Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados

Corporate, Capital Markets, Wealth Planning, M&A and Private Equity, Chemicals And Petrochemicals, Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Pulp And Paper, Construction, Retail And Consumer, Esg And Impact Businesses, Corporate Litigation

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Clarissa Freitas is specialist in corporate law, corporate governance, corporate restructurings, corporate litigation involving administrative proceedings before the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), tender offers, mergers and acquisitions involving private and public companies, and succession planning. She has a special focus in complex transactions and M&As involving publicly-held companies. She is an expert in corporate and regulatory laws and regulations issued by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM). Her practice encompasses giving advice in daily corporate acts and in complex corporate transactions involving publicly and closely-held companies, advising public company’s investor relations areas with their periodic and eventual obligations before the CVM, preparing defenses in administrative proceedings and sanctioning proceedings initiated by the CVM, analyzing and suggesting structures to improve corporate governance of companies, structuring and conducting tender offer proceedings, reviewing contracts and implementing M&A transactions, reviewing shareholders’ agreements, structuring and implementing proceedings of corporate reorganization and individuals’ succession and assets’ protection.

Portuguese and English

Admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association.

Received her LL.B from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, specialization degree in Corporate Law and Capital Markets from Fundação Getulio Vargas and LL.M in Corporate and Commercial Law from London School of Economics and Political Science.