Luis Felipe Spinelli > Souto Correa Advogados > Porto Alegre, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Souto Correa Advogados Offices
AV CARLOS GOMES, 700
13TH ANDAR
PORTO ALEGRE, RS CEP 90480-000
Brazil
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Luis Felipe Spinelli
Work Department
Restructuring and Insolvency; Capital Markets; Corporate Law and M&A; and Wealth and Succession Planning
Position
Partner
Career
Luis Felipe Spinelli has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of Corporate Law and Restructuring and Insolvency, having provided legal counseling to national and international clients in transactions and noteworthy cases during this period, in addition to matters of Estate and Succession Planning.
With a solid academic background, he is a professor of Corporate Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Law School and the author of several books and articles, besides being a speaker in events related to the area.
Languages
Portuguese (native); English, German, and Italian
Education
- Visiting Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht [Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law] (Germany) – 2016
- Doctorate degree in Commercial Law from the University of São Paulo (USP) – 2014
- Master’s degree in Private Law from UFRGS – 2009
- Specialist’s degrees in Corporate Law from UFRGS – 2006
- Bachelor of Laws from UFRGS – 2005
Leisure
Professor of Business Law at UFRGS Law School
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Restructuring and insolvency
Souto Correa Advogados has an ‘excellent’ Porto Alegre-based practice that is praised by debtor and creditor clients for its ‘extreme technical quality’. The ‘well-prepared, structured team’ is well versed in debt restructuring and credit recovery proceedings, as well as bankruptcies and judicial and extrajudicial reorganisations. The team is led by Luis Felipe Spinelli, considered by a client as ‘one of the most complete lawyers in the field of insolvency’, and Gilberto Deon Corrêa Júnior, ‘an excellent negotiator’ who is particularly ‘astute in financial recovery strategies’. Rodrigo Tellechea is another noteworthy practitioner, who assists domestic and international clients in restructurings, insolvencies and corporate reorganisations.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Dispute resolution
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Labour
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Tax
Firm Rankings
- Tax > Customs
- Corporate and M&A: Mid-market
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Intellectual property
- Life sciences
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Environment
- Labour and employment
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- TMT: Media