There are those who practise the law, and those who reimagine what it can be. Luiza Castro Rey belongs firmly to the second kind. Trained at PUC-Rio in Brazil and holding a Master's in International and Commercial Law from the University of Lisbon, her formation has always been wider than any single institution could contain. Over the course of her career, she has worked in and across Europe, North and South America — accumulating not merely experience, but understanding. What distinguishes Luiza is a rare combination: the rigour of critical thinking alongside a genuine, disarming empathy. She reads complexity with precision — and reads people with care. It is this duality that has made her, time and again, not just a legal adviser but a trusted architect of growth.

In 2022, alongside four partners who shared her conviction, she co-founded FiO Legal — a firm born from the belief that law is not merely a companion to the future, but one of its authors. Their mission is as clear as it is ambitious: to make legal support genuinely accessible to all, through a Legal as a Service model that meets businesses wherever they are, at every stage of what they are building.

As Head of Corporate & Web3, she leads a team navigating some of the most consequential legal terrain of our time — digital assets, emerging regulation, and the architectures that will define how business operates in the decades ahead.

A speaker, a mediator, and a builder — Luiza Castro Rey is the kind of leader who does not wait for transformation to arrive. She is already there.