Mariana Cobra > Mattos Filho > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Mattos Filho Offices
Al. Joaquim Eugênio de Lima, 447
São Paulo, SP, CEP 01403-001
Brazil
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Mariana Cobra
Work Department
Real Estate; Forestry Investments
Position
Partner
Career
With a career in law spanning over 20 years, Mariana has dedicated the past 15 years exclusively to the Real Estate practice area. She advises both domestic clients, foreign clients and law firms in all stages of the structuring and implementation of real estate transactions involving urban and rural properties.
She is frequently sought after for advice on strategic real estate matters and transactions involving various asset classes, including logistics, office, retail, medical offices, life sciences, data centers, hospitality, shopping centers and infrastructure. She also assists leading technology sector players with a diverse range of real estate purchase, sale and lease transactions.
Mariana’s expertise covers direct and indirect acquisitions, sales, real estate-based financing, development, leasing (including build-to-suit/sale and leaseback transactions), surface rights, and usufruct and construction agreements. Her international experience includes working for the Portuguese law firm PLMJ Sociedade de Advogados.
Languages
Portuguese and English
Education
Bachelor of Laws – Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie;
Specialization in Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP);
Extension course in Accounting Applied to Law – Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP);
Extension course in Real Estate Investment – Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-SP).
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Real estate
(Next Generation Partners)Mattos Filho fields a ‘multidisciplinary and integrated team’ of lawyers with ‘enormous experience‘ in the real estate sector. Praised for its ‘pro-business attitude’, the firm is regularly involved in some of the most novel transactions and development projects to hit the country’s commercial real estate market. This includes providing support to major investment funds, corporate investors, sovereign funds and developers in high-end urban and rural real estate deals. Portfolio transactions with a heavy corporate element also feature prominently on the workload. Standing out for her in-depth knowledge of real estate financing transactions, Rossana Fernandes Duarte is well versed in the gamut of real estate matters, including leasing agreements, land use, real estate investment funds and build-to-suit transactions. In addition to being a key adviser to investment funds, developers and institutional investors, Janaína Vargas is also the name to note for the forestry and agribusiness segments. M&A involving real estate assets is a core area of activity for Fernando Amendola, while Mariana Spoto Cobra has recently advised on data centre projects, construction agreements, financings, and acquisitions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Tax > Customs
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Labour and employment
- City focus - Brasilia > Litigation
- Projects and infrastructure
- Real estate
- City focus - Brasilia > Tax
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- Wealth and succession planning
- White-collar crime and investigations