Cescon Barrieu

Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Partner

Marcelo is a partner in Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions practice areas.

He has experience advising financial institutions, corporations and investment funds on initial public offerings and follow-ons (IPOs and Follow-ons), private and public issuances of debentures, securitization, notes and hybrids/convertibles. He also represents local and foreign companies in mergers and acquisitions, asset sales, joint ventures, and other investment transactions involving various industries. As of 2022, he started representing sport associations and investors in connection with transactions involving soccer corporations.

Portuguese and English

Author of articles and book chapters, among them: (a) O dividendo mínimo obrigatório e o regime de proteção do acionista minoritário. Revista Síntese Direito Empresarial, v. 11, p. 86, 2018; (b) Uma leitura hodierna do instituto do capital social. São Paulo: Quartier Latin, 2019 In Sociedades Anônimas, Mercados de Capitais e Outros Estudos: homenagem a Luiz Leonardo Cantidiano.

Author of the Master's thesis "Direito de escolha da forma de participação no lucro social: uma proposta alternativa ao dividendo mínimo obrigatório", which was awarded as one of the best papers approved by FGV in 2021.

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Master of Laws (LL.M.) (Business Law) – Fundação Getúlio Vargas - São Paulo Law School (FGV/SP)