BRAZIL Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Marcelo Lucidi, Henrique Forssell, Octaviano Duarte and André Marcassa Duarte Forssell Advogados
Duarte Forssell Advogados (DFA) is a bou - tique law firm composed of four partners and 25 lawyers specialised in complex litigation, international asset recovery and transnational insolvency. The firm’s professionals have over 20 years’ experience in complex multi-jurisdic - tion claims and transactions. The team advises financial institutions, trustees, foreign liquida - tors and Brazilian and foreign business groups
in legal matters involving commercial, banking, bankruptcy, succession, corporate and con - tractual law. Headquartered in São Paulo, the firm operates in over 50 countries by means of an international network of legal professionals. DFA is the only law firm based in São Paulo that integrates FraudNet, an international network of lawyers created by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
Authors
Marcelo Lucidi is a partner at DFA, specialising in cross- border insolvency, asset recovery and distressed M&A. He has experience both in the transactional area, in projects of
Henrique Forssell is a founding partner of DFA, with extensive experience in advising trustees, foreign liquidators and financial institutions in the identification of bankruptcy and banking
reorganisation and purchase of publicly and closely held companies, and in commercial litigation with a focus on insolvency. He has advised investors in the purchase of assets of companies in judicial reorganisation or bankruptcy. In the area of international recovery of assets, he advises financial institutions, trustees and a variety of creditors in identifying and recovering assets diverted as a result of bankruptcy fraud as well as fraud in the capital markets.
frauds. Over the last 16 years, he has been appointed by several judicial authorities to some of the most significant proceedings of international recovery of assets in Brazil. Since 2011, he has been a member of FraudNet, an organisation established by the International Chamber of Commerce that selects highly qualified and experienced lawyers in recovery of assets in each country. He was named as a reference lawyer in Brazil in recovery of defrauded assets by a leading legal research company.
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