Mrs Clarissa Freitas > Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados > São Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
R. JOAQUIM FLORIANO
1052 – SÃO PAULO
SP 04534004
Brazil

Work Department

Corporate, Capital Markets, Wealth Planning, M&A and Private Equity, Chemicals And Petrochemicals, Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Pulp And Paper, Construction, Retail And Consumer, Esg And Impact Businesses, Corporate Litigation

Position

Partner

Career

Clarissa Freitas is specialist in corporate law, corporate governance, corporate restructurings, corporate litigation involving administrative proceedings before the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), tender offers, mergers and acquisitions involving private and public companies, and succession planning. She has a special focus in complex transactions and M&As involving publicly-held companies. She is an expert in corporate and regulatory laws and regulations issued by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM). Her practice encompasses giving advice in daily corporate acts and in complex corporate transactions involving publicly and closely-held companies, advising public company’s investor relations areas with their periodic and eventual obligations before the CVM, preparing defenses in administrative proceedings and sanctioning proceedings initiated by the CVM, analyzing and suggesting structures to improve corporate governance of companies, structuring and conducting tender offer proceedings, reviewing contracts and implementing M&A transactions, reviewing shareholders’ agreements, structuring and implementing proceedings of corporate reorganization and individuals’ succession and assets’ protection.

Languages

Portuguese and English

Memberships

Admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association.

Education

Received her LL.B from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, specialization degree in Corporate Law and Capital Markets from Fundação Getulio Vargas and LL.M in Corporate and Commercial Law from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > Wealth and succession planning

Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados leverages its strong tax, corporate and litigation expertise to act for wealthy individuals and family groups in the gamut of wealth management and succession matters. The practice’s main areas of strength include estate and succession planning, corporate restructurings, asset reorganisations and cross-border wealth structuring. Its deep knowledge of banking regulation and investment vehicles makes the group a popular destination for foreign investors and banks. Noted for his experience advising on transfer pricing, M&A and cross-border transactions, Celso Costa oversees the team, which features the highly endorsed tax expert Fernando Colucci and Clarissa Freitas, who is well versed in corporate matters. Tax specialist Carlos Pacheco Fernandes and succession planning expert Rafael Stuppiello stand out at the senior associate level.