GC of the Year: Thalles Paixão

Thalles Paixão, winner of LACCA’s General Counsel of the Year Award, skilfully navigated telecoms company Oi through its first judicial reorganisation, setting invaluable precedents for the practice of corporate recovery in Brazil. Speaking to LACCA, the GC unpacks the key successes of the process and explains how building a “close-knit” team of internal and external lawyers is the antidote to crisis.