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Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães N

plinio@pinheiroguimaraes.com.br

Work Department

Banking and the Financial Markets; Past-Due Credits and the Acquisition of Credit Portfolios; Project Development and Finance; Financing and Foreign Trade; Structured Finance and Securitization; Investment Funds; Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Private Equity and Venture Capital; Debt Restructuring; Banking Regulations; Regulations Relating to Publicly Traded Companies and Corporate Issues

Position

Partner

Career

Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães N. is the head of the Rio de Janeiro office of Pinheiro Guimarães firm and has been historically recognized as one of the leading lawyers in banking and finance, capital markets and M&A transactions in Brazil. Plinio stands out for his deep knowledge of the law and of the Brazilian market due to his solid relationship with the most important players in the financial and capital markets sectors. Plinio constantly is praised by clients for his hands-on approach and fine relationship skills which make him one of the most influential and prominent lawyers of his generation in Brazil, who is still deeply involved in deal execution and structuring of the most complex and high-end deals in the country. With an unusual and outstanding capacity of combining knowledge of several fields of law, Plinio is seen by clients as a strategist when it comes to negotiating banking and finance, capital markets and M&A transactions. He also brings his expertise to complex distressed situations and is able to offer creative solutions resulting from a long and impressive track record that includes the most high-end legal transactions carried out in the Brazilian legal market over the last couple of decades. Plinio is also praised by clients and by his fellow firm colleagues for his people management skills, which contributes to maintaining the high level of the work performed by the firm and keeping the firm´s professionals highly engaged and motivated.

Memberships

Brazilian Bar Association; New York Bar.

Education

Education: Colégio Padre Antônio Vieira, Rio de Janeiro (BA); University Cândido Mendes Law School, Rio de Janeiro (LLB, 1990); Columbia Law School, New York (LLM, 1994); Parker School Recognition of Achievement with honours in international law (1994). Foreign associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York (1991–1993). Member: Brazilian Bar Association; New York Bar.