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Richard S. Aldrich Jr. spent his career as an international attorney focused on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private financings for companies and financial advisors in Brazil and the United States. He began his legal career as an associate at Shearman & Sterling before being seconded to Citibank as general counsel for its the Middle East/Africa Division (1978 to 1980).

Mr. Aldrich became a partner at Shearman & Sterling in 1982 and headed its Hong Kong office from 1984 to 1987. In 1987, he returned to Shearman & Sterling’s New York office, where he represented the Bank Advisory Committee of Brazil in the country’s $120 billion foreign debt restructuring from 1987 to 1994. In 1992, he represented the Brazilian company Aracruz Celulose in the first SEC-registered, NYSE-listed initial public offering of a Brazilian company. Mr. Aldrich is an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University. In addition to IESC, he serves on the advisory board of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce and was its president from 2005 to 2008.