Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados

Media, sports and entertainment / M&A and private equity / Contracts and complex negotiations / Venture capital and startups / Latin America & Iberia Desk

Partner

Gabriel specializes in corporate law and advises on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions. He represents companies, investment funds, and football clubs in transactions involving Brazilian football corporations (SAFs), including structuring, negotiation, and debt restructuring. He has extensive experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements, as well as contracts in the sports and entertainment sectors, including sponsorship agreements, naming rights, player transfers, image rights assignments, partnerships, supply agreements, and audiovisual co-production arrangements.

He represents clients before the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and has experience in sectors including food and beverage, construction, power, sports, entertainment, logistics, pulp and paper, services, startups, retail, and tissue.

Portuguese and English.

Brazilian Bar Association

New York State Bar

Fundação Getúlio Vargas - GVlaw, São Paulo - Postgraduate Course in Corporate Law

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, United States - LL.M.

Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo, PUC-SP - Bachelor of Laws