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Founded in 2001, Almeida Advogados is an M&A focused firm that has since branched into other practice areas. It operates out of five offices located in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and Recife. M&A is an important practice area for the firm. It advises local and international clients on joint ventures, buy-and-sale acquisitions and mergers. Some of its sector strengths include telecommunications, technology, energy, environment, mining, financial services and construction. The firm's collaborative practices are technologically integrated to provide efficient services to its clients. Of the firm's practices, its capital markets expertise is noteworthy.
Araújo & Policastro, founded in 1962, is in São Paulo and is known for its work in the corporate practice area. It is part of Denton’s NextLaw Referral Network, giving the firm an international presence. In the corporate law sphere, the firm specializes in M&A transactions and often represents buyers and sellers. Although it works across a wide variety of industries, it is especially prevalent in agribusiness, technology and life sciences.
Key clients
The firm’s key clients include Amphenol Corporation, Cabot Corporation, Meritor, Metalsa and Penumbra.
Testimonials
“The team is very intelligent and creative” (Restructuring client)
Founded in 2000, Araúz Advogados has grown to eight locations across Brazil in: Curitiba, Toledo, Londrina, Maringá, São Paulo, Sinop, Cruz Alta and Itajaí. The firm is known for its corporate work, but also places an emphasis on its social impact and agribusiness work.
Focusses / specialisms
In transactional work the firm has a focus on corporate deals and in M&A mostly represents strategic buyers. Industries the team specialise include agribusiness, aviation, health and real estate.
Key clients
Key clients include C.Vale, Pluma Agroavícola, Paynow do Brasil, Master Vigilância Especializada, Helisul Táxi Aéreo, Bello Alimentos and Kepler Weber.
Established in 2004, Baptista Luz Advogados is a growing law firm with a focus in corporate law. The firm has five offices, with locations in Sao Paulo, Florianopolis, Londrina, Porto Alegre, and Miami, Florida. The firm is known for their work with venture capital and M&A. The team advises on corporate structuring, joint-ventures and operational agreements. The M&A team advises both buyers and sellers in transactions.
Barcellos Tucunduva Advogados was founded in 1954 and has offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasília. The firm’s banking practice has been at the forefront of technology and electronic payments for over 14 years, navigating the market's evolution from regulatory, legislative, and technological perspectives. Led by Giancarlllo Melito, who has been at the firm for over 20 years, they offer comprehensive client support, from operational modeling to regulatory compliance, and obtaining necessary authorizations. The firm’s expertise spans various payment systems, advising clients on digital wallets, credit cards, and international payment facilitation. The team is committed to guiding clients through the complexities of the payment industry, ensuring seamless and compliant operations.
Founded in 2018, Bastos Bari Vilela Zugman Advogados is young and highly regarded Brazilian firm based in Såo Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm has a reputable M&A team that specializes in the energy sector as well as in private equity.
Key clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include Modularis, Starpay, Swipe, FRAM Capital, Vila Energia, Classy Brands, Ujay Capital and Coupa Software.
Established in 2020, Benetti & Giammarino Advogados is an upcoming firm led by talented partners with decades of experience between them. The firm’s founding partner is Eduardo Benetti.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm is particularly experienced in advising on corporate matters and M&A transactions. It is also adept in banking and finance as well as private equity work. Diverse industries such as automotive, consumer goods, media, technology and telecommunications all fall under the firm’s catalogue of specialties.
Key clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include Almaviva Group, Frango Gonzalez Group, Habitat Capital Partners, Navve Brand Publishers, Oazi Sports, Pieracciani Group and Red Ventures.
Bichara Advogados was founded in 2001. The firm has five offices in Brazil, with locations in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Belo Horizonte and Vitória. The corporate law department is known for its work in providing day-to-day assistance, structuring investments for foreign clients to invest in Brazilian companies, debt structuring and regulatory advice. M&A work at the firm is active in areas like joint ventures and debt acquisition and restructuring. The project development team is primarily focused on environmental work. The department is segmented into a variety of different focuses, including energy, telecommunication, oil and gas, transportation, infrastructure, mining and more.
Founded in 2017, Bissolatti Advogados is a contemporary Brazilian firm based in Såo Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
Bissolatti Advogados is unique due to its specialization in restructuring and insolvency, advising clients on all sides of the practice area including creditors, debtors, investors and insolvency parties.
Key clients
A few of the firm’s notable clients include Copel Rede Conforto, Menegotti Máquinas, Menegotti Indústria and Vibrasil Artefatos.
Barbosa Müssnich Aragão, or BMA, was founded in 1995 and has since become a highly regarded firm in the financial and corporate practice areas. Team members are spread out across three offices: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília. The firm’s international focus is represented through their China and French desks. The firm is strong across all of their financial and corporate practice areas, but it is perhaps most highly regarded in M&A, where the team advises buyers and sellers alike.
Highlights
BMA Advogados advised on two major transactions in Brazil during 2024. The firm represented Raízen Energia in a revolving loan facility arranged by BNP Paribas, providing strategic financing to support Raízen’s operations and growth. The transaction involved complex cross-border structuring with Luxembourg-based borrower Raízen Fuels Finance, showcasing BMA’s expertise in international finance. Additionally, BMA advised Grupo de Moda SOMA on its merger with Arezzo&Co, creating AZZAS 2154—a new fashion powerhouse with four business units spanning footwear, apparel, and lifestyle brands. This transformative deal required intricate governance design and integration planning, positioning the combined entity for significant market expansion and operational synergies.
Key clients
Americanas, Banco BTG Pactual, Klabin, Grupo de Moda Soma, Positivo Tecnologia, Prisma Capital, Raízen Energia and Zamp
Testimonials
“The firm’s experience with the transaction and availability were what we liked the most.” (Capital markets client)
“The firm had expertise and was always available. They are very thoughtful and business oriented. Partner Sergio Savi is exceptional.” (Restructuring client)
Established in 1999, Bocater Camargo Costa & Silva Rodrigues Advogados is a Brazilian firm that frequently engages in domestic and international transactions. The firm specializes in corporate and M&A practice, advising clients in different sectors such as financial services, energy, oil and gas, mining and technology. It is especially capable in matters that require the authorization of Brazilian public authorities and agencies.
Founded in 2021, Bronstein Zilberberg Chueiri & Potenza, a premier and versatile Brazilian firm located in Såo Paulo, is quickly rising through the ranks and establishing itself as a powerful force in the Brazilian market. The firm helps companies to navigate the complex legal matters that affect them throughout the many stages of their development. Drawing on their top tier level of expertise, the firm consistently advises on the most complex transactions in M&A, private equity and investment funds. This success has earned them a reputation for representing investors and sellers in landmark Brazilian transactions.
Founded in 2018, Borba, Simões Barbosa, Bessone, Cristofaro, or BSBC is a law firm specializing in transactional work and strategic litigation. It is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm specializes in business deals and strategic litigation. The team advises on negotiation of partnerships, establishing joint ventures and other transactions. The team has worked on deals in mining, retail, hotel, education, entertainment and healthcare.
Key clients
Key clients for the firm include Anglo American Group, Anglo Pacific Group, Mineração Tanagra and Gustavo Simões Barbosa.
Client feedback: 31st edition (2020/2021)
Project development : Mining
"They helped me to correct some agreement items and reinforced my position."
Founded in 1981, Campos Mello is a full-service law firm recognized for its work in business and financial law. The firm is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro and has offices in Sao Paolo and Brasilia. The firm is active in banking, capital markets, M&A, private equity, project finance and project development.
Highlights
In M&A, the firm's buyer side work included advising clients like Statkraft on significant cross-border acquisitions in the renewable energy sector. These acquisitions were subject to antitrust, CADE and other regulatory approval.
The firm’s M&A practice also worked alongside the capital markets team to advise the public company Maha Energy AB in its business combination with DBO 2.0. This was a complex transaction in the highly regulated oil and gas sector and required an “Extraordinary General Meeting” for Maha to resolve necessary matters related to the merger.
Key clients
Statkraft, Eneva, GE Healthcare, Localiza, Globant, Barzan Holdings and the B3 are among the firm’s key clients.
Testimonials
“The firm has extensive knowledge and responds quickly.” (Financial services regulatory client)
Brazilian boutique Candido Martins was founded in 2010 and maintains an office in São Paulo. The firm has a focus on M&A and is active in debt capital markets work. The banking and capital markets teams work across numerous industries including agribusiness, real estate and energy, mainly representing middle market issuers. It is active in investment funds, advising clients on receivables structuring and acquisitions. Capital markets work is stronger and more focused in debt than equity. The M&A team advises strategic and private equity buyers and sellers on deals in industries such as agribusiness, technology, consumer goods and services and logistics.
Founded in 1953, Castro Barros Sobral Gomes is a full-service firm with branches located in Brasília, São Paulo, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm frequently has its hands in complex M&A transactions as well as corporate reorganizations in various sectors such as healthcare, insurance, retail, transportation, agribusiness, fintech and financial services. It specializes in advising domestic and international clients on the buyer side.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
M&A
“Technical knowledge.”
Financial restructuring
“They are reliable lawyers, that work as a team with the client, with strong background in M&A and finance restructuring.”
Cescon Barrieu is a nationally recognized Brazilian firm with five offices located in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Brasília and Salvador. The firm’s strengths lie in M&A, debt capital markets and project finance. The banking and finance and capital markets teams have developed strong relationships with international banks, and so most of the banking and project finance transactions are on the lender side. The debt and equity capital markets team focuses on the technology and energy industries, working with both issuers and underwriters. The project development team advises developers in all industries, but is particularly active in energy, infrastructure and oil and gas projects.
Founded in 2000, Chalfin Goldberg Vainboim Advogados is a standout firmwith branches in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Vitória and Curitiba.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm delivers top quality services to clients regarding corporate law matters and M&A transactions. The firm is also skilled in matters concerning reorganization and bankruptcy.
Key Clients
The firm’s key clients include Nestlé Group, Prudential Group, Onivino Comércio de Vinhos, Mamma Jamma Restaurantes and Porto Seguro Investimentos.
Founded in 1992, CMARTINS Advogados is a mature firm with a wide range of impact. It has offices located in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Bahia.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm is an innovator in the banking sector, and it has specialized teams for various practice areas to ensure quality work.
Key Clients
The firm’s key clients include Itaú Unibanco, Banco Itaú Consignado, Banco Carrefour, Federal Savings Bank, Cetelem Bank, Sky Brazil Services, Invepar Group, Speech Windsor Domes and Telefónica Brazil.
Founded in 2007, Coelho & Dalle is a well-developed firm with great domestic and abroad experience. The firm has offices in São Paulo, Recife and Fortaleza.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm is skilled in corporate reorganizations as well as M&A transactions on the buyer and seller side. It has done excellent work in the healthcare, insurance, transportation, construction, chemical and energy industries.
Key Clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include Vinci Partners, Ambipar Group, ProInfusion, Pixxel, Hapvida, Drogafonte, Drumattos, Valutia Capital, Rio Ave Group, LOS Group, Koblitz Energia, Colorado Group and SimCo.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
M&A
“I believe that the knowledge of our market associated with the great expertise in contracts and negotiation has been important in helping us to conduct our business”
Coelho Advogados is a well-known boutique law firm created in 1995. The firm has offices located in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other cities throughout Brazil. Focused on excellence, the firm is committed to providing quality service to their clients and leverages their vast experience, solving intricate matters using the most innovative methods. Capital markets is the firm’s strong suit and it has special expertise on the debt side. The capital markets team also handles complex securitizations, investment funds and financial structures in the real estate and agribusiness sectors.
Coimbra & Chaves Sociedade de Advogados was established in 2011. The firm focuses on corporate clients. The firm has three offices in Brazil located in Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo and Brasilia. The firm is a founding member of the ALAE alliance of law firms.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A team at the firm advises on a wide variety of matters and services including acquisitions, sales, joint-ventures, strategic partnerships and debt equity transactions.
Key clients
Key clients for the firm include Zelo Group, Super Nosso Group, and Engeform Engenharia.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
Project Development: Mining
"They understand TAKRAF's legal practices and perform comments and recommendations to discuss with customers before signing any contract. My understanding is that they do well in the T&C verifications.”
M&A
“CCBA assisted the M&A process diligently and with high quality.”
CQSFV is a prominent firm with its Brazilian offices located in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and BrasÍlia. It also maintains international offices in Lisbon, Bogotá, , Madrid, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Santiago and Mexico City.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm has a unique specialty for transactions in the entertainment industry.
Key Clients
Many of the firm’s key clients are media companies such as Viacom Network Brazil, The Walt Disney Company, Globosat Channels, Globo TV, HBO Latin America, Warner Channel, MGM Distribution, CNN Brasil and Discovery Networks Brazil, Warner Music, Opus Entertainment and the Brazilian Music Collecting Society.
Founded in 2010, CSMV Advogados is a renowned and experienced firm located in São Paulo.The firm specializes in M&A work, advising buyers and sellers as well as investors and investees. The firm has diversified expertise when it comes to transaction industries. It has worked in the automotive industry, food and beverage, fintech, mining, cryptocurrency, retail and sports, particularly the football industry.
Da Fonte Advogados established its first office in Recife in the year 2000. The full-service firm now has additional offices in Brasília and São Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
Da Fonte Advogados focuses on complex M&A transactions, representing investors in the infrastructure, energy and healthcare sectors. The firm also has exceptional skills in corporate restructuring matters.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
M&A
“They have a deep knowledge in M&A and all the aspects involved in an operation like that”
“Legal certainty, agility, practicality"
With offices in Brasília and São Paulo, Dal Pozzo Advogados has served as a noteworthy legal firm for the last two decades.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm specializes in public law, specifically infrastructure law, stewarding a strong project development practice. Within infrastructure law, the firm has a diversified reserve of expertise in sectors such as education, healthcare, airports, railways, roads and highways, telecommunications, sanitation, waste management and energy.
Some of the firm’s key clients include Viarondon Concessionário de Rodovia, Concessionária Auto Raposo Tavares, Concessionária Rota das Bandeiras, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Facebook Serviços Online do Brasil, Rumo Malha Norte, Hydrosystem, Grupo Comport and Trail Infraestrutura.
Located in São Paulo, Daló e Tognotti Advogados is a well-recognized Brazilian law firm that was founded in 2019. The firm has seen significant growth since its inception. The capital markets and real estate finance practices are the pride of the firm. It specializes in structuring publicly offered securities as well as setting up investment funds in various sectors, but especially in the real estate industry.
Established in the 1960s, Davis Polk & Wardwell is a world class firm with a global network. In Brazil, the firm has one office in São Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm has a strong M&A team that advises clients domestically and internationally.
Key Clients
The firm has many key clients such as Banco Santander Brasil, Bavaria, Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, Cosan, Fibria Celulose, Gafisa, Odebrecht, Petrobras, Via Varejo and Vivo Participacões.
Dcom Advogados is a new Brazilain law firm based in Belo Horizonte.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm’s M&A team is distinguished due to its skill in the technology sector.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
Investment funds: Retail funds
“Highly available, capability of being in our shoes for taking decisions and legal expertise”
M&A
“Technical capacity, negotiation skills, end-to-end support”
Founded in 2011, De Luca, Derenusson, Schuttoff e Azevedo Advogado is a firm providing a wide variety of services, based in Sao Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A group at the firm is experienced in both buyer side and seller side transactions. It assists both foreign and local clients. Areas of work include joint ventures, private equity and share acquisitions.
Established in 1948, Demarest is one of the largest firms in Latin America and boasts four Brazilian offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and Campinas, as well as an international branch in New York. It has expertise in dozens of industries including agribusiness, aviation, automotive, maritime, mining, real estate, sports and entertainment, telecommunications, media and technology. The firm is also a member of LexMundi, Interlex Global Law Firm Network and Employment Law Alliance among others. The firm works across financial and corporate and project development matters.
Highlights
Demarest Advogados advised on two landmark transactions in Brazil during 2024. The firm represented Procaps Group in its debt restructuring with lenders including BTG Pactual, Bancolombia, and Davivienda, extending maturities and adjusting covenants to strengthen liquidity. This complex, multi-jurisdictional deal supports Procaps’ financial recovery and growth across Latin America. Additionally, Demarest advised on SABESP’s historic global follow-on offering of 220.47 million shares, including ADRs, under CVM Resolution 160 and the U.S. Securities Act. The transaction featured a pioneering priority tranche for a cornerstone investor and achieved record institutional demand—the largest offering in Brazil’s sanitation sector and globally in the water industry. These deals underscore Demarest’s expertise in capital markets and cross-border finance.
Key clients
Banco Honda, Banco Hyundai, Hyundai Motor Brasil, Latam Airlines, Procaps Group, SABESP, Tam Linhas Aéreas and Yamaha Motor do Brasil
Testimonials
“Demarest is great for its dedication, speed and the know-how of the Capital Markets team.” (Capital markets client)
“My main contact at Demarest is Cristina Tomiyama, we have worked together on several transactions over the years and Cris joined Demarest in the beginning of this year. Cris is a fantastic partner, with extensive expertise in capital markets having worked on many landmark deals in Brazil.” (Capital markets client)
“Excellent law firm, very professional and responsive. Great knowledge from partners with great involvement on the matter. Particularly Guilherme Fontes Bechara.” (Financial Restructuring client)
“Demarest delivers outstanding legal services in mergers and acquisitions, consistently demonstrating excellence in every aspect of the process. Their deep technical expertise, combined with a thorough and methodical approach, ensures that each transaction is carefully structured and executed with precision.” (M&A client)
“The firm had attention to detail and extreme care in all advisory they made for our company and personnel.” (Restructuring client)
“Quick and high-quality return on issues at hand, providing creative solutions to solve legal and operational hurdles in the transaction.” (Restructuring client)
“Demarest's restructuring & insolvency team has deep knowledge of cross-border insolvency matters. Guilherme Bechara, partner, is one of the greatest insolvency experts in Brazil.” (Restructuring client)
Located in São Paulo, Dias Carneiro is a full-service firm founded in 2002. Some of the firm’s focuses and specialisms are banking, M&A and project development. The banking team represents both borrowers and lenders in many types of transactions, most notably export prepayments and credit facilities. The M&A team specializes in financial services, energy and technology sector transactions for both strategic buyers and sellers. The projects team represents borrowers, lenders, developers and sponsors on projects in the energy, sanitation, pulp and paper, mining and oil and gas industries.
Highlights
Dias Carneiro Advogados advised on high-profile transactions in Brazil during 2024. The firm represented Mahle Metal Leve in acquiring 100% of two subsidiaries from its controlling shareholder, a cross-border related-party transaction between Brazil and Germany. The deal followed CVM Guidance Opinion No. 35, with an Independent Committee ensuring transparency and minority shareholder protection—setting a benchmark for governance in Brazilian capital markets.
Additionally, Dias Carneiro advised IDB Invest on amendments to the financing structure of Project Mendubim, a major renewable energy initiative. The firm negotiated updates to security agreements, including fiduciary assignments and conditional usufruct instruments, reinforcing lender protections and maintaining project bankability. These transactions highlight Dias Carneiro’s expertise in complex M&A and structured finance.
Key clients
Banco Pactual, Bocaina Capital, IDB Invest, IFC, Mahle and Societe Generale Brasil
Testimonials
“Gustavo Junqueira is knowledgeable about our internal practices and procedures, as well as market practice. He’s also responsive.” (Banking client)
“Artur Andrezo is a very present lawyer — always available, quick to respond, and consistently reliable in the support provided.” (M&A client)
Founded in 2018 in São Paulo, Donelli, Nicolai e Zenid Advogados is a relatively new Brazilian boutique.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm is active in M&A transactions on both the buyer and the seller side. Their industry experience is diverse but is especially notable in the real estate and power industries.
Research period review: 31st edition (2020/2021)
The M&A team at the firm advised on sell side transactions over the research period. Health care stood out as an active sector.
During the research period the firm welcomed partner Suzana Camarão Cencin Castelnau from Machado Associados in November 2020.
Partner Vitor Martins left the firm in April 2020.
Client feedback: 31st edition (2020/2021)
Asset finance
"Even if they were not specialised in investments funds and other related areas, they had a good network of people with an immense sense of organisation and knowledge that fostered the comprehension and resolution of complex points. Additionally, the accuracy of information provided has contributed to our decision-making process in the way all guidelines have been outlined in a clear and outstanding manner."
M&A
"Impartiality. Clarity. Quickness in the process."
Project development
"Very responsive and detailed-oriented."
Restructuring
"Creative solutions for unique situations and challenges. Out of the box approach while maintaining highest level of professionalism and integrity. Prompt and diligent."
"Knowledge, professionalism, teamwork."
Restructuring : Corporate
"The personalised service of the team was essential. The partners really get involved in the day-by-day work, bringing a lot of security to the client."
"Very responsive, accurate legal information, flexible on fees, negotiation."
Restructuring and insolvency
"Pragmatic/commercial approach - clear explanations to clients of a complicated area of law. Efficient and timely."
Founded in 2018 in São Paulo, Donelli, Nicolai e Zenid Advogados is a relatively new Brazilian boutique.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm is most active in the M&A practice, working with both the buyer and sellers. Their industry experience is diverse but is especially notable in the real estate and power industries. The firm is also active in project development and restructuring and insolvency.
Key clients
Key clients of the firm include Minercacão,NFP Automotive, Renal Vida Group, Texuna Technologies and World Metals & Alloys.
Research period review: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
The firm was active in corporate and M&A, project development and restructuring and insolvency during the research period.
The M&A team and the restructuring and insolvency team worked on transactions in the entertainment, mining and manufacturing sectors.
The project development team advised transactions exclusively in the construction and materials industry. The firm advised concessionaires and developers in domestic projects.
Deal highlights: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
Dev Minercacão $135 million financial restructuring
Maze Group R$20 million restructuring
Micromar Indústria e Comércio R$20 million restructuring
Formed in 2017, Duarte Garcia, Serra Neto e Terra Advogados is a relatively new firm, but has worked on an impressive number of deals. The M&A group at the firm provides full M&A service, with expertise in corporate tax, assistance with foreign investments and cross border deals. Most of their deals are focused on the real estate and pharmaceutical industries. The project development team at the firm specializes in public law, providing consultancy and litigation for clients participating in public bids, negotiations for public contracts, PPPs and more. Much of the work is centered on highways, subways, sanitation, energy and more.
Eichenberg, Lobato, Abreu & Advogados Associados, founded in 1992, is a full-service Brazilian law firm renowned for its personalized and effective legal services. With over 80 professionals, the firm operates from five locations: Porto Alegre, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Balneário Camboriú, and Uruguaiana. The firm excels through its specialized attorneys who integrate diverse legal knowledge to deliver client results. They deeply understand each client's business, enabling tailored solutions. The firm’s equity capital markets and M&A teams stand out the most. The capital markets work included advising on various investment funds. The M&A team works on complex shareholder agreements and joint ventures.
Constantly growing since 1999, FASV Advogados is a noteworthy firm located in São Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm specializes in restructuring and insolvency, advising investors and insolvency parties.
Key Clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include Banco BTG Pactual, Terra Forte Café, Grupo Ecovix, Grupo Engevix and Grupo Inepar.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
M&A
“FASV lawyers are very skilled professionals and are used to provide solutions for all stake holders.”
Insolvency
“The attorneys have extensive knowledge in bankruptcy matters and are very proactive.”
Felsberg Advogados was founded in 1970. It is a full-service firm and has three locations, in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia. The firm is a member of the independent law firm networks Meritas and Legalink. The M&A group at the firm focuses on a range of services including corporate reorganization, conversion of debt into equity, M&A transactions and joint ventures. The project development team has worked on many innovative projects, including a bi-national power plant, planning for infrastructure projects and bids for PPPs.
Established in 2005, Ferro Castro Neves Daltro & Gomide is a remarkable law firm with offices in Rio de Janeiro, Brasília and São Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm has an esteemed reputation for its restructuring and insolvency practice. Representing clients such as creditors, debtors, investors and judicial trustees makes it a firm that is familiar with all sides of this practice.
Key Clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include Enseada Indústria Naval, Canvas Capital, Postalis, Committee of Unsecured Creditors, RK Partners and Novero Investimentos.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
Financial restructuring
“Great knowledge of mediation process
Excellent relationship with legal advisors of creditors
Innovative ideas to solve problems
Very agile in responding for deliverables.”
“They have high skilled team of lawyers, with deep experience and knowledge regarding its business expertise.”
Established in 2003, FM/Derraik is a sophisticated Brazilian firm located in São Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm has maintained a excellent track record advising technology startups as well as venture capital and private equity firms. It is particularly strong in the M&A practice area, frequently representing domestic and international companies.
Key Clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include Astella Investimentos, Raia Drogasil RD Station, VIA, Caravela Capital, BR Malls, Faber Castell, Qualcomm Ventures, Scale-Up Ventures, Mercado Libre and Mercado Libre Fund, Domo Invest and Jera Capital.
FAS Advogados is a contemporary Brazilian law firm founded in 2014 and known for its dynamic service structure and global outlook. Offering comprehensive legal solutions across various industries, the firm is driven by a diverse team passionate about making a positive impact. The capital markets team at the firm is renowned for their technical expertise, tailored services and innovative approach. The team also excels in investment fund structuring, public and private securities offers, and regulatory compliance. Their recent collaboration with CMS, a global law firm, enhances our international presence and underscores our commitment to excellence and innovation in legal services.
Fraga, Bekierman & Cristiano Advogados was established in 1993. The firm works with local and international clients. It has two offices, with locations in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A group has advised clients in a variety of industry, including energy, mining construction, shipping and tech. The team advises on private equity investments corporate reorganizations, due diligence and more.
Key clients
Clients for the firm include, Technogym, Beldi Group, IHI do Brasil Representações, Swire Oilfield Services and TomTom Brasil.
Established in 2021, Franco Leutewiler Henriques Advogados is a fresh face in the crowd of Brazilian legal firms. Its main office is in São Paulo. The firm has additional offices in Campo Grande, Recife and New York City. The firm has noteworthy banking, debt capital markets and M&A practices. The banking and debt capital markets teams participate in project financing on the among other kinds, typically advising banks on the lender side. The M&A team is strong in health, agribusiness, real estate and financial services, working especially well with investors in those industries.
FTA Advogados is a vastly experienced firm located in São Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
Corporate and M&A is an area of expertise for this firm. The firm is also strong in restructuring and insolvency work.
Key Clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include Jefferies, Construtora Coesa, OAS Investments, OAS Finance Limited and Coesa Engenharia.
Founded in 1990, Gaia Silva Gaede Advogados is a firm that stands out for its business law work. It has five locations, with offices in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Curitiba and Belo Horizonte.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A group works on a wide array of aspects of corporate restructuring, and has a focus on corporate governance, M&A and planning and implementation of corporate structure.
Key clients
Key clients for the firm include Odebrecht, Camargo Correa, Tecnisa, Prologis, CSHG Renda Urbana and Unimed-Rio Cooperativa de Trabalho Médico do Rio de Janeiro.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
M&A
“Experienced and available team; valuable insights when negotiating critical SPA clauses.”
Banking and finance
"The Gaia team gave us fast and applicable answers. They work with an easy way of communication that makes their answers understandable to the public."
Established in 2018, Gotlib Massara Rocha Advogados is a boutique law firm located in Belo Horizonte.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm has strong M&A, capital markets, venture capital, private equity and project finance practices. Most of the firm’s activity is focused on energy, real estate, education, health, agribusiness, construction, infrastructure and information IT.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
Private equity
“Competence, knowledge, network, punctuality, reliability.”
Investment funds
“They are very straight, focused on customer. All points we request they address properly.
In our perspective, less is more in terms of regulation, our investor demands clarity and simplicity. We believe GMR Advogados deliver kind of service.”
Guimarães & Vieira de Mello Advogados, GVM, was founded in 2004. It has three offices in Brazil, located in Sao Paulo and Belo Horizonte and Uberlândia. It is a member of the DRT international law firm alliance.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A team advises international and Brazilian clients on transactions. It advises both buyers and sellers in cross-border transactions.
The investment fund practice is active in the structuring, sale and acquisition of investment funds.
Key clients
Key clients include ASM Participações Societárias, Brinks, Codemge and Holt Accelerator Brazil Intralot Group.
Founding partner Helen Naves founded the boutique firm H Naves Advogados in 2021.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm focuses on banking and finance as well as capital markets work. The firm works on complex financing matters in Brazil and internationally.
Key Clients
Some of the firm’s key clients include B3, Univen Healthcare, GOW Capital, Banco Rendimento and Gol Linhas Aereas.
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's São Paulo office excels in guiding clients through Brazil's complex legal landscape. Their team provides comprehensive legal solutions with a global perspective, specializing in corporate and transactional areas like M&A and Capital Markets. Our Brazil capital markets practice, led by Isabel and Jonathan, is dynamic and client-focused. The team often showcases their expertise by advising on various equity and debt transactions. The global team of over 200 lawyers advises on sophisticated capital markets transactions, shaping market trends. The firm often regular outside counsel to over 110 US and foreign companies
Huck Otranto Camargo was established in 1993. The firm has two offices, with a main office in Sao Paulo and an office in Brasilia.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A group has experience in joint ventures, governance structure, private equity and more. The group is active in a broad array of sectors, including pharmaceutical, insurance, real estate and food and beverage.
Key clients
Key clients include Assupero (Grupo UNIP), Grupo Porto Seguro, Blau Farmacêutica and Brasil Norte Bebidas.
Machado Associados is a law firm with a leading international profile, as shown by many international transactions conducted since its foundation.
The M&A and Corporate services include: M&A transactions, structuring and restructuring business transactions, joint ventures, asset deals, sales of commercial establishments, and corporate reorganisations, and assistance for Brazilian companies to expand overseas by assessing the best legal structure, from a corporate, tax, labour and accounting standpoint.
TozziniFreire is a premier, full-service law firm that consistently provides legal services to domestic and international companies in a wide variety of business sectors. Along these years, we have played a major role in many of the most significant transactions in the Brazilian market, becoming one of the largest and most prestigious firms in Latin America.
We see ourselves as one cohesive entity and act accordingly. With fully-owned offices in several cities in Brazil, we are able to guarantee our clients the same outstanding services and one-firm resource throughout the country. This concept enables us to safeguard, every day, the firm’s culture, mission, and values – which are the essence of who we are and what we do.
Our expertise has been consistently recognized by international and national specialized publications. TozziniFreire and its partners are regularly recognized and recommended as leaders in their field of practice.
We are a high-performance legal firm and a strategic partner that provides innovative solutions for complex problems.
We continue to rethink and challenge our own convictions and beliefs in order to practice law differently. We believe that innovation is vital to our ability to provide ever more assertive and effective legal solutions to Brazilian and foreign clients.
Our high-performance team combines its expertise in offering highly integrated, collaborative legal services that are renowned throughout the market. As the ideal strategic partner for anticipating trends and solving your most complex problems, our full-service model unites the best lawyers across more than 40 areas of the law.
We believe our professionals are vital to our business and that performance and well-being go hand in hand. That is why we prioritize a humanized approach to people management, caring for our people and developing their full potential.
For us, practicing law is a means, not an end. We stand for democratic access to justice, the defense of fundamental rights and have pioneered pro bono legal practice in Brazil, providing free legal services to civil society organizations with financial constraints and individuals in economically and socially vulnerable situations.
This is how we give back to society. This is how we drive transformation.
Pinheiro Guimarães is one of the leading Brazilian firms in handling debt and equity issuances, syndicated loans, trade finance, mergers, acquisitions, structured finance, project finance, private equity, securitizations, investment funds, restructurings, bankruptcy, reorganizations, litigation and tax.
We are a leading Brazilian law firm, with full-service coverage and active across all economic sectors. We believe in providing services at the highest standards of excellence and ethics. Other pillars of our culture are respect in all relationships, collaborative and multidisciplinary teamwork, proactivity, and a vigorous pursuit of results that effectively add value to our clients.
Our organizational structure ensures that our services are provided with intensive partner involvement. We form teams that bring together the ideal combination of individuals and expertise for each specific case.We aim to establish a long-term strategic partnership with our clients, built on trust in our efficiency, quality, and ethical delivery of services. We are proactive in identifying and understanding the issues that are relevant to our clients.
As a full-service law firm, we offer a complete range of services in all areas of law to national and international clients. The advice we provide stems from our partnership with our clients and deep knowledge of their business.
With a track record in landmark cases and a deep understanding of each client’s context, we have received over 600 national and international recognitions in the past year.
We operate in a multidisciplinary and specialized, manner across various sectors of the economy, in more than 25 areas of law.
Each of our professionals plays a fundamental role in strengthening who we are and what we value on a daily basis, and our culture is based on values and principles that guide all our decisions.
Pinheiro Neto Advogados is a Brazilian, independent and full-service firm specialising in multi-disciplinary deals, and was the first Brazilian law firm to specialise in corporate clients. Over more than 80 years, the firm translates the Brazilian legal environment for the benefit of local and foreign clients.
With clients in almost 80 countries, the firm has grown organically, and developed a distinctive, tight-knit culture, with a low associate-to-partner ratio. With a focus on innovation, the firm has kept its competitive edge throughout the years, and is widely hailed as a beacon of the Brazilian legal market.
Founded in 1989, Loeser e Hadad Advogados was born with a genuine vocation to the Corporate Law area, due to the solid experience of its founding partners in tax and corporate consulting.
Over the years, professional excellence, versatility and full commitment to clients became the main reasons for the firm’s growth.
Also, the corporate world’s demand for specialized legal services kept intact one of the main values that distinguishes the firm: customized services open to the characteristics and needs of each client.
Such approach, in association with the constant search for the better application of the legal knowledge to the modern corporate dynamics, becomes the basis for its creative and innovative solutions.
In addition to operating in the most important legal and business centres in Brazil, Loeser e Hadad Advogados maintain close relationships with overseas correspondents.
This professional collaboration with an international network of lawyers enables Loeser e Hadad Advogados to provide legal services that meet the complex challenges of globalisation, offering their clients comprehensive solutions for the legal structuring of businesses in the world’s main jurisdictions, whilst ensuring their total professional independence, administrative autonomy, and corporate autonomy.
DLA Piper’s office in Brazil is based in São Paulo. The office acts as a foreign legal consultancy practice working under U.S. and New York state laws to serve Brazilian and international companies with cross-border matters, providing legal counsel on a wide range of matters throughout the Americas, and the globe. DLA Piper's global network of offices provides clients with integrated legal services across borders. They focus on building long-term relationships with their clients, understanding their business goals, and providing strategic legal advice to help them succeed in a rapidly changing and competitive global marketplace.
Navigating complex international cross-border legal and business landscapes is the focus of the team, providing seamless, comprehensive international legal and business solutions. The team in Brazil is multilingual and multicultural, representing clients on local and cross-border matters, including mergers and acquisitions, banking, project financing, capital markets, financings, compliance, antitrust, disputes, and other practice areas. The attorneys bring over 30 years of experience, many natives to Brazil, with vast personal networks built over decades in business with first-hand knowledge of Brazil’s and Latin America’s legal and political intricacies. The lawyers and business teams are fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish, German and French, amongst other languages, focusing on years of service to clients with business matters and interests in Brazil, Latin America and worldwide.
The US-Brazilian team is part of the US-Latin America practice. DLA Piper in Latin America’s Team offers full-service business legal counsel to US and global companies with interests in and operations throughout the region. With over 400 lawyers practicing throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico, in addition to our US-based cross-border attorneys, our team works with clients throughout every country in Latin America and help connect Latin America to the world.
The Latin America Practice is led in the US from Miami, with our US based team of multicultural and diverse cross-border practitioners regularly acting as lead counsel on a wide range of matters across sectors in the US and Latin America.
Demarest is one of the most renowned law firms in Brazil and ranks among the largest firms in Latin America. Throughout its history, providing services in the most diverse practice areas of law, Demarest has always maintained a commitment to providing legal services of the highest standards of quality and excellence.
Menna.Barreto Advogados is a dynamic and modern law firm dedicated to providing services to national and international companies and investors and focused on business structuring, mergers and acquisitions.
We are highly specialized in several areas of law with advanced knowledge in complementary areas such as accounting, finance and negotiations.
Our clients are from various sectors of the market, such as investors, builders and developers, infrastructure, defence, sanitation, financial institutions and investment funds, technology companies, startups, logistics, outsourcing, factories, companies operating in the areas of food and agriculture, and the automotive industry, aviation, oil and gas, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, beverages, marketing and advertising, as well as third sector organisations.
Over our 27 years in the legal market, BMA Advogados has taken part in the most significant and complex transactions in Brazil’s recent history. We act for businesses of all types in Brazil and other countries, and our focus is always on finding the most effective solutions for our clients’ issues, even when we have to break new legal ground to do it.
Our analytical, questioning approach has allowed us to create customized, innovative and even unprecedented solutions that have shaped the way business is done in Brazil since the end of the 20th century. Some of our recent work highlights include:
- Advised Fleury S.A. in the combination of Fleury's and Instituto Hermes Pardini S.A.'s businesses and shareholders’ bases.Advised Bait Inc and its shareholders in the sale of the company to Gafisa S.A.;
- Advised Aliansce Sonae in merger with BRMalls;
- Advised Guararapes S.A. in its migration to the Novo Mercado special listing segment of B3;
- Advised in the most important operations (Botafogo, Cruzeiro and Vasco) related to SAFs, new legal framework for Brazilian football clubs;
- Advised BRF raise 5.4 billion reais in a follow-on equity offering;Advised Grupo Fleury in its first issue of sustainability-linked bonds;
- Advised Oi S.A. in its restructuring, which has been considered the largest one in Latin America;
- Advised Lux Oil & Gas International, as controlling shareholder, in the financial restructuring of Constellation;
- Advised Quinto Andar in the acquisition of Grupo Navent's real estate business in six different countries;
- Advised Sul América S.A. in the business combination transaction with Rede D'Or São Luiz S.A.;
- Advised Ultrapar in the sale of Oxiteno.
Founded in 2002, Dias Carneiro is a full-service law firm with international mind. Its work covers a wide range of practices in a coordinated and integrated manner that enables it to identify trends and opportunities on Brazil's fast growing market. Over the years, the firm has developed a solid track record of high-value cross-border transactions advising domestic and foreign companies across key industry sectors.
The team is well-known for its sophisticated approach and its award-winning ability to offer effective and tailor-made solutions to a broad scale of legal needs.
We are trusted partners, allies in the search for the most appropriate legal solutions to the needs of each client. We create lasting relationships, based on a culture of commitment and collaboration, development of highly competent teams, and permanent updating of our legal and business knowledge.
We want our clients to recognize us for our ability to challenge conventional thinking in search of truly innovative answers to unique problems. Our purpose is to provide legal intelligence that leverages opportunities and helps preserve and create value for your business.
