Ms Elisa Rezende > Veirano Advogados > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
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Av. Bartolomeu Mitre
770 – Leblon
22431-004
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Ms Elisa Rezende
Work Department
Banking & Finance; Corporate & Mergers and Acquisitions; Shipping/Maritime & Port
Position
Counsellor
Career
Elisa Rezende has significant experience advising domestic and foreign clients on matters in the banking and finance, capital markets and corporate law areas. She regularly provides counsel to financial institutions, multilateral agencies and international financial institutions, including the International Finance Corporation and the Nordic Investment Bank.
Ms. Rezende handles a wide range of corporate transactions, including loans, syndicated loans and other financing transactions. She also assists with cross-border offerings of debt and equity securities, cross-border securitization transactions, joint venture partnership deals, project finance transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Ms. Rezende represents clients in a variety of industries, including mining, shipping, oil & gas and banking.
From 2006 through 2008, Ms. Rezende worked as an associate in the Miami office of a leading US-based global law firm. She focused her practice in the area of capital markets, where she represented issuers, underwriters and other participants in cross- border offerings of debt and equity securities, including offerings under Rule 144A and Regulation S, private placements and registered offerings with the SEC and the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM).
Ms. Rezende also worked as international associate at a major New York law firm from 2004 through 2005 in the structured finance practice. In this role, she mainly represented financial institutions in structured finance transactions involving Latin American issuers in the banking sector.
Languages
English; Portuguese
Memberships
- Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) – Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
- New York State Bar Association
Education
- LL.M, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2004
- LL.B., Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 1999
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Banking and finance
(Leading associates)Financial institutions, development agencies and major corporate borrowers from a variety of industries regularly turn to Veirano Advogados for assistance with the negotiation of a host of financing agreements. Noted for its ‘highly responsive and pragmatic approach‘, the team is particularly active in high-profile mandates involving project, acquisition and asset finance. Ana Carolina Barretto, who stands out for her experience in project and corporate finance, and João Paulo Servera, a key contact for asset-based lending in the aviation sector, jointly oversee the group. Elisa Rezende is singled out for her involvement in a multitude of domestic and cross-border transactions, including syndicated lending and project finance deals.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Tax > Customs
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Real estate
- City focus - Brasilia > Tax
- TMT: Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition and antitrust
- City focus - Porto Alegre > Dispute resolution
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Projects and infrastructure
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- Transport: Aviation
- Venture capital
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Public law
- City focus - Brasilia > Public law and regulation
- Tax > Tax litigation
- TMT: Media
- Wealth and succession planning
- Compliance
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Intellectual property
- Life sciences
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business