Castro Barros Advogados
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Castro Barros Advogados’ bankruptcy and restructuring practice is firmly positioned in both the transactional and contentious spheres, advising domestic and international clients on distressed acquisitions, judicial restructurings, and credit recovery. The Rio de Janeiro-based team is jointly led by Alexandre Catramby, who regularly assists creditors with bankruptcy and court-supervised restructurings, Rodrigo Gonçalves Lima de Mattos, a name to note for credit recovery cases against debtors in financial distress, Olympio De Carvalho E Silva, who is experienced in judicial restructuring proceedings involving the shipping sector, and José Augusto Leal, who excels in insolvency and restructuring cases.
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Key clients
- Haitong Banco de Investimentos do Brasil
- HP Financial Services
Work highlights
Defended Haitong Bank from an attempt by Unigel Group to submit the former’s +R$30m credit to its court-supervised extrajudicial restructuring plan, in an unprecedented dispute about the nature of interest rate derivative contracts, and up to when a debtor can include already existing creditors in such a proceeding.


