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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Market leader
Bar Admissions:
Brazil
Practice Areas:
Banking
Project finance
Project development
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Social infrastructure
Languages:
Portuguese
English
Biography

Pablo represents companies, sponsors, investment funds and financial institutions in a wide variety of transactions in the infrastructure and energy sectors. He advises on asset sales and purchases, structured finance, acquisition finance and project finance. Pablo previously worked as a foreign lawyer at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York, and is currently co-chair of the Stanford Law School Alumni Association in Brazil and Sector Vice President of the Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA).

He is consistently recognized as a leading Projects lawyer by Chambers (Band 1), IFLR (Market Leader), The Legal 500 (Leading Lawyer), among others. Pablo holds a law degree from PUC-RJ, an executive MBA from IBMEC-RJ and an LLM from Stanford Law School.

Practice areas
  • Banking
  • Project development
  • Project finance
Sector specialisations
  • Energy
  • Mining
  • Oil and gas
  • Shipping
  • Social infrastructure
Association memberships
  • IBRADEMP – Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Empresarial 
Academic qualifications
  • Bachelor of Laws – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
  • Master of Laws (LL.M.) – Stanford Law School
  • Executive MBA – Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais

 

Address:
Rio de Janeiro
Tel:+55 21 3231 8203 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.mattosfilho.com.br/en/professional/pablo-sorj/