Pedro Henrique Ricco Verzemiassi > Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados > São Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados has made a strong push into the insurance and reinsurance market in the past year with the recruitment of two partners from Mattos Filho. New practice head Cassio Gama Amaral, who ‘lends the firm solid credibility in advising insurers and reinsurers’ on contentious and non-contentious matters, and Thomaz Kastrup, ‘an excellent lawyer with many years of experience in the (re)insurance market’ who is especially strong on the corporate and regulatory fronts, joined the firm in December 2022. The team now has ‘some of the best professionals in the market’ with a comprehensive offering that benefits from a strong overlap with the firm’s corporate and finance practices. Other key partners include Eduardo Avila de Castro, who stands out for his experience in banking regulatory matters, and Nei Schilling Zelmanovits, who excels in transactional work. Associate Pedro Henrique Ricco Verzemiassi is active in regulatory and corporate matters pertaining to the insurance and reinsurance sectors.