Financial and Capital Markets
Guidance, advice and structuring of financial operations in Brazil and abroad with public and private companies, banks, stockbrokers, investment managers and insurance companies.
- Legal advice on the analysis, development and implementation of structured financial transactions for private sector companies, banks, broker-dealers and insurance companies, including investment and financing transactions;
- Legal advice on securities transactions, including equity and debt offerings, block-trades and tender offers;
- Assistance to asset managers, fund administrators, investment consultants, professional investors, family offices and service providers in the fund industry;
- Legal assistance in the set-up of investment funds and the development of management and distribution arrangements in the domestic and international markets;
- Set-up of special investment fund vehicles, such as local private equity funds (Fundos de Investimento em Participações), local emerging enterprises funds (Fundos de Investmento em Empresas Emergentes), local real estate funds (Fundos de Investimento Imobilário) and offshore funds, including hedge funds and private equity funds;
- Assistance with securitization transactions in multiple industry sectors, including the structuring of local securitization funds (Fundos de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios), bank credit notes (Debentures, Cédulas de Crédito Bancário), real estate receivables certificate (Certificados de Recebíveis Imobiliários) and collective investment contracts (Contratos de Investimento Coletivo);
- Legal advice on agribusiness transactions, backed by rural commodity note (Cédulas de Produto Rural), agribusiness certificates of deposits (Certificados de Depósito Agropecuário), agribusiness warrants (Warrants Agropecuário), agribusiness credit bill (Letras de Crédito do Agronegócio), agribusiness receivables certificate (Certificados de Recebíveis do Agronegócio);
- Assistance with investment arrangements involving foreign investments in the domestic financial and capital markets, and Brazilian investments in the international financial markets;
- Structuring of project finance transactions in several industry sectors;
- Structuring and reviewing of banking transactions and products, related to corporate loans, trade financing, OTC derivatives, etc;
- Legal advice to market players on Brazilian Central Bank and Securities Commission regulatory issues;
- Legal representation of clients in administrative and court disputes involving financial entities, asset managers, broker-dealers, companies and professional investors; and
- Legal advice on the organization and operational planning of financial entities, asset managers, broker-dealers, and other related companies.