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Pinheiro Neto Advogados Offices

Pinheiro Neto Advogados
RUA HUNGRIA, 1100
SÃO PAULO, SP 01455-906
Brazil
Visit website 55 11 3247 8400 55 11 3247 8600

Mr Tiago A. D. Themudo Lessa

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+55 11 3247 8400 tlessa@pn.com.br

Work Department

Banking and Financial Regulation, Agribusiness and Derivatives.

Position

Partner.

Career

Trainee of Pinheiro Neto in 1997. Associate of Pinheiro Neto in 2000. Partner of Pinheiro Neto in 2011. Foreign Associate at Allen & Overy LLP (New York Office) (2007-2008).

Tiago Araujo Dias Themudo Lessa practices in banking, financial and foreign exchange law matters, with extensive experience in financing, derivatives and capital market transactions. Tiago has amassed an unrivaled expertise in commercial and financial transactions in those segments. He has advised several domestic and international clients in the design of innovative structures that eventually improved the banking, derivatives and agribusiness standards, including agribusiness receivables certificates (CRAs). Renowned by clients as a very creative lawyer, Tiago takes part in several discussion forums aimed to improve the legal and regulatory frameworks for the banking, financial and agribusiness areas.

Languages

Portuguese and English.

Memberships

ISDA – International Swaps and Derivatives AssociationBrazilian Committee
ANBIMA – Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets AssociationComitê de Títulos do Agronegócio
ABAG – Brazilian Agribusiness AssociationComitê de Financiamento Privado ao Agronegócio

Education

Certificate of Introduction to U.S. Law from the New York University (2008);
LL.M. degree in Financial Market Law from INSPER (2003);
LL.B. from Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2000).

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > Capital markets

Pinheiro Neto Advogados offers a comprehensive capital markets service with the scale to handle an impressive annual volume of debt and equity deals. In addition to high-profile equity listings, where it represents issuers and underwriters, the group is also active on the debt side, including real estate receivables and agribusiness certificates. A popular choice for investment funds-related advice, the team, which brings together practitioners with strong backgrounds in corporate and M&A, banking and project finance, stands out for its regulatory capabilities. Leading partners such as the highly regarded Henrique Lang, Guilherme Sampaio Monteiro, a key contact for listed companies and their shareholders, Jose Luiz Homem de Mello, and Fernando Zorzo, whose ‘remarkable knowledge and experience‘ in IPOs and follow-on offerings is rated by clients, drive the equity side of the practice. Ricardo Russo, who specialises in public offerings of fixed-income instruments issued by local companies and financial institutions, Tiago A. D. Themudo Lessa , who leads the agribusiness-focused group, and the up-and-coming Rafael Gaspar, whose specialisms include derivatives  and agribusiness securitisation structures, are the names to note for DCM transactions. Counsel Marcos Proença leads the capital markets area in the Rio de Janeiro office, focusing on the issuance of bonds and debentures. Recently promoted counsel Camila Misciasci Derisio and senior associate Paula Rodrigues handle both private placements and public offerings of debt and equity securities in Brazil and abroad.

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