Oswaldo Filho is a Brazilian lawyer based in São Paulo, where he worked as a partner of Demarest e Almeida, one of Brazil's largest law firms. He was admitted to the bar in Brazil in 1974 and later earned a master's degree in comparative jurisprudence from New York University in 1979.
Education
Oswaldo Filho completed graduate study at New York University, where he received a Master of Comparative Jurisprudence degree in 1979. New York University, founded in 1831 in New York City, is a private research university whose graduate professional and academic programs drew students from many countries.
His legal qualification in Brazil followed a different path: he was admitted to the bar in Brazil in 1974. Admission to the bar in Brazil entitles a lawyer to practice law before Brazilian courts and in the country's legal system, and it marked his entry into the Brazilian legal profession before his later partnership at a São Paulo firm.
Career
Oswaldo Filho practiced law in São Paulo as a partner of Demarest e Almeida. The firm was founded in 1948 in São Paulo by the American lawyer Kenneth E. Demarest and the Brazilian lawyer João Batista Pereira de Almeida, at a time when multinational companies were beginning to establish operations in Brazil and clients sought legal services from larger firms modeled on foreign practice.
Demarest e Almeida developed into one of the largest law firms in Brazil, with a practice spanning corporate, commercial, and cross-border matters. In 2013 the firm formally changed its name to Demarest Advogados, reflecting the recognition that the Demarest name had gained over the decades.
