Ms Elisa Rezende > Veirano Advogados > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Veirano Advogados Offices
Av. Bartolomeu Mitre
770 – Leblon
22431-004
Brazil
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Ms Elisa Rezende
Work Department
Banking & Finance; Corporate & Mergers and Acquisitions; Shipping/Maritime & Port
Position
Counsellor
Career
Elisa Rezende has significant experience advising domestic and foreign clients on matters in the banking and finance, capital markets and corporate law areas. She regularly provides counsel to financial institutions, multilateral agencies and international financial institutions, including the International Finance Corporation and the Nordic Investment Bank.
Ms. Rezende handles a wide range of corporate transactions, including loans, syndicated loans and other financing transactions. She also assists with cross-border offerings of debt and equity securities, cross-border securitization transactions, joint venture partnership deals, project finance transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Rezende represents clients in a variety of industries, including mining, shipping, oil & gas and banking.
From 2006 through 2008, Ms. Rezende worked as an associate in the Miami office of a leading US-based global law firm. She focused her practice in the area of capital markets, where she represented issuers, underwriters and other participants in cross- border offerings of debt and equity securities, including offerings under Rule 144A and Regulation S, private placements and registered offerings with the SEC and the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM).
Ms. Rezende also worked as international associate at a major New York law firm from 2004 through 2005 in the structured finance practice. In this role, she mainly represented financial institutions in structured finance transactions involving Latin American issuers in the banking sector.
Languages
English; Portuguese
Memberships
- Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) – Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
- New York State Bar Association
Education
- LL.M, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2004
- LL.B., Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 1999
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Banking and finance
(Rising stars)Covering both domestic and cross-border matters, Veirano Advogados is a popular choice for major banks and multilateral lenders in asset and project finance transactions in the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors. Rated for its ‘excellent ability to work with other international firms‘, the firm is highly active in structured products, debt capital markets, and acquisition finance, and well placed to handle deals with a multijurisdictional dimension. Leading the team is projects head Ana Carolina Barretto, who works out of the São Paulo office. Other noteworthy practitioners include Lior Pinsky, who focuses on capital markets, and the ‘competent and available’ counsel Elisa Rezende, who regularly acts for financial institutions, multilateral agencies and international financial institutions. Former co-head Marcelo Mattos and partner Rogério Campos left the firm in September and July 2023, respectively.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Tax > Customs
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Labour and employment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Real estate
- City focus - Brasilia > Tax
- TMT: Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition and antitrust
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Dispute resolution
- International trade
- Projects and infrastructure
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Wealth and succession planning
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Environment
- Public law
- City focus - Brasilia > Public law and regulation
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Tax
- Tax > Tax litigation
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- TMT: Media
- Transport: Aviation
- Venture capital
- Compliance
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Life sciences
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- Intellectual property