Luiz de Alencar Araripe Junior began his professional life at Petrobrás – Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., participating in the opening of the company’s office in Houston, Texas, and the acquisition of considerable part of the equipment and technology to be used in the offshore fields of Campos (Brazil).

Back to Brazil in 1982, he founded, with Hans Otto Schoeder and Shigeji Uchida, what would later become the firm Araripe & Associados.

Luiz Araripe Jr. has been working in paradigmatic cases in the area of Intellectual Property, over the 40+ years of our office´s existence, being responsible for its management and coordination of our litigation area.

Capabilities:

Trademarks, Patents, Unfair Competition, Copyright and Litigation.

Education:

• Law Degree by Rio de Janeiro’s State University (UERJ).