ESG (environmental, social and governance)

Sion Advogados treats ESG as a strategic differential. Our multidisciplinary team offers comprehensive advice on implementing and strengthening environmental, social and governance practices safely and efficiently.

We support our clients in defining policies, risk management and alignment with legal requirements and international best practices, adding value and meeting the expectations of investors and stakeholders.

Our work includes:

  • Regulatory compliance and internal auditing.
  • Risk management and ESG maturity assessment.
  • Drawing up policies and strategic matrices.
  • Support in M&A and sustainable financing.
  • Contractual clauses and ESG reports.
  • Consulting on ESG-related crises and disputes.
  • Training and monitoring of company structure.

Responsible partners

Alexandre Sion
FOUNDING MEMBER
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Luiza Guerra
PARTNER
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testimonials

I’ve had the opportunity to be treated by Dr. Alexandre and his team on various occasions, always with a high level of excellence, professionalism, and attention to the client’s needs. He is a highly respected professional in the legal field, with extensive experience and recognized authority in the environmental field. His practice is guided by technical rigor, ethics, and a commitment to results.

Marina Tavares e Silva Pedersoli
Corporate Environmental and Mining Legal Manager
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre Sion is a professional I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with. First, together at Vale and then as a direct report at MMX and Anglo American. Leadership and the ability to manage people and strategic projects are natural abilities. He is an excellent professional and a person of integrity in his values and convictions, with intense experience in the law.

Thomas Jefferson Fowler
Lawyer
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is an outstanding student. During the time we studied together in Davis, California, I could realize that he is very disciplined, organized and is always looking for opportunities to learn and share knowledged with his colleagues. I should also mention his extra class behavior – he was perceived as a leader, organizing activities and always being available to help and cooperate with his classmates.

Tiago Achcar
VP & Assistant General Counsel, Americas at Rimini Street
aspas-depoimentos

I can most certainly recommend Alexandre as a highly skilled and efficient lawyer who has deep knowledge in international commercial law and especially environmental law issues. As a person Alexandre is very outgoing and social with good teamwork skills.

Timo Ylikantola
Lawyer
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a first-rate professional. I had the great opportunity to work with him at Vale, me in the maintenance department and him in the legal department. Whenever I turned to him, he was always able to give me answers in a short space of time, with a great deal of background information, so that we were always on the right side of the situation. He is ethical, proactive and keeps up to date.

Tulio Zandonaide Botelho
Technical and Commercial Director - TZB Engenharia e Consultoria
aspas-depoimentos

Highly focused and extremely dedicated, ALexandre is certainly one of the best in-house lawyers I have ever met. I strongly recommend him in the environmental law field.

Werner Grau
Partner - Pinheiro Neto Advogados
aspas-depoimentos

Dr. Alexandre Sion is focused on results and excellent customer service. With a systemic vision, he directs his processes and management in a coherent manner. I had the great pleasure of working with him at Vale, when we exchanged a lot of knowledge in everyday situations and in crises. I recommend this professional.

Vanessa Tavares
Institutional Relations at ValeInstitutional Relations at Vale
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a good lawyer and a good manager, who is making a valuable contribution to our company.

Vicente Galliez
Former Legal Director of Anglo American
aspas-depoimentos

I have had the satisfaction and privilege of consulting Alexandre and his firm for a number of years. In two different companies, we have faced some significant challenges and the mission has always been successfully accomplished. Alexandre is one of the few people who can brilliantly combine technical quality, a business partner profile, great relationships and the right amount of combativeness. He is a key strategic partner. Thank you for your partnership!

Zaíro de Pontes Netto
Legal - Vast Infraestrutura, ex-Ipiranga
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a great friend. He is an excellent professional and very determined in his goals. I’ve been following his professional life for 5 years now and I can say that his career is on the up and up. I recommend him highly!

Victor José Vidal M. Lima
Immunology Technical Consultant at AbbVie
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre Sion is one of the best professionals I have ever had the opportunity to work with. An in-depth student of environmental law, he has a mastery of the subject like few others, as well as an excellent strategic ability to handle high-profile cases.

Rodrigo Augusto Azevedo de Oliveira
Lawyer
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a distinguished professional with whom I would like to have the opportunity to work again. In addition to his mastery of his field, he has a unique ability to manage teams and a natural ability to positively influence his colleagues. Dynamic and with a strong systemic vision of the business, Alexandre exceeds expectations with his commitment and dedication.

Vitor Benevides, PMP®
Former Raízen Director
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a very experienced legal advisor with a large number of successful cases. I also admire him for working in various fields of law with a focus on the results to be achieved.

Rodrigo Braga
General Legal Manager at VLI Logística, formerly Vale
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is one of the most talented people I’ve ever met. He not only works hard, he also works smart. I strongly recommend him as the best lawyer.

Weifan Wang
Deputy General Manager at Innolux Corporation.
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is an excellent person to work with and who I totally trust. He is an important person to support businesses because his respect to others, knowledge and competence to analyze scenarios and give the correct answers.

Rodrigo Freitas
Mining Director - Mineração Taboca
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is an experienced professional, dedicated and confident in his actions. He acts with excellence, committing himself in a unique way to the objectives for which he was assigned, standing out for the seriousness and quality of his deliveries. In addition to the added value with the shared knowledge, his participation was fundamental to the success in obtaining the intended business results.

Rodrigo Ruggeri
New Business Development | Contracts, Projects and Portfolio | Real Estate | Infrastructure | Oil & Gas | Energy RecoveryNew Business Development | Contracts, Projects and Portfolio | Real Estate | Infrastructure | Oil & Gas | Energy Recovery
aspas-depoimentos

I strongly recommend Alexandre Sion as a competent legal manager.

Sérgio Botelho
Vice President of Mining - Armac
aspas-depoimentos

We have had the great honor of counting on the legal support of Sion Advogados in matters of Mining and Environmental Law. The commitment, dedication and competence with which the team deals with the issues is outstanding, and they always come up with innovative and feasible proposals for dealing with the issues they are asked to deal with. I recommend the services provided by this team.

Rogério Santana
Legal Manager at Ipiranga, ex-Petrobras
aspas-depoimentos

excellence in environmental law. Vast experience, acquired in the corporate world and law firms, which allows him the versatility to deal with diverse areas related to environmental law, with regulatory law, in general, being his great differential.

Solange Costa
Responsible for Vale's Global Mining Legal Department.
aspas-depoimentos

His dedication to his studies has resulted in a competent professional who is able to advise executives and companies on what a company really needs to know in order to plan its environmental management and organize preventive actions for environmental responsibility issues.

Thiago Pinto
Regional Manager for Corporate Security at NOV (National Oilwell Varco) in South America.
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre Sion is an extremely dedicated legal professional, committed to the desired results, who does not bend when faced with difficulties. At Anglo American, where I had the opportunity to work with Alexandre, I always noticed that he was not only a helpful person, but also an expert in the cases that arose, providing well-directed actions to defend the company.

Romulo Diniz
Corporate Security Manager at Anglo American - Ferro Brasil Business Unit
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre Sion has numerous professional qualities, and stands out for his commitment and technical quality, which few lawyers in this country possess.

Rosan Figueirêdo
Environment and Sustainable Development Manager, Occupational Health and Safety at GRUPO VDL | Mining Engineer
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a professional focused on results. He builds good relations in his workplace and he has great ability to find simple solutions to complex problems.

Zenaldo Oliveira
Global Logistics Operations Director - Vale
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre and the whole team are fantastic professionals with focus and knowledge, who exhaustively and tenaciously seek solutions to their clients’ problems in a concrete and objective manner, always with great ethics, strategic vision and common sense. Thank you for all these years together on this journey!

Roberto Emil karlburger junior
Executive Director - Zona da Mata Mineração, ex-BEMISA, ex-Anglo American, ex-MMX
aspas-depoimentos

The very high level of quality of the services provided to us so far, in which the punctuality, expertise, accessibility and availability of the firm’s professionals, as well as the influence that this firm has in the environmental community, have always deserved special mention.

Renato Diniz
Head of Legal Latam & Europe Aperam Group
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre Sion is a lawyer of great technical ability, easy rapport and an expert in supporting companies in complex cases. I am happy to recommend him.

Pedro Borrego
Director of HR, Safety, Sustainable Development and Corporate Affairs
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a very complete professional, with a strong technical background and a strategic, results-oriented vision. He always adds a lot to our projects and is a great professional to work with.

Mauro Barros
CEO Ore Ivestments, former director at Belo Sun Mining and Forbes Manhattan
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is an excellent professional, very competent, ethical, dedicated and always committed to exceeding expectations. Highly trained in environmental and contractual issues. An attentive, available professional with excellent interpersonal skills.

Raquel Delgado Passos
Former Legal Counsel at Gerdau.
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre Sion is an extremely qualified professional and a national reference on environmental issues. His firm is made up of top-level professionals who add value to clients’ businesses. Quality, management and strategy.

Rachel Starling
Remediation Head Principal at BHP, ex-Norsk Hydro and Renova Foundation
aspas-depoimentos

We hired Sion Advogados for an extremely sensitive issue, and with a great deal of skill and knowledge in the environmental mining sector, the result was just the start of a great partnership. Alexandre is a professional who gets involved in the issues together with his team, and has a vision of the company that is very important for developing excellent results. As well as extreme technical ability, he has a great interpersonal relationship that facilitates communication and support for companies.

Natalia Vilela Nunes Leite
Operational Lawyer at Ipiranga Produtos e Petróleo.
aspas-depoimentos

I’ve had the opportunity to be treated by Dr. Alexandre and his team on various occasions, always with a high level of excellence, professionalism, and attention to the client’s needs. He is a highly respected professional in the legal field, with extensive experience and recognized authority in the environmental field. His practice is guided by technical rigor, ethics, and a commitment to results.

Marina Tavares e Silva Pedersoli
Corporate Environmental and Mining Legal Manager
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre Sion is a professional I have had the pleasure and privilege of working with. First, together at Vale and then as a direct report at MMX and Anglo American. Leadership and the ability to manage people and strategic projects are natural abilities. He is an excellent professional and a person of integrity in his values and convictions, with intense experience in the law.

Thomas Jefferson Fowler
Lawyer
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is an outstanding student. During the time we studied together in Davis, California, I could realize that he is very disciplined, organized and is always looking for opportunities to learn and share knowledged with his colleagues. I should also mention his extra class behavior – he was perceived as a leader, organizing activities and always being available to help and cooperate with his classmates.

Tiago Achcar
VP & Assistant General Counsel, Americas at Rimini Street
aspas-depoimentos

I can most certainly recommend Alexandre as a highly skilled and efficient lawyer who has deep knowledge in international commercial law and especially environmental law issues. As a person Alexandre is very outgoing and social with good teamwork skills.

Timo Ylikantola
Lawyer
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a first-rate professional. I had the great opportunity to work with him at Vale, me in the maintenance department and him in the legal department. Whenever I turned to him, he was always able to give me answers in a short space of time, with a great deal of background information, so that we were always on the right side of the situation. He is ethical, proactive and keeps up to date.

Tulio Zandonaide Botelho
Technical and Commercial Director - TZB Engenharia e Consultoria
aspas-depoimentos

Highly focused and extremely dedicated, ALexandre is certainly one of the best in-house lawyers I have ever met. I strongly recommend him in the environmental law field.

Werner Grau
Partner - Pinheiro Neto Advogados
aspas-depoimentos

Dr. Alexandre Sion is focused on results and excellent customer service. With a systemic vision, he directs his processes and management in a coherent manner. I had the great pleasure of working with him at Vale, when we exchanged a lot of knowledge in everyday situations and in crises. I recommend this professional.

Vanessa Tavares
Institutional Relations at ValeInstitutional Relations at Vale
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a good lawyer and a good manager, who is making a valuable contribution to our company.

Vicente Galliez
Former Legal Director of Anglo American
aspas-depoimentos

I have had the satisfaction and privilege of consulting Alexandre and his firm for a number of years. In two different companies, we have faced some significant challenges and the mission has always been successfully accomplished. Alexandre is one of the few people who can brilliantly combine technical quality, a business partner profile, great relationships and the right amount of combativeness. He is a key strategic partner. Thank you for your partnership!

Zaíro de Pontes Netto
Legal - Vast Infraestrutura, ex-Ipiranga
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a great friend. He is an excellent professional and very determined in his goals. I’ve been following his professional life for 5 years now and I can say that his career is on the up and up. I recommend him highly!

Victor José Vidal M. Lima
Immunology Technical Consultant at AbbVie
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre Sion is one of the best professionals I have ever had the opportunity to work with. An in-depth student of environmental law, he has a mastery of the subject like few others, as well as an excellent strategic ability to handle high-profile cases.

Rodrigo Augusto Azevedo de Oliveira
Lawyer
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a distinguished professional with whom I would like to have the opportunity to work again. In addition to his mastery of his field, he has a unique ability to manage teams and a natural ability to positively influence his colleagues. Dynamic and with a strong systemic vision of the business, Alexandre exceeds expectations with his commitment and dedication.

Vitor Benevides, PMP®
Former Raízen Director
aspas-depoimentos

Alexandre is a very experienced legal advisor with a large number of successful cases. I also admire him for working in various fields of law with a focus on the results to be achieved.

Rodrigo Braga
General Legal Manager at VLI Logística, formerly Vale
aspas-depoimentos

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