, and his professional career has been centered on São Paulo. He practices at Lima Gonçalves, Jambor, Rotenberg & Silveira Bueno Advogados, a firm established in 1981 by José Artur Lima Gonçalves and Miguel Carlos Alberto Jambor. Rotenberg joined the partnership in 1992, and Edgard Silveira Bueno Filho joined in 1996. The firm's documented practice areas include tax law, international banking, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and foreign investment, and it advises Brazilian and foreign companies.
His professional profile lists International Banking Law, corporate law, intellectual property, and foreign investment law as his specializations. A later profile describes his focus as corporate and M&A work, contracts, and investments, as well as conflict resolution and real estate matters.
Rotenberg also served as legal consultant to the Consulate General of Israel in São Paulo and to the Embassy of Israel in Brasília. Diplomatic missions provide services for their home country and manage its bilateral relations, and legal advisers to such missions typically handle questions of local law and contractual matters.
Membership
Rotenberg is a member of the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, the national bar association that admits lawyers to practice in Brazil and regulates the legal profession. He is also a member of the Associação dos Advogados de São Paulo, the professional association of lawyers in the state of São Paulo.
He belongs to the International Association of Jewish Lawyers, an international professional body for lawyers linked to the Jewish community. Within the Brazil-Israel Chamber of Commerce, which promotes business ties between the two countries, he served as a director.
Rotenberg was president of the deliberative council of the Sociedade Hebraico-Brasileira Renascença, an institution whose school in São Paulo dates to 1922. He also served as president of A Hebraica de São Paulo. A commemorative book for the club's fiftieth anniversary carries a preface written by him.
Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil
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Brazil
1982 - present
Associação dos Advogados de São Paulo
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Brazil
International Association of Jewish Lawyers
Director
Câmara de Comércio Brasil-Israel
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Brazil
President of the Deliberative Council
Sociedade Hebraico-Brasileira Renascença
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Brazil
President
A Hebraica de São Paulo
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Brazil
Connections
Rotenberg's father, Naum Rotenberg, served two terms as president of A Hebraica de São Paulo. Within the law firm, Rotenberg practices alongside the founding partners José Artur Lima Gonçalves and Miguel Carlos Alberto Jambor, and with partner Edgard Silveira Bueno Filho, whose names form the firm's title.
Father:
Naum Rotenberg
Served two terms as president of A Hebraica de São Paulo.
Collegue :
José Artur Lima Gonçalves
Co-founder of Lima Gonçalves, Jambor, Rotenberg & Silveira Bueno Advogados in 1981, with whom Rotenberg practices as a partner.
Collegue :
Miguel Carlos Alberto Jambor
Co-founder of Lima Gonçalves, Jambor, Rotenberg & Silveira Bueno Advogados in 1981, with whom Rotenberg practices as a partner.
References
Arthur Rotenberg, LimaLaw firm profile
Firm biography describing Rotenberg's practice areas, his bar and professional affiliations, and his legal advisory roles for the Israeli consulate and embassy.
A Hebraica: 50 years of successes, Morashá
Article on the fiftieth anniversary of A Hebraica de São Paulo that quotes Rotenberg as the club's president and refers to his preface to the commemorative book.
Legislative Assembly of São Paulo session record
Record of a legislative session in which Rotenberg, as president of the deliberative council of the Sociedade Hebraico-Brasileira Renascença, addressed the chamber.
