Brazil: Private Funds
Promising long-term GDP growth rates, maturing capital markets and a government that is less hostile in its attitude towards private investment has enabled Brazil’s private funds sector to thrive. We list nine of the country’s most talented private funds lawyers.
Two names features from Pinheiro Guimarães – Advogados. Francisco Pinheiro Guimaraes N and Ivie Moura Alves both receive praise for their expertise in advising fund administrators, managers, consultants and investors.
At Trench Rossi e Watanabe Advogados is the “first-rate” managing partner, Claudia Farkouh Prado. She is joined by the Nazir Takkiedine who is also highly regarded for his transactional practice.
Nei Schilling Zelmanovits of Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados is considered a “leader in the field”. At Pinheiro Neto Advogados, Alexandre Bertoldi is singled out for his foreign investment and financing work.
At Lefosse Advogados, in cooperation with Linklaters, Carlos Barbosa Mello is “an impressive lawyer”. Veirano Advogados’s Robson Goulart Barreto is “first-rate” and Carlos Jose Rolim de Mello at Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados is described as “a highly respected practitioner”.