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SÃO PAULO, SP 05419-001
Brazil
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Dra Maria Lopes
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Work Department
Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions
Position
Partner in Demarest’s Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions practice areas.
Career
She is licensed to practice Law in Brazil and Portugal. She has worked at the New York and São Paulo offices of White & Case (2000-2003) and at the Lisbon and São Paulo offices of Cuatrecasas (2003-2018). She has extensive experience advising mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and commercial and corporate law matters, particularly in transactions related to Latin America and Europe. Among her main clients are major companies across numerous sectors, such as hospitality and infrastructure.
Memberships
Maria da Paz is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairperson of the Associates Committee of the Portuguese Chamber of São Paulo.
Education
Maria da Paz holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from Universidade Lusíada, in Lisbon, Portugal, and a master’s degree (LL.M) in Corporate Law and Financial and Capital Markets from Fordham University School of Law (New York, USA).
Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish
Personal
Advised a major European group in the market of business transformation services and information technology in the acquisition of a Portuguese information technology and digital transformation company.
Advised a European technology and legal service provision company in a competitive sale process.
Advised an international investment fund in the acquisition of one of the world’s largest groups of natural slate production and distribution, for the amount of EUR 900 million.
Advised one of the largest European sustainable investment funds in the formation of a joint venture with a European group for the implementation of a project for planting and maintaining eucalyptus farms and natural forests in Brazil.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Compliance
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Tax > Customs
- Insurance
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Venture capital
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Environment
- Public law
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- TMT: Telecoms
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Intellectual property
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Projects and infrastructure
- Tax > Tax litigation
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- Transport: Aviation
- White-collar crime and investigations
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Life sciences
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business