Mr Guilherme Azevedo > Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados > Belo Horizonte, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados Offices
Avenida Getúlio Vargas,
671, 12º andar, Funcionários
Belo Horizonte, MG
30112-021
Brazil
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Mr Guilherme Azevedo
Work Department
Capital Markets, Infrastructure and Energy, M&A and Private Equity, Financial Services
Position
Partner
Career
Alves is specialist in public offerings of securities, projects’ financing, securitized receivables, and mergers and acquisitions. The focus of his practice is structuring financial products and drafting instruments in debt capital markets’ transactions in Brazil and abroad, with emphasis on the provision of legal assistance to financial institutions and companies that issue securities in debentures issuance, commercial papers, bonds, promissory notes, Real Estate Receivables Certificates (CRI) and other instruments of indebtedness. Alves has previous experience in the areas of knowledge of banking, energy, logistics, and civil construction.
Memberships
Admitted in Brazilian Bar Association and International Bar Association (IBA)
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M, 2018)
- Bachelor of Laws from Faculdade de Direito Milton Campos, 2008
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Capital markets
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados is home to a capital markets team composed of ‘extremely qualified professionals, with very high delivery, both in volume and quality’. Clients, including issuers and underwriters, particularly appreciate the ‘close, individualised and deeply specialised service’ which covers debt and equity products. The firm’s strong banking relationships ensures that it is particularly adept at navigating regulatory complexities. In addition to its capabilities in the banking sector, the group is also present in the infrastructure, healthcare, energy, real estate, telecoms and technology spaces. Key partners include the versatile Eliana Helena de Gregório Ambrósio Chimenti, and Gustavo Secaf Rebello, who is well versed in capital markets deals and M&A involving publicly traded companies. Raphael Zono, Guilherme Azevedo and Bruno Racy, all of whom are highly active on the debt side, are singled out for their ‘technical capacity’ and ‘differentiated analytical outlook’. Belo Horizonte-based partner Gustavo Rugani is considered an ‘exceptional professional’.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Labour and employment
- City focus - Brasilia > Litigation
- TMT: Telecoms
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Transport: Aviation
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Wealth and succession planning
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Compliance
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- Venture capital
- Life sciences
- White-collar crime and investigations
- TMT: Telecoms
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- City focus - Brasilia > Tax