Mariana Silveira Martins Jost > Pinheiro Guimarães > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

Pinheiro Guimarães
AV BRIG FARIA LIMA 3064
14TH FLOOR
01451-000 SÃO PAULO, SP
Brazil

Work Department

Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Private Equity and Venture Capital; Regulations Relating to Publicly Traded Companies and Corporate Issues

Position

Partner

Career

Mariana Jost is a young partner of the firm who focus her practice in transactions involving publicly-held companies with listed securities in Brazil and internationally. Her extensive experience development in the M&A practice, her deep knowledge of securities regulation and orientations of the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM (the Brazilian SEC) and her up-to-date take on the most recent decisions of the CVM issued on a case-specific basis and claims made by minority shareholders is highly praised by clients (financial advisors, intermediary institutions in tender offers, hostile bidders, management of listed companies and large corporations) and have been proved key in the structuring transactions in innovative ways and within short timeframe, with constant interaction with the CVM and the stock exchange. Mariana also works along other partners of the firm in leading the teams involved in strategic administrative proceedings initiated by the CVM against regulated companies and their management for alleged violations to applicable securities regulations.

Memberships

Brazilian Bar Association

Education

Education: Colégio Santo Agostinho, Rio de Janeiro (BA); Catholic University Law School, Rio de Janeiro (LLB, 2008); New York University School of Law (specialisation in commercial law, 2009). University of São Paulo Law School, São Paulo (LLM, 2016, in commercial law). Member: Brazilian Bar Association.

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > Capital markets

Pinheiro Guimarães provides top-notch expertise in high-profile debt and equity capital markets deals. Major listed companies, financial institutions, and investment funds routinely turn to the practice for support in their most significant listings. With extensive experience in acting for both issuers and underwriters, the group’s ‘deep knowledge’ and broad service offering covers cross-border IPOs, secondary offerings, private placements, as well as real estate and agribusiness certificates. The team is led by highly esteemed banking, M&A and capital markets specialists Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães and Francisco José Pinheiro Guimarães, who are based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo respectively. Senior partner Cristina Tomiyama combines comprehensive knowledge of capital markets regulations with a strong track record in ECM transactions, including IPOs, follow-ons and dual listings. The ‘extremely diligent and assertiveIvie Moura Alves is particularly skilled in debt offerings, while Bruno Lardosa maintains a broad practice acting for financial institutions, investors, multilaterals, asset managers and large corporations in ECM and DCM deals. The ‘excellentMariana Silveira Martins Jost and the ‘very technicalCarolina Testoni Alonso Camargo, who excels in asset-backed capital markets transactions, are also part of the core team.