Carlos Ayres is an attorney with the law firm Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados in São Paulo, Brazil. He focuses on anti-corruption and compliance issues, with a particular emphasis on Brazil and other regions of Latin America. Mr. Ayres co-chairs the Anti-Corruption and Compliance Committee of IBRADEMP (The Brazilian Institute of Business Law) and teaches FCPA and Compliance as a visiting professor at the Post-Graduate Program of GVLaw, School of Law, in São Paulo. He is also a visiting professor at the Post-Graduate Program in Risk Management and Fraud Prevention of FIA (Fundação Instituto de Administração) Business School in São Paulo. Mr. Ayres has interned at the enforcement division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC and has worked at the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie. He received his law degree from PUC – São Paulo and his masters in Comparative Law from University of Florida.