Mattos Filho

Mattos Filho

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Pablo Sorj

Pablo Sorj

Mattos Filho, Brazil

Work Department

Infrastructure & Energy; Electric Power; Project Finance; Oil and Gas; Mining; Shipping & Ports; Finance; Energy Transition

Position

Partner

Career

As a partner at Mattos Filho, Pablo Sorj represents companies, investment funds and financial institutions with a wide range of transactions in the infrastructure and energy sectors. He advises on transactions concerning project finance, structured finance, and acquisition finance and assists with purchases and sales of infrastructure and energy assets.

Pablo has worked on over twenty ‘Deal of the Year’ transactions. He is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer in Project Finance by Chambers and Partners (Band 1) and Who’s Who Legal (Thought Leaders: Global Elite Project Finance), as well as in Projects and Infrastructure by the Legal 500 (Leading Lawyer) and IFLR (Market Leader).

Pablo previously worked at New York’s Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a foreign attorney.

Languages

Portuguese and English 

Memberships

He is currently the chairman of the Brazilian Bar Association’s (OAB-RJ) Project Finance Committee, co-president of the Stanford Law School Alumni Association in Brazil, and sector vice-president of the Brazilian Mediation and Arbitration Center (CBMA).

Education

Bacharel em Direito, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ) Mestre em Direito (LL.M.), Stanford Law School (EUA) MBA Executivo, Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais (Ibmec)

Mentions

Brazil

Banking and finance

Energy and natural resources • Brazil

Electricity (and renewable energy)

Brazil

Projects and infrastructure

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