Andréa Françolin is the co-head of the Litigation, Arbitration, Consumer Law and Public Law practices at IWRCF.

Lawyer graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP, 2003), Andréa Françolin holds a postgraduate degree in Civil Procedural Law from the same University and attended a pre-LLM course at Penn State (Pennsylvania, USA, 2014).

She has a sound experience in dispute resolution and focuses her practice on strategic litigation, in both administrative and judicial spheres, as well as on Civil and Consumer Laws.

Andréa Françolin is nationally and internationally (Análise 500, Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners) recognized for her work in her specialty areas. According to Chambers and Partners, she is “a very skilled and practical lawyer” who is also very “strategic, diligent and knowledgeable of civil and procedural law” (2020). In addition, the publication highlighted that clients “appreciate her ‘ability to understand business needs and to translate it into pragmatic and innovative legal solutions that are easy to understand'” (2021). In past editions, she was regarded as an “extremely dedicated professional who is familiar with the smallest of details in cases, which is very reassuring to clients” (2018), and that she provides “great client service, total dedication to cases and outstanding performance in civil litigation matters” (2017).

Legal 500’s review comments that Andréa “understands her clients’ needs” and “never gives up” (2017). In the research carried out for the 2021 edition of Legal 500, sources described that Andréa “raises the bar on delivering excellence on every single matter handled by her or her team. She builds client intimacy and delivers an outstanding service and results“.