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PAULA D. STOLAR

Associate

Compliance, Investigations, & White Collar Criminal Law

(Portuguese, English, Spanish)

+55 11 992 138 336

Professional Experience:

Paula is a legal professional with extensive experience in White-Collar Crime and Economic Criminal Law. She has worked on complex cases involving fraud, unfair competition, intellectual property and brand protection, embezzlement, money laundering, and tax evasion, representing the interests of companies across a range of industries—from airlines to financial institutions.

She has also led high-profile internal investigations involving reputational risk and media exposure, particularly in cases of large-scale fraud and labor union issues in the water and sanitation sector. Her practice includes handling highly sensitive investigations related to sexual and moral harassment, both at the operational level and within executive leadership (C-Level).

Affiliations and other credentials

  • Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Section:
    - Member of the Special Compliance Committe
    - Member of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Committe
    - Woman in Law Under 30 (Co-founder)

  • Certifications
    - DELE (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera) – Certified Spanish Speaker – Instituto Cervantes

Education

  • Specialization degree in Compliance, FGV-SP (in progress)

  • J.D. (Law Degree), University of São Paulo – USP

Selected Publications and Speaking Engagements

  • Article Is Anti-Semitic Insult Racial or Religious?, on Conjur (Brazilian legal news platform)

  • Co-author, article Lilac August: Violence against women and company’s social responsability, on Migalhas (Brazilian legal news platform)

  • Co-author, article Criminal Implications of Drone Usage, on Estadão (Brazilian newspaper)

  • Co-author, article “This Woman”: The Authoritarian Removal of Deborah Duprat from the National Human Rights Council, published by Humanities and Innovation Review

Professional Experience:

Paula is a legal professional with extensive experience in White-Collar Crime and Economic Criminal Law. She has worked on complex cases involving fraud, unfair competition, intellectual property and brand protection, embezzlement, money laundering, and tax evasion, representing the interests of companies across a range of industries—from airlines to financial institutions.

She has also led high-profile internal investigations involving reputational risk and media exposure, particularly in cases of large-scale fraud and labor union issues in the water and sanitation sector. Her practice includes handling highly sensitive investigations related to sexual and moral harassment, both at the operational level and within executive leadership (C-Level).

Affiliations and other credentials

  • Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Section:
    - Member of the Special Compliance Committe
    - Member of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Committe
    - Woman in Law Under 30 (Co-founder)

  • Certifications
    - DELE (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera) – Certified Spanish Speaker – Instituto Cervantes

Education

  • Specialization degree in Compliance, FGV-SP (in progress)

  • J.D. (Law Degree), University of São Paulo – USP

Selected Publications and Speaking Engagements

  • Article Is Anti-Semitic Insult Racial or Religious?, on Conjur (Brazilian legal news platform)

  • Co-author, article Lilac August: Violence against women and company’s social responsability, on Migalhas (Brazilian legal news platform)

  • Co-author, article Criminal Implications of Drone Usage, on Estadão (Brazilian newspaper)

  • Co-author, article “This Woman”: The Authoritarian Removal of Deborah Duprat from the National Human Rights Council, published by Humanities and Innovation Review

Professional Experience:

Paula is a legal professional with extensive experience in White-Collar Crime and Economic Criminal Law. She has worked on complex cases involving fraud, unfair competition, intellectual property and brand protection, embezzlement, money laundering, and tax evasion, representing the interests of companies across a range of industries—from airlines to financial institutions.

She has also led high-profile internal investigations involving reputational risk and media exposure, particularly in cases of large-scale fraud and labor union issues in the water and sanitation sector. Her practice includes handling highly sensitive investigations related to sexual and moral harassment, both at the operational level and within executive leadership (C-Level).

Affiliations and other credentials

  • Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo Section:
    - Member of the Special Compliance Committe
    - Member of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Committe
    - Woman in Law Under 30 (Co-founder)

  • Certifications
    - DELE (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera) – Certified Spanish Speaker – Instituto Cervantes

Education

  • Specialization degree in Compliance, FGV-SP (in progress)

  • J.D. (Law Degree), University of São Paulo – USP

Selected Publications and Speaking Engagements

  • Article Is Anti-Semitic Insult Racial or Religious?, on Conjur (Brazilian legal news platform)

  • Co-author, article Lilac August: Violence against women and company’s social responsability, on Migalhas (Brazilian legal news platform)

  • Co-author, article Criminal Implications of Drone Usage, on Estadão (Brazilian newspaper)

  • Co-author, article “This Woman”: The Authoritarian Removal of Deborah Duprat from the National Human Rights Council, published by Humanities and Innovation Review

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