Maria Luiza Jobim

Maria Luiza Jobim, an attorney with Maia Yoshiyasu Advogados (MYLaw) in São Paulo, has been named Gambling Lawyer of the Year in Brazil at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The recognition arrives at a pivotal moment for the Brazilian gaming and betting industry, as the country moves from a long period of legal uncertainty towards a regulated commercial framework, and it reflects Ms Jobim's emergence as one of the specialist voices guiding operators, investors and advisers through that transition.

Maia Yoshiyasu Advogados is a São Paulo firm that describes itself as offering personalised, results-focused services built on a close understanding of its clients' business strategies and needs. Gaming and gambling law is one of the firm's most prominent specialisms, sitting alongside a full corporate offering that spans internet and technology, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, tax, real estate, labour, intellectual property, litigation and dispute resolution, public law and regulation, data privacy and protection, and wealth planning. The firm is recognised internationally for the quality of its service and holds rankings among leading practices in its core areas, giving Ms Jobim a broad institutional platform from which to advise on complex, cross-disciplinary gaming matters.

Within that practice Ms Jobim has established a particular reputation in the gaming sector, where the firm's technology and gaming team is internationally recognised as a leader in the Brazilian market. The team is highly experienced in sports betting matters, advising on regulatory compliance and representing clients, including casino operators and sports-betting companies, in judicial and administrative disputes. As Brazil has developed its rules for fixed-odds betting and online gaming, this combination of regulatory counsel and contentious capability has become increasingly valuable to businesses seeking to enter or expand within the market with confidence.

Ms Jobim is also a recognised author and commentator on the sector. She has contributed the Brazil chapter to international gaming publications, writing on the regulation of commercial gambling in Brazil, and has authored analysis examining the complexities and idiosyncrasies of the country's evolving regime. Her scholarship, which considers how past prohibitions inform present and future policy, demonstrates the depth of her engagement with the subject and has helped to explain the Brazilian position to an international audience of operators and advisers watching one of the world's most significant emerging gaming markets.

Bringing together regulatory advisory work, dispute resolution and thought leadership, Ms Jobim offers clients a rounded perspective on a sector defined by rapid change and intense scrutiny. Her work supports operators and investors navigating licensing, compliance and enforcement questions at a time when the ground rules are still being written. The 2024 Corporate INTL Global Award recognises both her individual expertise and her contribution to the maturing of gaming law in Brazil, and confirms her place among the practitioners shaping how the industry is regulated and understood in the country.