Mr Marcos Lopes Prado > Cescon Barrieu > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Cescon Barrieu Offices
Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima
949 - Pinheiros
SAO PAULO - SP
05426 - 100
Brazil
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Mr Marcos Lopes Prado
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner
Career
He represents a number of entrepreneurs, developers, builders, brokers, asset managers, family companies (holdings / family offices), shopping center managers, hotels and condominiums, logistics and industrial, banks, financial institutions, multinational corporations, publicly listed companies, real estate investment funds and investors, in some of the most complex and innovative real estate transactions in Brazil, involving:- due diligence, sale and purchase, surface rights, usufruct, easement, expropriation, donation, exchange, transfer in lieu of payment, lease, built to suit, sale and lease back, lease and rural partnership, construction, incorporation, condominiums, land parcelling, securitizations of real estate receivables, real estate investment funds, loans with property collateral (mortgages and fiduciary alienation), public infrastructure projects, property regularization, land and urban planning of industrial plants, logistic centers and acquisition of rural lands by foreigners, among others.
Languages
Portuguese and English
Memberships
Member of the Brazilian Institute of Real Estate Law (IBRADIM).
Member of the GRI Real Estate Brazil.
Education
- Law – Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- Specialist in Contractual Law – Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)
- Specialist in Urban Law – Sociedade Brasileira de Direito Público (SBDP)
- Specialist in Notarial Law and Real Estate Registry Law – Instituto de Registro Imobiliário do Brasil (IRIB)
Leisure
Lecturer, professor, guest examiner of professional master’s degrees at the FGV-SP and co-author of several Real Estate Law works. Indicated by international publications “Chambers Latin America – Latin America’s Leading Lawyers for Business”, in 2012-20, “Legal 500”, in 2012-20, “Latin Lawyer 250”, “Best Lawyers”, “Leaders League” and “Análise Advocacia 500”, in 2018-20.”
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Real estate
(Leading individuals)Cescon Barrieu fields a versatile real estate practice with an impressive track record in complex transactions. This includes advice with a heavy corporate angle, such as deals involving joint ventures and special purpose vehicles, as well as investment funds and capital markets-related matters. Major domestic and international investors and developers turn to the group for assistance in mandates concerning key urban and rural asset classes, including residential, retail, commercial offices, and logistics sites. With extensive experience in real estate transactions and the development of residential and commercial projects, São Paulo-based Marcos Lopes Prado leads the team with Daniel Ribeiro Pettersen in Belo Horizonte. Recently promoted partner Vinicius Martins advises on the purchase and sale of real estate assets, leasing agreements, land use issues and zoning compliance. Ivana Bomfim, who was previously at Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados, joined in October 2023 to co-head the real estate team.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- City focus - Salvador > Leading firms
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Natural resources and regulation
- TMT: Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition and antitrust
- City focus - Brasilia > Government relations
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Projects and infrastructure
- Transport: Shipping
- Compliance
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Dispute resolution
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Labour and employment
- Real estate
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Venture capital
- Environment
- Public law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- TMT: Media
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- White-collar crime and investigations
- TMT: Telecoms