Alessandra Carolina Rossi Martins

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ABOUT ALESSANDRA CAROLINA ROSSI MARTINS

Alessandra is a researcher in the legal fields of regulatory models, financial innovation, and regulation. Her research focuses on the intersection of financial regulation and innovation and the role of disrupting regulatory models in fostering and enabling innovation. Alessandra is currently an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where her research focuses on the role of regulatory sandboxes as as tool for innovation in the financial sector and building a better understanding of the regulatory models for regulatory sandboxes. Alessandra is also a research and teaching fellow in the Engineering Ethics Program at the University of Pennsylvania Engineering School with focus on relation between ethics and regulation. Alessandra is also a Parner at Machado Meyer Advogados with focus on banking & financing and technology & innovation departments. She has represented clients in connection with a wide range of corporate and regulatory matters and has played a critical role in some of the most significant corporate transactions in Latin America involving financial and payments institutions, foreign exchange, Fintechs, blockchain & DeFi, cryptocurrencies & NFTs, ICOs & tokenization, instant payments & Pix, Open Banking, regulatory sandboxes and other related subjects, including in the development of groundbreaking regulatory frameworks issued by Brazilian agencies such as the Central Bank and the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission. Alessandra\'s experience also includes representation of national and foreign entrepreneurs, startups, Venture Capital funds in the structuring of innovative projects, mapping of legal risks 360º, investment rounds (from angel to late stage investments), and exits.