Ronald Levinsohn

Brazilian businessman (1935–2020)

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Ronald Guimarães Levinsohn (Rio Grande, October 9, 1935 – Rio de Janeiro, January 27, 2020) was a prominent Brazilian businessman and administrator.

Born in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the "glorious city" of Rio Grande. Son to David Isidore Levinsohn and Maria Nilza Guimarães Levinsohn. Husband to Maria Henriqueta Vieira Levinsohn. Ronald was a Brazilian visionary and pioneer in the real estate and agribusiness sector. One of Brazil's most prominent real estate developers, he was responsible for the advancement of several regions. His spirit and legacy lives on.

In 1975, he partnered with Rodman Rockefeller (son of Nelson Rockefeller) in the Cidade Vista Verde project, in the city of São José dos Campos, designed to be a high-class neighborhood, without walls and with a high degree of afforestation. Today, it is a neighborhood near Petrobras’ refinery in São José dos Campos. Ronald Levinsohn purchased the land where the Jardim Colinas condominium, Colinas Shopping, and Jardim do Golfe, a subdivision intended for the upper class, are now located.

He was the owner of the Delfin Group, which held the largest savings account portfolio in Brazil during the 1980s, with 3.5 million depositors. The Central Bank of Brazil published the official act of closing the extrajudicial liquidation of the Delfin Group in the Diário Oficial da União on November 22, 1991. Additionally, in 2006, the Superior Court of Justice recognized that the transfer of land to the National Housing Bank (BNH) was conducted legally and at a fair price.

Ronald Levinsohn was also the former controller of the third-largest private university in Rio de Janeiro, the Centro Universitário da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro (UniverCidade), which had 35,000 students.

Ronald Levinsohn was the administrator of Colina Paulista, a holding company with businesses in civil construction and agriculture. He owned several farms in the Barreiras region, in western Bahia, with an area equivalent to fourteen times the size of the city of Salvador. The Delfin case was classified by the Central Bank of Brazil as fraud; however, Ronald Levinsohn was acquitted of the charges by the 13th Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro on February 10, 1993, in case No. 8692165/6370, in which the Public Prosecutor's Office itself recommended acquittal.

Ronald Levinsohn is the father of lawyers Claudia Vieira Levinsohn and Priscilla Vieira Levinsohn.

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