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Sergio Torres
Work Department
Sergio Torres is a corporate associate and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Latin America Groups.
Position
His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, complex joint ventures, venture capital and private equity investments and corporate governance matters for private equity sponsors, financial institutions and other corporate clients. His experience includes advising clients such as Kelso & Company, Carlyle, Blackstone, Gympass, Naviera Ultranav, Ambev, CPPIB, BTG, H.I.G, Southern Cross and Globo Ventures.
Career
Mr. Torres is an Adjunct Professor at the Legal English Institute of Fordham Law School, where he teaches “Contract Drafting and Negotiation” to international students.
In 2022, he co-authored the preface of “Fusões e Aquisições: Pareceres” (Mergers and Acquisitions: Legal Opinions), a book compromising a collection of legal opinions rendered by Brazilian legal scholars in M&A arbitration disputes in Brazil.
Mr. Torres was a speaker in the Global Private Equity Conference organized by the International Finance Corporation and the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association in Washington, D.C. in 2019, where he discussed Structuring and Governance of Private Equity M&A Deals in Emerging Markets.
He regularly writes for the firm’s Private Equity Report and, in 2016, he co-authored the article “Breves anotações sobre derivativos e securitização no Brasil” (Notes on derivatives and securitization in Brazil) published by Revista de Direito Empresarial.
Mr. Torres was an international associate at Debevoise from 2013 to 2014, and rejoined in 2016. Prior to joining Debevoise, he was a senior M&A counsel with Itaú Unibanco S.A. and legal counsel at Louis Dreyfus Commodities. Earlier in his carrier, Mr. Torres worked at Mexichem and Bunge.
Languages
Mr. Torres is fluent in Portuguese and English and proficient in Spanish.
Education
He received an LL.M. from Stanford Law School in 2016, and his law degree from University of Blumenau, Brazil, in 2008. He also received an M.B.A. in Taxation from Fundação Getulio Vargas in 2009, and post-graduate degrees in International Trade from Instituto Internacional de Ciências Sociais in 2011, and corporate law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo in 2013.
Lawyer Rankings
Latin America: International firms > Corporate and M&A
(Rising stars)Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has an impressive background in representing strategic corporates and private equity sponsors in Latin America. Along with a range of multinationals and international investors, the firm has also built a significant client base of Latin American businesses. Energy, infrastructure, financial services, insurance, mining and telecoms are primary sectors for the Latin America team. The transactional group often work alongside litigation colleagues in relation to anti-corruption due diligence (the firm is ranked tier one for compliance and investigations in this guide). Maurizio Levi-Minzi has huge experience advising private equity houses and strategic investors in Latin America; he led the team that advised Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Alberta Investment Management Corporation on their portfolio company Grupo Saesa’s $1.5bn acquisition of a 99.09% interest in Enel Transmisión Chile. David Grosgold is also noted for transactions in the financial services and insurance sectors. Signalling the firm’s commitment to the Brazil market in particular, the team’s senior ranks were further strengthened with the promotion of dual-qualified (New York/Brazil) Sergio Torres to counsel in July 2023; a key member of the practice group, he works on many of the firm’s Latin America transactions.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)