Dra Anne Chang > Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados > São Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados Offices
RUA SÃO TOMÉ 86
17TH FLOOR
SÃO PAULO, SP, 04551-080
Brazil
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Dra Anne Chang
Work Department
Corporate M&A / Technology / Digital Law
Position
Partner – Corporate M&A / Technology / Digital Law
Career
Anne Chang is a partner in Technology and Digital Law at Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados. Her experience includes working in large law firms and renowned investment consultancies. She is currently director of the Institute of Technology & Innovation of Berkeley Global Society and co-author of books and articles, including the whitepaper “Blockchain and Health IT: Algorithms, Privacy and Data” (MIT Experimental Learning, 2016), a pioneer in blockchain and health, and a resident mentor at Eretz.Bio (Einstein accelerator), B2Mamy (focused on women) and ABStartups.
With more than 15 years of experience, she focuses his practice on sectors such as Technology, Virtual Currencies (Cryptocurrencies), as well as Technology Investments and Startups.
Anne is an associate specialist in M&A and Investments, graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP) and LLM from the University of California – Berkeley and is specialist in Financial Markets from the London School of Economics – LSE.
Languages
Portuguese and English.
Education
- Universidade de São Paulo – USP, 2007, Bachelor of Law;
- Universidade da Califórnia – Berkeley, 2010, LLM;
- London School of Economics – LSE, 2012, Financial Services and Market Regulation.
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Corporate and M&A: High-end
A host of domestic and international clients turn to Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados for assistance with big-ticket M&A, most notably in the financial services and private equity spaces. Typical instructions for the ‘team of extremely qualified professionals’ also include business transactions in the retail, healthcare, and media and entertainment sectors. Moreover, its strategic alliance with international firm Dentons and ‘deep understanding of local laws and business practices’ in Brazil make it well placed to handle consequential cross-border matters. The practice is under the leadership of founders Frederico Buosi, who draws on his international background to advise on multijurisdictional investments, mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures, and Rodrigo Vilardo Vella, the main point of contact for private equity mandates. Co-head of the firm’s compliance practice for the Latin American and Caribbean regions, Denise Chachamovitz Leão de Salles assists clients from the life sciences, financial services, infrastructure, real estate and energy sectors with transactional and corporate law matters. Gabriella Maranesi Najjar focuses on public M&A, while Bruna Gobbi has a strong track record in roll-up acquisitions for large private equity funds. Other key names to note include recently promoted partners Fernanda Le Tassinari and Fernando Henrique Lopes; Anne Chang, who joined from Halabi e Chang Advogados in October 2022 to strengthen the firm’s technology and digital law offering; and counsel Vitor Clark Nunes.