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 ‘a dynamic, innovative and collaborative’ approach. The Porto Alegre-based team ‘is extremely technical and committed to the projects it works on’. The firm represents domestic and international creditors and debtors with interests across the country. Founding partner and corporate expert Gilberto Deon Corrêa Júnior leads the team alongside Luis Felipe Spinelli, ‘a great lawyer‘ who is ‘always striving for excellence’. Fernando Pellenz has a good reputation for agribusiness-related restructurings and ‘has an excellent relationship with his clients and always seeks to innovate in his area of expertise’.
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
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Intellectual property
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Environment
- Labour and employment
- Life sciences
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- TMT: Media
- Corporate and M&A
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Transport: Aviation