Isabela Bueno Ojima

A lawyer with extensive experience in environmental advisory work and litigation, Isabela graduated in Law from PUC/SP (2019) with honors. She furthered her studies with a Master’s in Diffuse and Collective Rights from the same university (2023), focusing on Environmental Law and Sustainability. Her master’s thesis addressed the complexity of “Resíduos sólidos e a economia circular no Brasil: a logística reversa de embalagens e os desafios de sua aplicação” (Solid waste and the circular economy in Brazil: packaging reverse logistics and the challenges of its implementation).

Her professional career was built at major law firms, acting for global clients in landmark, highly complex cases in both advisory and litigation matters. Her expertise covers a wide range of topics, such as civil, administrative and criminal environmental liability, contaminated sites, environmental licensing, solid waste, sanitation and ESG. She also holds certificates from specialized environmental courses, including “Theory and Practice of Waste Management in Brazil: Legal and Business Aspects” and “Reverse Logistics Course”, both from the Instituto O Direito por um Planeta Verde – a nationally renowned institution in the research, improvement and consolidation of environmental legislation – and “Socio-Environmental Risks”, from FGV/SP.

In academia, Isabela is the author of several scientific articles published in renowned law journals, such as “Dos Conflitos Urbanos e Ambientais nos Espaços Públicos: a Situação dos Trabalhadores Informais: os Catadores e Catadoras de Materiais Recicláveis no Pós-Pandemia”; “A Extrafiscalidade à Luz da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos: o Direito ao Tratamento Tributário Isonômico como Garantidor da Efetividade dos Sistemas de Logística Reversa”; and “Possibilidades mitigatórias de danos ambientais advindos de resíduos sólidos: a responsabilidade civil ambiental das instituições de serviços de saúde”, in Revista Unimar.