Mrs Adriana Pallis > Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

Mrs Adriana Pallis

+55 11 3150-7000 [email protected]

Work Department

Corporate / Capital Markets / M&A and Private Equity / Financial Services / Technology / Telecommunications / Retail and Consumer

Position

Partner

Career

Adriana is a partner of the Corporate area since 2001 and was head of the M&A group from 2015 to 2018. She is now a member of the Board and of the Social Responsibility and Pro Bono committee of the office.

Adriana is a specialist in Corporate Law, corporate governance, securities regulation, and in M&A involving listed and private companies, as well as cross border transactions.

She has recognized experience in structuring and implementation of high complexity corporate reorganizations, equity investments, different acquisition structures and tender offer procedures, as well as in the legal assistance in the representation of companies and investors in administrative proceedings and consultations at the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission).

She also acts in the structuring of businesses and establishment of companies, joint ventures, consortia, associations, and other forms of businesses and in advising on foreign investments in Brazil. She has worked in the most relevant privatization processes in the 90’s, as CPFL, Eletropaulo (both in the energy sector), Vale (mining sector) and Telebrás (Telecom sector).

Languages

Portuguese and English.

Memberships

Admitted to the Brazilian Bar. Member of American Bar Association (ABA).

Education

Received her LL.B from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and postgraduation degree in Corporate Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.