Pinheiro Neto Advogados

Banking & Financial Regulation, Investment Funds & Structured Finance, and Insurance & Reinsurance

Partner.

Joined Pinheiro Neto in 1991 as a trainee and became partner of the Corporate area in 2001. During his career joined Boston University LLM Program and subsequently worked for Sullivan and Cromwell as foreign associate (1996-1998).

Bruno Balduccini advises domestic and international clients on banking, payments, insurance, M&A, foreign exchange, foreign trade matters, virtual assets and tokenization. Bruno concentrates his practice on the advisory and transactional needs of financial payment institutions and virtual asset providers. With a strong presence in the development of new banking products and solutions involving e-wallets, credit cards, payments and crypto assets, he is also seasoned in open banking and instant payment matters. Bruno has advised on the vast majority of M&A transactions involving financial institutions, startups and payment institutions. He actively participated in the drafting and improvement of the rules for payment systems, credit fintechs (SCDs and SEPs), foreign exchange and open banking laws. At the firm, he set up the program for acceleration of startups and fintechs, helping to create new technologies for the financial and payment environments to foster the startup ecosystem and attract investments.

Portuguese, English and Italian.

Lawyers Institute of São Paulo (IASP): Chair of the Banking Law Committee.

LL.M. - Law, Boston University (USA) - 1997; Bachelor's Degree - Law, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) - 1992.