Attorney at law, graduated in 1981 at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) , where he obtained his Masters Degree with a dissertation entitled “Disregard of legal entity” (1985), his Doctorate with the thesis “Law and Power” (1991), and his livre docência (similar to post- PhD) with the thesis “The Entrepreneur and consumer rights” (1993).

Prof. Dr. Fábio Ulhoa Coelho is a Full Professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, where he has been lecturing since 1982, in the disciplines of Philosophy of Law, Commercial and Corporate Law. Currently, he dedicates his time to post-graduate programs and courses where he holds the position of Coordinator of Commercial Law in Masters and Doctorate programs and the Corporate Law Specialization Course of PUC-SP. He lectured in the post-graduate program at the Universidade Mackenzie (from 1991 to 1994) and at the Law School of Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (from 1983 to 1985). He is Honourable Professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie Law School.

He has been delivering lectures in Brazil and abroad.

He is the author of many important juridical works, amongst which stand out “Commercial Law Course” in three volumes, "Commercial Law Manual”, " Annotated Commercial Code and Complementary Statutes”, and “Private Law Course” (which is intended to have a total of five volumes), “Disregard of legal entity”, “Brazilian Antitrust Law”, and “The Entrepreneur and consumer rights”. He is also the author of chapters in collective works such as “Current Aspects of the Financial and Capital Market Law”, published in two volumes, and “The Reform of Business Corporate Law ”. He has also published several articles in specialized magazines and newspapers.

Since 1992, he has been a member of the Société de Legislatión Comparée, founded in 1869, with its headquarters in Paris. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Comercial Comparado Biblioteca Tullio Ascareli (Brazilian Institute of Comparative Commercial Law and the Tullio Ascarelli Library ), which are part of the Department of Commercial Law at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Law School. He is the vice-president of the Instituto Brasileiro de Direito do Seguro – IBDS (Brazilian Institute of Insurance Law –IBDS) .