Mr Mauro Cesar Leschziner > Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados Offices
Ed. Seculum II - Rua José Gonçalves de Oliveira, nº 116, 5th floor
Itaim Bibi
São Paulo
01453-050
Brazil
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Mr Mauro Cesar Leschziner
Work Department
M&A and private equity / Corporate / Restructuring and insolvency / Contracts and complex negotiations / Automotive / Education / Agribusiness / Technology / Retail and consumer / ESG and impact businesses
Position
Partner
Career
Mauro is one of our senior partners in the M&A and Private Equity Group. He has represented local and foreign clients in their investments in and divestments of Brazil. In addition to regularly providing legal advice on complex transactions for some of the country’s most active private equity firms, Mauro is the legal advisor for large Brazilian and foreign corporations, both privately and publicly owned, in their M&A activities and general corporate and contractual needs. Mauro has actively represented clients in different areas, such as fertilizers and agribusiness, healthcare, technology (including fintechs), education and consumer retail. Recently, he has also represented clients in some of the most significant real estate projects in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
As part of his work, he advises clients in complex M&A and private equity transactions, negotiations of strategic contracts and disputes, and foreign investments in Brazil. He has also represented large Brazilian families in the succession planning to the next generations.
Languages
Portuguese and English.
Memberships
Admitted to the Brazilian Bar (OAB) and New York Bar Association. Member of International Bar Association (IBA)
Education
Received his LL.B. from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and LL.M. from Cornell University.
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Corporate and M&A: High-end
Offering legal support to an impressive client roster comprising Brazilian and international companies, financial investors, governmental entities, pension and investment funds, Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados excels in big-ticket transactions at the domestic and international level. Its varied workload features public M&A, PE deals, joint ventures, asset divestments and privatisations in a wide range of industries, including financial services, retail, education, agribusiness, mining, telecoms and energy. The practice is under the joint leadership of Arthur Bardawil Penteado, who handles a combination of domestic and cross-border M&A, PE and corporate restructuring matters, and Guilherme Bueno Malouf, whose expertise covers share and asset deals, mergers, joint ventures and PE investments. Corporate law, governance and M&A specialist Adriana Pallis is a key point of contact for public listed and private companies, which also regularly turn to Mauro Cesar Leschziner for legal advice. Ivandro Maciel Sanchez Junior heads up the Latin American and Iberian desks, assisting several Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American clients with their investments in Brazil.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Labour and employment
- City focus - Brasilia > Litigation
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Transport: Aviation
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Wealth and succession planning
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Compliance
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- TMT: Telecoms
- Venture capital
- Life sciences
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- City focus - Brasilia > Tax