Pinheiro Neto Advogados

M&A, Corporate, Private Equity, and Capital Markets

Partner.

João Marcelo specializes in M&A, private equity, corporate law and capital market (CVM) matters, also acting in privatizations and finance transactions. He represents domestic and international clients acting on the buy and sell sides, or as lenders or borrowers, in several complex cases. Among his usual clients are Nippon Steel, Bradesco, the HIG Pátria and Baupost funds, GE, Lyondell Basell, Gulfstream, Bristow Group, IFC, ST Group, etc. João Marcelo worked on the potential acquisition of Braskem by Lyondell Basell; on the privatization (on the sell-side) of CELG-D; on the Usiminas corporate dispute (representing Nippon Steel); on the formation of JV Quod, a credit bureau owned by the country’s five largest banks; on the governance reorganization of Banco 24hs (Tecban) held by the then seven largest banks in the country; on the project finance for GNA (the largest gas-run thermal plant in Latin America), representing lenders IFC and KfW Ipex; and on several M&A, private equity and public tender offering (OPA) deals as well as on advisory issues for publicly-held companies.

International experience: Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, USA.

Portuguese, English, Spanish and German.

MBA in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV); LL.M. from London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE); Bachelor's Degree in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP).