Member Profiles

The same language between clients and lawyers… Ronaldo Martins & Advogados (Law Firm) has been established from the idea that the legal services shall be provided in order to establish a common language between clients and lawyers. Such view guided concepts, structures and way of working. One of the major challenges of the law firms is to integrate the legal services to the business development. For Ronaldo Martins & Advogados (Law Firm), the purpose was to overcome this challenge, causing the firm to be a facilitator, an instrument to add value to the results pursued by our clients. Such vision of the offering of legal services allowed us to have an immediate identity with our clients and their legal problems, establishing partnerships, making easier the search for alternatives and allowing us to innovate, create and offer distinguished solutions. In summary, our purpose is to contribute to increase the corporate productivity, making the legal information accessible to all levels of the company, aiming at adding value in the conduction of the clients’ businesses. The legal services shall not be considered as an end in themselves but means to achieve the final objective of every company: the profit with social responsibility.

STÜSSI-NEVES ADVOGADOS was founded in 1977. Our staff is currently comprised of professionals (partners, associates and consultants) allocated in offices in São Paulo and in Rio de Janeiro. Our clients are mainly Foreign companies with Brazilian subsidiaries, companies willing to start operating in Brazil or companies willing to or already doing business with Brazil.

Sally Cox has over 20 years’ experience in the British Virgin Islands. She has a very wide range of experience in non-contentious and corporate and commercial matters. She gained a vast knowledge while working in the Financial Services Industry at the beginning of her career. This foundation combined with her many years of experience working with large offshore law firms at partner level has provided her with a unique perspective and an ability to handle complex matters with a commercial and practical approach and she is well known for finding creative solutions to complicated legal situations. Sally Cox was awarded her LLB from the University of the West Indies and went on to attain a Master of Laws in Commercial Law from the University of London. She has worked at partner level with several firms including a leading international law firm based in the British Virgin Islands and has also held the position of Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer, Compliance Officer and Managing Director of a trust company.

With over fifteen (15) years experience in law, as a Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) Nelcia specializes in (i) Commercial Litigation; (ii) Corporate and Insolvency Law; (iii) Corporate Governance; (v) Corporate Restructuring: Plans of Arrangement, Schemes of Arrangement and Mergers; and (vi) Property Law. Nelcia has appeared in the Commercial Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Virgin Islands) and have had conduct of many matters in the Civil Division of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (Virgin Islands) in matters in respect of companies and company disputes. In addition to trials, her work at Court featured Interim applications and applications for injunctive relief; applications for the appointments of liquidators; applications for the restoration of BVI companies and rectification of share registers; and applications for a range of other relief available to directors and shareholders under the BVI Business Companies & Insolvency Acts. Member of Lincoln’s Inn,  BVI Bar Association, President of the Rotary Club of Central Tortola and Former President of the Rotary Club of Central Tortola. Admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (non-practising) 2005, Admitted to the Bar of British Virgin Islands 2005. Notary Public & Commissioner of Oaths.