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Gustavo Tavares Borba

He works in the advisory and litigation areas, specializing in corporate law, capital markets, and business litigation. He was a Director of the CVM (Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil) and Head of the Legal Department of the Commercial Registry of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of the books “Opinions and Studies on Capital Markets and Corporate Law” (2026), “Conflict of Interests in the Corporate Environment” (2023), and “Business Law in the Superior Court of Justice” (2022), in addition to having several legal articles published in specialized journals. He holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Commercial Law from PUC/SP. Visiting Scholar in Columbia Law School, He is a speaker and responsible for the capital markets module of the LLM program at FGV/RJ and was a visiting professor at PUC/RJ (2020/2022). He is the director and founder of IDMCap – Institute of Capital Markets Law, as well as a member of the Capital Markets Commission of the OAB/RJ (Brazilian Bar Association, Rio de Janeiro chapter).

Publications:

Books

Conflict of Interests in the Corporate Environment

Quartier Latin Publishing House, 2023
Gustavo Tavares Borba
Books

Securities and Exchange Commission – Commented Precedents

Forense Publishing House, 2021
Gustavo Tavares Borba
Articles

Rules of CVM Resolution No. 175 regarding the Origination and Assignment of Credits by the Manager, Consultant, and Administrator of the FIDC (Investment Fund in Credit Rights).

Published in "Investment Funds - CVM Resolution 175 and Other Topics - Vol. II"; São Paulo: Quartier Latin, 2025. Edited by Marina Copola and Lucas Hermeto.
Gustavo Tavares Borba, Luiza Coelho da Rocha
Articles

Investor responsibilities: general rules and specific situations related to FIPs (Private Equity Investment Funds).

Published in “Investment Fund Law”; 1st ed., São Paulo: Thomson Reuters Brasil, 2023, Coord. Fernando Kuyven
Gustavo Melo Gabriel, Gustavo Tavares Borba, Luiza Coelho da Rocha
Articles

Regarding joint and several contractual civil liability between the administrator and manager of an investment fund.

Published in RSDE - Semiannual Journal of Business Law - No. 28
Gustavo Tavares Borba, José Edwaldo Tavares Borba
Articles

The Legal Regime of Private Law as an Interpretative Vector of the New Statute of State-Owned Enterprises

Published in: Current Issues in Corporate Law and Capital Markets, vol. II, Lumen Juris Publishing.
Gustavo Tavares Borba
Articles

Corporate Arbitration in Publicly Held Companies: Peculiarities and a Proposed Model

Gustavo Tavares Borba
Articles

Invalidation of the General Assembly and its Resolutions

Published in: Treatise on Commercial Law, vol. II, edited by Fabio Ulhoa Coelho. Saraiva, 2015
Gustavo Tavares Borba
Articles

Sanctioning Activity in the Capital Market: Main Objectives, Justification, and Imperatives of Legal Certainty

Published in RSDE, Semiannual Journal of Business Law, no. 24
Gustavo Tavares Borba
Articles

Case Law Disincentives to Derivative Actions

Published in: Valor Econômico newspaper, February 9, 2023
Gustavo Tavares Borba