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Mr Rafael Gimenes

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Work Department

Corporate & Mergers and Acquisitions and Compliance & Investigations

Position

Partner

Career

Rafael Gimenes is a partner in the Firm’s São Paulo office who specializes in Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions, bringing significant experience counseling mid-cap clients and private equity investors across a broad range of industries. His practice focuses on international clients doing private acquisitions or implementing new projects, which includes advising clients on start-ups, joint ventures, research and development and cost planning. Mr. Gimenes also has experience with financing transactions including traditional project finance, bridge loans, and accession of Brazilian entities and assets to worldwide credit facilities. He also regularly counsels clients facing turning point issues such as business restructuring, divestitures, negotiation with creditors, business shut downs, and in-house fraud.

Clients retain Mr. Gimenes because of his ability to effectively provide them with sophisticated solutions designed to address clients’ business goals, both at inception of a particular project and in the long term. Working for multiple years with companies whose products and services are complex and cutting-edge, Mr. Gimenes is adept at organizing multidisciplinary legal teams to deliver strong and long lasting results for clients. He represents mid-cap companies in the hardware, software, professional services, chemical, mining, pharmaceutical and publishing industries and regularly advises industry innovators from the United States, Australia, Chile, Australia, France and the Netherlands.

Early career experience for Mr. Gimenes includes working as an international associate at a major regional United States law firm where he traveled extensively throughout the country to meet clients and expand the firm’s business and local legal knowledge.

Languages

English, Portuguese and Spanish

Memberships

American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM), São Paulo
British Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil (BRITCHAM)
German-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK)
International Bar Association (IBA), Latin American Regional Forum, Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law Sections
The Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Brazil
World Services Group (WSG)

Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) – São Paulo

Education

Maritime Law, Tulane University Law School and the Aegean Institute of Law of the Sea and Maritime Law, Greece, 2007
LL.M, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI, 2000