BMA Advogados
Practice area

Restructuring and Insolvency

A high degree of specialization with all the advantages of a full-service firm 

Our Restructuring and Insolvency team has extensive experience in business insolvencies and special situations, representing debtors, shareholders, creditors and investors from Brazil and other countries in litigation, advisory matters, and restructuring negotiations.

We act both in strictly domestic matters and in transnational situations that involve interaction with professionals from other jurisdictions and different legal systems. And our experience has shown us that while a high degree of specialization in insolvency law is a basic requirement, providing legal support in the context of a business in crisis involves various areas of the law. A multidisciplinary approach is needed to achieve the best solutions, which only a full-service law firm with BMA’s range of expertise can deliver.

That is just what we offer to our clients in Restructuring and Insolvency: the experience of a legal boutique with all the advantages of a full-service firm. 

Our team is known for its work in the most complex business restructurings in Brazil

  • Judicial and extrajudicial reorganizations

  • Private restructurings 

  • Distressed M&A 

  • Special situations 

  • Crisis management 

  • Too-big-to-fail cases 

  • Listed companies 

  • Regulated sectors 

  • New money and DIP financing 

  • Wind-downs

  • Bank insolvencies 

  • Transnational insolvencies 

  • Bankruptcies 

  • Strategic consultations and opinions 

  • Debt recovery and asset tracing 

  • Claims analysis and preparation of investment structures 

  • Tax planning 

  • Representation of debts, shareholders, members of management, and investment funds

  • Representation of trustees, court-appointed administrators and insolvency administrator

  • Representation of local and foreign financial institutions, receivables funds, bondholders, hedge funds, debenture holders and debenture trustees 

  • Representation of strategic suppliers 

  • Representation of creditors’ committees and ad hoc groups 

  • Deal counsel in restructurings


Recognition

Latin America Practice of the Year

GRR Awards 2024

GRR 100

Global Restructuring Review

Top Ranked Firm: Bankruptcy / Restructuring

Chambers Brazil

Top Tier Firm: Restructuring and Insolvency

Legal 500

Restructuring Deal of the Year 2024: Samarco

IFLR Americas Awards

Restructuring Deal of the Year 2023: Samarco enforces judicial reorganisation plan

Latin Lawyer

Restructuring Deal of the Year 2020

IFLR Americas Awards

Cross-border Cooperation

Global Restructuring Review Awards 2019

Deal of the Year Awards 2019 - Restructuring of Oi

Latin Lawyer

Professionals

Christopher Zibordi

Partner

Christopher Zibordi

Corporate and M&A, French Desk, Restructuring and Insolvency

55 21 3824-5865 cmz@bmalaw.com.br
Natalia Yazbek

Partner

Natalia Yazbek

Restructuring and Insolvency

55 11 2179-5280 nyo@bmalaw.com.br
Sergio Savi

Partner

Sergio Savi

Arbitration, Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Insolvency

55 21 3824-5865 sergio.savi@bmalaw.com.br
Ana Carolina Villa

Lawyer

Ana Carolina Villa

Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Insolvency

21 3824-5800 acrv@bmalaw.com.br
Gabriel Nobrega Morgado

Lawyer

Gabriel Nobrega Morgado

Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Insolvency

21 3824-1073 gnm@bmalaw.com.br
Gabriela Bellido

Lawyer

Gabriela Bellido

Restructuring and Insolvency

+55 21 3824-5859 gbli@bmalaw.com.br
Laura Cyreno

Lawyer

Laura Cyreno

Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Insolvency

+55 21 3824-5840 lmco@bmalaw.com.br
Victor Baldi

Lawyer

Victor Baldi

Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Insolvency

55 21 3824-1010 vtr@bmalaw.com.br