Christian Brito

About Christian Brito

A seasoned leader in cross-cultural legal environments with two decades of international legal leadership in highly regulated and complex markets across the media, technology, telecommunications, and infrastructure sectors. Proven records of legal strategy aligned with business growth across global markets — particularly in Latin America. Fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Highlights of my career include: • Solid experience in private and public funding projects - including in regulated environments – in infrastructure, telecommunications, technology, and media & entertainment industries.•Enhanced compliance & internal controls levels that led to significant efficiencies and effective compliance oversight.• Facilitated the liaison between Legal Departments and BoDs resulting in revenue growth with adherence to corporate standards.• Provided strategic key advice to Board of Directors and internal stakeholders, combining innovative solutions and risk management with a results-driven approach, addressing all business issues comprehensively.• Successfully negotiated USD 2+ billion infrastructure contracts across Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, and Europe, leveraging strong business advisory skills to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and internal policy frameworks.• Handled strategies to solve complex international conflicts (achieving close to 100% of the targeted goal), minimizing reputational risk through effective litigation management.• Led global wide business expansion processes: incorporated several corporate structures - through M & As, Joint Venture agreements, Memorandum of Understanding, and others - in approximately 40 different countries worldwide, driving successful new business venture initiatives.• Highly experienced with publicly listed companies and regulatory environments.

Experience

1. Head of Legal - Latin America

   Nielsen

   Mar 2021 — Present · Miami Beach, FL, US

   Re-structured the LatAm Regional Legal Department. Promoted its integration with the legal global department; enhanced management and controls resulting in budget efficiencies of approximately 10% right in the first year.• Responsible for providing strategic key advice and guidance to the CLO, BoD, and other internal stakeholders, focusing on innovative solutions, business growth and compliance oversight.• Provided results-driven legal advice in several different matters, having successfully negotiated licensing agreements (broadcasters, agencies, advertisers), contracts with vendors, real estate transactions. Managed litigation matters, employment and union relation matters, anti-trust and regulatory issues, and data privacy.• Helped the commercial department to achieve goals and margins with a business-oriented and growth driven approach in contract negotiations and public tenders across the different business unit s.• Supported M&A transactions in all different stages, from conception (e.g, initial assessments, due diligences, LOIs, term sheets) through closing (e.g, SPAs, shareholder agreements, JV agreements) and post-integration matters (e.g, TSAs, etc).• Enhanced compliance and corporate governance levels. Created new policies, participated in training programs.• Led different cross-functional key initiatives with several different departments (e.g, HR, Tax, Finance, Treasury, Compliance, Controllership).• Team management, coaching and mentoring to enhance unit operations and legal strategy execution.

Education

• Universidade Paulista

  Doctor of Law (J.D.), Law

  1993 — 1997

• Ibmec

  Master of Laws - LLM, Corporate

  2002 — 2004

• University of Miami School of Law

  Master of Laws (LL.M.), US and Transnational Law for Foreign Lawyers

  2015 — 2016

• PUC-COGEAE

  Extension, Contracts

  1998 — 1999

• Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa

  Executive Program, Leadership and Strategic Team Management

  2013 — 2013