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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)
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.”
Founded in 1994, Viseu Advogados is a full-service firm located in Sao Paulo.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A team at the firm advises Brazilian and international clients in mergers, spin-offs and acquisitions. It has strengths in sectors such as insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, defense and technology.
Key clients
Among the clients of the firm are Panasonic Brasil, Wella, Western Union, Awa Minerações and Teak Resources Company.
Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados was founded in 2005. It is a full-service firm with two offices in Brazil, in Sao Paulo and Brasilia. The firm is part of a strategic alliance with Dentons, offering the firm a global reach and access to international expertise. The banking and finance team at the firm advises local and international clients on financial transaction structuring. Services the firm provides include financial system regulatory advisory, private banking and wealth management and privatizations and infrastructure investments. The capital markets practice advises on debt issues, promissory note issues and securitizations.
Veirano Advogados was founded in 1972. The firm has a focus on business law and advises multinational companies in a variety of sectors. The firm has four offices in Brazil, located in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Porto Alegre and Brasilia. The firm is a member of several international legal groups including World Services Group, Lus Laboris, IsFin and GALA. The banking and finance team advises on national and cross-border transactions. The firm has experience with secured credit facilities, mezzanine financing, structured receivables arrangements and acquisition finance.
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.
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.
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."
Silveiro Advogados was founded in 1956. The firm has two locations, with offices in Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo. The firm is well recognized for its history in Rio Grande do Sul.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A group at the firm is well known for its work on cross-border M&A and private equity transactions. The department consists of a strong group of partners, with broad experience in commercial, corporate and financial law.
Key clients
Key clients for the firm include Zion Capital, KWITKO, Recrusul and IESDE Brasil.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
M&A
"Excellent tax, real estate and company law teams."
"responsive, professional, loyal"
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.
KLA Advogados was founded in 2002 and is a full-service law firm. It has two offices in Brazil, one in Sao Paulo and the other in Brasilia.
Focusses / specialisms
The M&A team is experienced in assisting the incorporation of companies, negotiating and structuring joint ventures and acquisitions, as well as full due diligence for clients before their acquisition or sale.
Key clients
Key clients for the firm include, General Mills, Mars, Dentsu Aegis Network, Banco Brasil Plural, Royal Bank of Canada, QMC Telecom and Habitaec Securitizadora.
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
M&A
"Unmatched responsiveness and market insight."
"Very competent, professional and precise"
Founded in 2013, Eduardo Menna Barreto Socidedade de Advogados is a Brazilian firm based in São Paulo. It serves national and international clients including construction companies, developers, investors, investment funds, startups and family-owned businesses. The firm focuses on strategic transactions in the M&A practice area. It also advises clients in the project development space on infrastructure transactions.
Highlights
The firm’s M&A practice advised clients on confidential matters.
Key clients
The firm’s key clients include Tempest Serviços de Informática, Extreme Digital Consultoria e Representações, Natural One, Ionic Health Tecnologies and Lanca Urbanismo.
Marcos Martins Advogados was founded in 1983, and has since developed into a full-service firm with multidisciplinary services including Corporate and M&A. The firm has two offices located in São Paulo and Marília. The firm’s tax and labor services complement its corporate finance practices, allowing it to work on complex transactions for domestic and international clients. It is also proudly committed to ethical, social and organizational values.
Highlights
The firm’s M&A practice advised clients on confidential matters.
Key clients
Bloxs, Bonfiglioli, Caruso, DOMO.VC and FOOD2C
Mello Torres Advogados was founded in 2018. The firm is well known for its transactional work. The firm has two offices, with locations in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. It is a member of a world-wide alliance with Allen & Overy and HSF. The capital markets team assists clients in private placements, tender offers, and securitization transactions. In addition, it assists clients in debt and equity instruments, advising on financing of local and international markets. The firm handles investment fund work as well, assisting clients in the structuring and offering of securities. It is most active in real estate receivables.
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
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.
Brazilian firm Villemor Amaral Advogados founded in 1909 stands out for their work in the Projects, Energy and Oil & Gas sectors. With a solid track record of well over 20 years, the firm takes a practical and comprehensive approach providing legal representation in projects related to the generation, transmission, distribution and commercialization of electric power. The team serves a variety of clients such as operators, equipment suppliers, service companies, and distributors facilitating the use of the extensive knowledge of the legal aspects of these sectors to better serve their clients. The firm’s lawyers specialize in structuring and developing renewable and conventional energy projects.
Koga Advogados is a Brazilian firm founded in 2015. The firm excels in Capital Markets and Corporate law, with a strong focus on Contract Design services. They assist coordinators, issuers, investors, managers, and securitization companies with documentation for public offerings and private placements. Koga Advogados ensures strict adherence to regulations set by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) and the Brazilian Association of Financial and Capital Markets Entities (ANBIMA), facilitating smooth transactions and guaranteeing compliance.
NFA Advogados was formed in 2011 and has offices in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The firm specializes in real estate, corporate and capital market transactions focusing on private and public offerings of investment funds and debt securities related to the real estate market. The firm sets itself apart by being readily available to clients 24/7 and uniquely servicing their clients by ensuring that their head partners and senior associates personally conduct the whole process of each public offering. This establishes trust between themselves and their clients and helps to maintain long -term relationships.
Souta Correa, a Brazilian firm founded in 2013, is headquartered in Porto Alegre, with additional offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasília. The firm specializes in structuring national and cross-border project finance transactions across various industries. Their expertise includes direct and indirect financing through multilateral organizations, export development agencies, development banks, financial institutions, and capital markets. They provide comprehensive advice at all stages of project finance, from modeling and structuring to implementation, due diligence, risk assessment, document drafting, negotiation, and tax and regulatory analysis. Their team excels in assisting financiers and companies in infrastructure sectors like energy, transportation, sanitation, oil and gas, telecommunications, and mining, ensuring successful and compliant project finance transactions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
