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Pinheiro Neto Advogados Offices

Pinheiro Neto Advogados
RUA HUNGRIA, 1100
SÃO PAULO, SP 01455-906
Brazil
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Mr João Marcelo Pacheco

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+55 11 3247 8400 [email protected]

Work Department

M&A, Corporate, Private Equity, and Capital Markets

Position

Partner.

Career

João Marcelo specializes in M&A, private equity, corporate law and capital market (CVM) matters, also acting in privatizations and finance transactions. He represents domestic and international clients acting on the buy and sell sides, or as lenders or borrowers, in several complex cases. Among his usual clients are Nippon Steel, Bradesco, the HIG Pátria and Baupost funds, GE, Lyondell Basell, Gulfstream, Bristow Group, IFC, ST Group, etc. João Marcelo worked on the potential acquisition of Braskem by Lyondell Basell; on the privatization (on the sell-side) of CELG-D; on the Usiminas corporate dispute (representing Nippon Steel); on the formation of JV Quod, a credit bureau owned by the country’s five largest banks; on the governance reorganization of Banco 24hs (Tecban) held by the then seven largest banks in the country; on the project finance for GNA (the largest gas-run thermal plant in Latin America), representing lenders IFC and KfW Ipex; and on several M&A, private equity and public tender offering (OPA) deals as well as on advisory issues for publicly-held companies.

International experience: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, USA.

Languages

Portuguese, English, Spanish and German.

Education

MBA in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV);
LL.M. from London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE);
Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP).

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > Corporate and M&A: High-end

Led by the highly regarded Carlos Alberto Moreira Lima Jr, the sizeable corporate and M&A group at Pinheiro Neto Advogados handles a significant volume of large-cap deals on behalf of major multinational and domestic public corporations, privately-held companies, private equity funds and financial investors. The group is equally adept in public and private M&A transactions, and demonstrates strength in cross-jurisdictional mergers, acquisitions, disposals, and joint ventures in a variety of industries, including insurance, infrastructure, agribusiness, energy, life sciences and technology, to name a few. Co-managing partner Fernando Alves Meira possesses an impressive track record in multijurisdictional M&A. Marcelo Viveiros de Moura is especially active in the oil and gas and telecoms industries, while Miguel Tornovsky handles a mix of cross-border deals, corporate reorganisations and PE matters. João Marcelo Pacheco and Joamir Müller Romiti Alves are other names to note for PE and M&A mandates. PE fund managers and corporate clients regularly turn to Eduardo Paoliello Jr. for advice on transactional work. Camila Carvalho Gomes and Tiago Eler Silva handle buy and sell-side instructions in the context of PE and strategic deals in Latin America.

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