Lisa A. Alfaro

Lisa A. Alfaro is the partner in charge of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s São Paulo office and is Co-Chair of the Latin America Practice Group. She is also a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Group and the Power and Renewables Group. Prior to moving to São Paulo in 2009 to open and run the São Paulo office, Ms. Alfaro was based in the New York office.

For more than 20 years, Ms. Alfaro has advised U.S. and multi-national companies on their most significant and critical matters, including corporate transactions, corporate compliance and investigations. Ms. Alfaro represents developers, investment banks, private funds, Fortune 100 companies, state owned entities and investors in the U.S. and Brazil. Throughout her career, Ms. Alfaro has advised clients in milestone cross-border transactions, coordinating and supervising multi-jurisdictional cross disciplinary teams in complex transactions.

Ms. Alfaro leverages her corporate experience in the planning and implementation of internal corporate investigations, advising on the structuring, implementation and assessment of compliance management systems and representing companies before U.S. authorities. She guides compliance officers, senior executives, legal officers and board members in analyzing and managing risk in their business operations and provides day to day counsel on strategic matters. Ms. Alfaro advises boards of directors and executive officers on crisis management, counseling them on critical challenges to the company, balancing various stakeholders’ interests and expectations.

Ms. Alfaro regularly speaks on corporate, compliance and anti-corruption topics. She has appeared in webcasts speaking on the topic of Anti-Corruption Enforcement and Compliance.

Ms. Alfaro was seconded to Enron as an in-house lawyer in Rio during 2000-2001.

Ms. Alfaro is recognized as a leading lawyer for Corporate and M&A by The Best Lawyers in Brazil. She is listed as one of the “Top 100 Female Lawyers” in the area of Latin America Energy and FCPA & Fraud for 2019 and 2018 by Latinvex, which also named her to the Latin America “Top 50 Female Lawyers” list for 2014, 2016 and 2017. In addition, Ms. Alfaro was selected among the “Inspiring Women in Law” by Latin Lawyer in November 2013.

Ms. Alfaro joined the Firm in 1995 after earning her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School, where she was a member of the Law and Policy Review. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in government with high honors from the University of Texas in 1991.

Ms. Alfaro is a member of the California and New York bars and speaks Spanish and Portuguese.