Corporate / M&A / Infrastructure

Partner – Corporate / M&A / Infrastructure

Rodrigo is one of the founding partners and current managing partners of Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados. A member of Dentons’ Global Board and Global Advisory Committee, Rodrigo is also Dentons´ Private Equity and Venture Capital Global Sector Leader.

With over 28 years of experience, his practice is focused on Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity Investments, Project Finance, Capital Markets and Real Estate.

He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions transactions, project finance and complex commercial transactions around the world for national and international companies and groups from a wide range of industries, particularly in health care, education, infrastructure among many others.

His international legal experience includes Proskauer Rose and Cleary Gottlieb, both in New York - USA. Rodrigo holds a LLM at Georgetown University and is a member of the Georgetown Law Center, Latin American Alumni Advisory Board, 2022.

As a result of his extensive experience, Rodrigo is recognized as one of the leading Corporate and M&A lawyers in Brazil by several industry rankings such as Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and Latin Lawyer.

Portuguese and English.

Dentons’ Global Board and Global Advisory Committee; Dentons’ Regional Leader for Latin America and the Caribbean; Lawyer Licensed in New York – New York State Bar Association; Fundação Estudar Scholar; Endeavor Mentor; Member of the American Bar Association – ABA; Member of the International Bar Association – IBA; Member of the Georgetown´s Law Center Latin American Alumni Advisory Board, 2022; Personal & Professional Coach.

Fundação Dom Cabral, 2009, Senior Management Development Program; Georgetown University, 2004, LL.M.; Fundação Estudar Scholar, 2003; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2001, Specialization in Tax Law; Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 1998, Bachelor of Law (JD).

Rodrigo is co-editor of “International Business Transactions with Brazil”, a book published in the United States by Juris Publishing, Inc. in 2008, and author of several essays and publications on corporate law.