Denise Oliveira is a Brazilian lawyer based in Rio de Janeiro, where she is recorded as a partner of Momsen, Leonardos & Cia, a long-established intellectual property law firm. She was admitted to the bar in Brazil in 1982, and her documented education is linked to the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.
Education
Oliveira's documented academic qualification is her admission to the bar in Brazil in 1982, linked to the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, today known as the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
PUC-Rio was founded in 1940 by Cardinal Sebastião Leme and Father Leonel Franca, and was the first private higher education institution in Brazil created by the Catholic Church. The university operates under the supervision of the Society of Jesus and is based on Christian humanistic principles. It welcomes students of all religions and nationalities, and its Catholic identity shaped its emphasis on humanistic values in the pursuit of knowledge.
Career
Oliveira's documented professional role is that of partner at Momsen, Leonardos & Cia, a law firm based in Rio de Janeiro. The firm's origins lie in a practice opened in Rio de Janeiro in 1919 by Richard P. Momsen, an American attorney, which later became Momsen & Harris.
Thomas O. Leonardos joined the firm in 1927, and in 1944 it took the name Momsen, Leonardos & Cia. By the end of the 1950s a second generation of partners had joined. The firm described its origins as an industrial property agency and built its work around protecting, enforcing and commercially using intellectual property rights for companies across many industries.
In 2012 the firm underwent structural change. Its intellectual property practice was reorganized, and the split of Momsen Leonardos & Cia on April 30, 2012 gave rise to successor firms, including Kasznar Leonardos and Luiz Leonardos & Advogados.
