Corporate and M&A
Our team is able to see beyond the confines of corporate law, calling on exceptional experience to make deals happen and find efficient legal solutions
A reference in Corporate Law and M&A since the firm was founded in 1995, we have played a role in the most significant mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings in Brazil, designing structures and establishing precedents that help shape the Brazilian market. Our multidisciplinary practice within the Corporate and M&A area allows us to offer more intelligent, integrated support to companies and investors, both national and international, in all phases of the business, from structuring projects to going public.
We take the same transversal approach in our work with the firm’s other practice areas, ensuring that our clients find what they need in our full-service firm. We help companies to make deals and to prevent problems, making use of our great experience to understand our clients’ real needs.
Our work with investors and companies of all types and sizes, both public and private, many operating in regulated sectors, has provided us with a well-tuned understanding of the multifaceted Brazilian market, and enables us to combine specialist expertise with a broader view of corporate issues, from routine to the most complex. Our specialized team includes attorneys who have worked in regulatory agencies, investment banks, and foreign law firms, acting in matters ranging from M&A, reorganizations, corporate disputes, commercial contracts, governance and securities regulations.
Our consolidated experience and excellence in the services we provide go hand-in-hand with our ability to innovate and our attention to business dynamics and transformations. Because our focus is always on our clients, we look for personalized, intelligent, and above all efficient solutions, adding value to our clients’ businesses that goes beyond the traditional legal practice.
What we do
- Mergers and acquisitions, public tender offers, IPOs and follow-on offers, leveraged buy-outs, hostile takeovers, distressed asset transactions, structuring of consortiums and joint ventures.
- Legal support for listed companies, including their boards of directors, executive management and advisory committees, in matters involving securities regulations, corporate governance and share transactions; advice on financial and capital markets regulation as a whole, including representation in enforcement proceedings before the CVM and other authorities.
- Negotiation and drafting of corporate and commercial agreements, including share purchase agreements, investment agreements, shareholder agreements, put and call options, memorandums of understanding, term sheets, and confidentiality agreements.
- Business combinations and corporate restructurings and reorganizations, such as mergers, consolidations, stock swap transactions, spin-offs, transformations and other types of corporate restructuring.
- Support for companies and shareholders in relation to shareholder meetings, proxy fights and other corporate events.
- Private equity and venture capital deals, advising enterprises and funds on strategic investments and divestments at all phases of their business.
- Advice to start-up companies and their investors since the early stages of the business and subsequent investment rounds.
- Corporate disputes between shareholders; disputes involving the potential liability of members of management; disputes arising out of mergers, acquisitions, and private equity and venture capital transactions; disputes involving the interpretation and application of business law.
- Stock-based long-term incentive programs for employees, directors and officers, such as stock option, phantom stock and restricted stock unit plans.
Recognition
Professionals
Partner
Paulo Cezar Aragão
China Desk, Corporate and M&A, Dispute Resolution, Private Equity, Privatizations and Concessions, Telecommunications
55 11 2179-4584 pca@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Francisco Antunes Maciel Müssnich (Chico Müssnich)
Corporate and M&A, Dispute Resolution, Private Equity, Sports and Entertainment, Wealth and Succession Planning
55 21 3824-5863 mussnich@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Luiz Antonio de Sampaio Campos
Corporate and M&A, Private Equity
55 21 3824-6043 lac@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Amir Achcar Bocayuva Cunha
Corporate and M&A, Crisis Management, Private Equity, Sports and Entertainment
55 21 3824-5863 abc@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Carlos Frederico Lucchetti Bingemer
China Desk, Construction Projects, Corporate and M&A, Energy, French Desk, Iberian Desk, Oil & Gas
55 21 3824-6043 cfl@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Christopher Zibordi
Corporate and M&A, French Desk, Restructuring and Insolvency
55 21 3824-5865 cmz@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Henrique Beloch
Corporate and M&A, Insurance, Private Equity
55 21 3824-1079 hvb@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Leandro Bittencourt Marcondes
Corporate and M&A, French Desk, Private Equity, Wealth and Succession Planning
55 21 3824-5865 lbm@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Leonardo Carneiro da R. Ramos de Carvalho
Corporate and M&A
55 21 3824-5844 lcr@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Maria Donati
Corporate and M&A, Mineral and Metals Industry
55 11 2179-5280 m.donati@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Monique Mavignier
Corporate and M&A, ESG, Private Equity
55 11 2179-4584 monique@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Pedro Henrique Serqueira
Corporate and M&A, Private Equity
55 11 2179-5272 phs@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Rodrigo de Teive e Argollo Mariani
Corporate and M&A, Oil & Gas
55 21 3824-1079 rta@bmalaw.com.br
Lawyer
Daniel Falcão de Paula Soares
Blockchain and Innovation, Construction Projects, Corporate and M&A
55 21 3824-1010 dfp@bmalaw.com.br
Consultant
Dominique Bétourné Walter
Corporate and M&A, French Desk
55 21 3824-1079 dbw@bmalaw.com.br
Lawyer
Isabella Ardente de Almeida da Rocha
Corporate and M&A, Energy, Oil & Gas
+55 (21) 3824-6073 iar@bmalaw.com.br
Lawyer
Júlia Calgaro Moreira
China Desk, Corporate and M&A, Energy, Oil & Gas
55 21 3824-5785 jcma@bmalaw.com.br
Lawyer
Layse Rhayana Marcelino Dias
Construction Projects, Corporate and M&A
55 11 2179-5262 layse@bmalaw.com.br
Lawyer
Thiago Frazão
Corporate and M&A, Private Equity, Sports and Entertainment
55 11 2179-5252 tls@bmalaw.com.brOther practice areas