BRAZIL Law and Practice Contributed by: Caio Ferreira Silva, Thiago Braga Junqueira, Vinícius Pimenta Seixas and Rodrigo Vieira, Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados is an independent, full-service Brazilian firm with offices in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Palo Alto (USA) and Tokyo (Japan), specialising in multidiscipli- nary deals. It was the first Brazilian law firm to focus on corporate clients, and has received the Excellence Award in Export of Legal Services from the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Industry and Development. The acquisition finance and M&A teams consist of more than 100 experienced professionals with expertise in virtually all in- dustries, acting in public or private M&A deals
spanning private equity, regulated industries, competitive processes, buyouts, corporate restructuring, turnaround and joint ventures. Recent highlights include advising Mubadala Investment Company on the financing arrange- ments and acquisition of Petrobras’ refining and logistic assets related to the Landulpho Alves Refinery Cluster, counselling Cosan in its acqui- sition of a stake in Vale’s capital stock, and as- sisting Auren Energia in its debenture issuance for the business combination between Auren and AES Brasil.
Authors
Caio Ferreira Silva has been a member of the corporate/
Thiago Braga Junqueira has been working in the corporate restructuring and insolvency practice at Pinheiro Neto Advogados for 12 years, and has extensive experience in
structured finance practice at Pinheiro Neto Advogados since 2001. His practice focuses primarily on investment funds and banking and finance, covering project finance, structured/corporate finance, securitisations, public-private partnerships, privatisations, capital markets and M&A. Caio graduated with an LLB degree from the University of São Paulo in 2003 with a major in business and tax administration law, and holds a master’s degree in International Law from the same university (2007) and an LLM degree from Harvard Law School (2011). He previously worked as an international associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.
representing debtors, partners and shareholders, creditors and investors in judicial and out-of-court reorganisation and bankruptcy proceedings. He has actively taken part in several prominent cases involving the restructuring of debtors in the construction, telecommunications, media, oil and gas, agribusiness and energy sectors. Thiago holds an LLB degree from the São Paulo Catholic University and an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School.
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