Carlos Eduardo Carneiro Saba

Chief Legal Officer and Institutional Affairs Director at Louis Dreyfus Company for North Latam

Greater São Paulo Area

About

Lawyer, leader, business enabler, problem solver, and lifelong learner. Client-obsessed, curious, and passionate about life and people. A storyteller at heart, with a geek’s enthusiasm for technology and AI-driven digital transformation.

Experience

  • Louis Dreyfus Company (Full-time · 9 yrs 9 mos)
    • Chief Legal Officer for North Latam
      Oct 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 9 mos

    • Institutional Affairs Director for North Latam
      May 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

    • Global Legal Business Partner for Food and Feed Solutions
      May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Board member and Investor at Malaika
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Malaika is a social business startup developed as part of the FIA MBA, focused in generating positive career impact of black girls in Brazil through the use of artificial intelligence and dedicated mentorship.

  • Partner at Pires Advogados & Consultores
    May 2015 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

    * Partner in charge of the São Paulo office; * Partner in charge of corporate, contracts, real estate, special projects, infrastructure and LPO.

  • Legal Manager - North Latam Region at Louis Dreyfus Commodities
    Oct 2012 - May 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    * Manager in charge for civil, commercial, contracts, consumer, financing, merger and acquisitions, real state, import and export, compliance and corporate law of the north Latin America region of the Louis Dreyfus Commodities Group; * Direct report to the company’s CLO and leadership over 6 in-house individuals; * Contracts and business strategies – in charge of about 15,000 contracts a year, leading projects for the standardization of contracts, training sessions, new proceedings for the control of the contractual demand and new flows of contract process; * M&A and special projects – leading projects in North Latam Region and in Lusophone Africa; * Finance agreements; * Corporate matters; * Antitrust; * Compliance; * General support to civil, environmental, labor, regulatory and criminal litigation; and * Trademarks.

  • Litigation Legal Manager at Biosev
    Jan 2010 - Sep 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    * Coordination of Civil, Environmental, Labor, Regulatory and Criminal judicial and administrative litigation and consulting; * Coordination of in-house litigation lawyers and legal clerks, as well as law firms; * Direct report to the company’s CLO; * Compliance and preventive programs on best commercial practices, Labor and Environmental Law; * Shareholders affairs; * Support in M&A and new projects; * Support to the communication department in press relationship; * Support in contracts and corporate matters.