Bruno Soares

Bruno is a Partner in our global Projects, Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure group and is head of our Latin America practice. Bruno has over 20 years’ working experience in Brazil, Latin America and Africa in banking and projects as well as M&A and capital markets.

• Advised Bank of China, Luxembourg Branch in the USD850m acquisition financing of Empresa de Generación Huallaga S.A. (EGH) by China Three Gorges. 
• Advised Vale S.A. (Vale), the world’s largest iron ore producer, in the acquisition of Dutch-based innovation company, New Steel, for USD500m from Hankoe FIP investment fund. 
• Advised VLI Multimodal S.A. in connection with an unsecured approximately USD50 million term loan facility to be made available by Japan Bank for International Cooperation, guaranteed by VLI S.A., for the purposes of funding capex requirements for railway maintenance. 
• Advised Brazilian food company BRF on its disposal, for approximately USD340m, of its European and Thai poultry businesses to US food producer Tyson Foods, Inc.

• Banking
• M&A
• Project bonds
• Project finance
• Trade finance

• Banking
• Energy
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Transport

• Bar of the State of New York, 2010; Brazilian Bar Association, Brazil, 1996

• LL.M., University of Pennsylvania Law School
• LL.B., Catholic University of Salvador, Brazil