Paula Beatriz Carneiro Pessôa > Pinheiro Guimarães > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Pinheiro Guimarães Offices
AV RIO BRANCO 181
27TH FLOOR
20040-918 RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ
Brazil
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Paula Beatriz Carneiro Pessôa
Work Department
Banking and the Financial Markets; Past-Due Credits and the Acquisition of Credit Portfolios; Structured Finance and Securitization; Financing and Foreign Trade; Investment Funds; Capital Markets; Private Equity and Venture Capital; Debt Restructuring; Banking Regulations
Position
Partner
Career
Paula Pessôa has a vast experience in structured finance products in general, derivatives, investment funds and public sector financing. She is also recognized for her knowledge of regulatory aspects associated with asset management, asset administration and private banking services. She has strong academic and professional credentials, and an extensive knowledge of Brazilian structured finance transactions, especially involving structured products such as credit rights investment funds (FIDCs), private equity investment funds (FIPs) and real estate investment funds (FIIs). She has a hands -on approach and is deeply involved in the structuring and execution of many complex deals in the Brazilian structured funds market. Her practice includes creative structured finance transactions, including securitization of receivables, real estate and financial assets, as well as local and cross-border derivative transactions. She has represented Brazilian underwriters and asset management companies in the structuring of innovative deals, such as a recent R$1.1 billion credit rights investment fund, in which IDB and IFC made a relevant investment, which was tailordrafted to meet the target investors’ profile. She is also actively involved in public sector financing, including loan transactions with Brazilian states. This year Paula counselled Klabin in connection with the issuance of Export Credit Notes in favor of Banco Bradesco S.A.
Memberships
Brazilian Bar Association
Education
Education: American School of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (BA); University of Santa Ursula Law School, Rio de Janeiro (LLB, 1993). Foreign associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York (1995–1996). Member: Brazilian Bar Association.
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Banking and finance
Pinheiro Guimarães acts for an impressive mix of major borrowers and lenders, including banks, development agencies, corporates and state entities. Showcasing a varied transactional expertise that covers domestic and cross-border acquisition financings, structured products, syndicated loans, refinancings and trade financings, the multifaceted practice is also singled out for its strong track record in project and asset finance. Ivie Moura Alves is a strong performer in mandates involving syndicated loans and debt capital markets. Fábio Yanitchkis Couto is a key contact for distressed debt and structured finance. The latter is a core area of practice for Paula Beatriz Carneiro Pessôa, while Roberta Giamattey Pimentel Fonseca Kelley is especially recommended for project finance. The team is led respectively out of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo by Francisco José Pinheiro Guimarães and Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães Neto, both of whom are references in the banking and finance market. Up-and-coming partner Marcela Taquette Vaz is developing a good reputation for cross-border loans and bond offerings.