Marcelo Brunella Aziz Jorge

Marcelo Brunella Aziz Jorge is a lawyer in Brazil and Portugal. A native of São Paulo, he began court practice in 2014, while still at law school, in civil and commercial litigation. He was admitted to the Brazilian Bar in 2019 and, in 2022, to the Portuguese Bar, where he first practised on the island of Madeira before settling in Lisbon.

His practice sits at the intersection of regulatory law, foreign trade and white-collar criminal law, with particular experience in the gold chain: mining titles, trading by institutions authorised by the Central Bank, export and the audit procedures that follow it. He advises financial institutions, miners, cooperatives and exporters in Brazil, Europe and the Middle East.

In Portugal and the European Union he acts in company formation, contracts governed by the European regulations, estates with assets in both countries and Portuguese nationality, representing mainly Brazilian and Portuguese-descended clients.

He holds a Bachelor of Laws from Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU), specialisations in Constitutional Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and in International Law from FMU, and is completing a specialisation in Administrative and Regulatory Law at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP). He holds certificates in Contract Drafting from the Université de Genève and in Game Theory from Stanford University. He works in Portuguese, English, Spanish and Arabic.