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Managing partner Jyrki Tähtinen's areas of specialization are venture capital, private equity, M&A, reorganizations, capital markets, financing and corporate governance. Tähtinen has acted as an adviser to a number of venture capital and private equity funds both in setting up the funds and assisting them in making exit investments. Tähtinen frequently advises listed and non-listed companies in drafting and implementing corporate governance programs. He has also participated in planning and implementing many Finnish and international acquisitions, divestments, demergers and mergers as well as financing arrangements and initial public offerings. Tähtinen is a member of the boards of directors of a number of Finnish and foreign companies. In addition to his law studies, he has also completed an MBA degree at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.

By Emmanuel Paras and Marievic Ramos-Añonuevo of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan

By Paul Lee, corporate governance analyst, Hermes Investment Management

Stilpon Nestor, Principal, Nestor Advisors Ltd

By Robert Bostrom of Winston & Strawn

By Carol Hansell of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Alexandre Gossn Barreto, partner of Souza, Cescon Avedissian, Barrieu e Flesch Advogados, is a Bachelor in Law (LLB) at the University of São Paulo Law School (USP) and a Master in banking and finance law (LLM) at the Boston University Law School. Alexandre Barreto specializes in capital markets, banking law, general financing and privatization. He has advised several financial institutions and Brazilian companies in transactions in the international markets, including UBS Warburg in the listing of ADRs level III of SABESP in the NYSE, and Petrobras in the first shelf registration with the SEC for a Brazilian company, in the amount of $8 billion. In addition, he has advised in several representative transactions in the Brazilian capital markets, including public issuances of bonds (Petrobras, in a R$750 million debentures issuance, Unibanco in a R$1.3 billion debentures issuance by Telemar, a consortium of banks led by Unibanco, BBA, Itaú, Bradesco, ING Barings and Sudameris in a R$600 million debentures issuance by Cemig, and a consortium of banks led by Unibanco, BBA, Itaú, Bradesco and Bank of America in a R$500 million debentures issuance by Copel).

Receivables securitization in Brazil By Alexandre Barreto and Ronald Herscovici of Souza, Cescon Avedissian, Barrieu e Flesch Advogados, São Paulo

By José Guardo of Garrigues, Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid

Synthetic securitization: a growing funding technique By Simonetta Andrioli and Luca Dezzani of Zini and Associates, Milan