Commercial Contracts; Corporate & Mergers and Acquisitions; ESG - Environmental, Social and Governance

Partner

Augusto Cesar Barbosa de Souza specializes in corporate law and M&A and currently heads the Corporate and M&A practice in the firm. He counts on extensive experience in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate and financial restructurings as well as in arbitration involving corporate disputes. Augusto has also worked extensively on corporate and contractual matters in several industries, including the pharmaceutical, information technology, consumer products, transport, and petrochemical sectors.

Augusto along with his team provide advice on both domestic and cross-border share and asset acquisitions and divestments in Brazil. He and his team perform among other tasks preliminary due diligence, draft and negotiate acquisition documents, investment, joint venture and shareholders agreements, and also dedicate special attention to post-acquisition work by providing general legal counseling throughout the integration process.

Clients see in Augusto consistent ability to use his substantial experience to advise and direct solutions to the client's issues; "he has the experience and business sense to provide advice focused on what is significant, cutting through the clutter of the situation".

Private and public companies from Brazil, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Belgium, Austria and the Netherlands count as some of the main clients that rely on Augusto's advice.

English, Portuguese and German

Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) - Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

LL.M, College of Law of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, in Munich, Germany, 1999 Supplementary course in Corporate Law and Capital Markets, Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC), São Paulo, 1997 LL.B, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), 1996