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Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados
RUA SÃO TOMÉ 86
17TH FLOOR
SÃO PAULO, SP, 04551-080
Brazil

Work Department

Corporate / M&A

Position

Partner – Corporate / M&A

Career

Bruna Gobbi became a partner of the Corporate and M&A practice at Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados in 2018.

With 16 years of experience, Bruna has vast expertise in corporate and M&A matters, assisting domestic and international clients. In the last 11 years of her practice, she has been focusing on roll up acquisitions/consolidation processes for the largest private equity funds in Brazil, specially in the infrastructure, education and health care sectors. Bruna’s international experience includes working at Mayer Brown and Thompson and Knight L.L.P

Bruna worked for several high profile clients during her career, such as Pátria Investimentos and Notre Dame Intermédica.

Languages

Portuguese and English.

Memberships

  • Brazilian Co-Head of Dentons Women Lead initiative.

Education

  • London School of Economics and Political Science, 2010, Master of Laws (LLM), International Business Law;
  • Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2006, Bachelor of Laws (J.D.).

Lawyer Rankings

Brazil > Corporate and M&A: High-end

(Next Generation Partners)

Bruna Gobbi – Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados

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.