Souto Correa Advogados

Restructuring and Insolvency; Corporate Law and M&A; and Timberland

Partner

Gilberto Deon Corrêa Junior is one of the firm's founding partners and has extensive experience in sectors like corporate, restructuring and bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, and forestry investments.

He has lectured at universities and graduate schools on corporate law, restructuring, and insolvency, and is the author of several legal articles in these fields.

He was a member of the group of jurists who advised the rapporteur of the Bankruptcy Law project in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, which resulted in the publication of Law No. 11101/2005, which governs judicial and extra judicial reorganizations, and bankruptcy of individual businesspeople and business legal entities. He was also a member of the jurist’s commission formed to advise the Special Commission of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies to issue an opinion on Bill No. 1.572/2001, which institutes the Commercial Code.

World Bank consultant for trainings on restructuring and insolvency conducted in Maputo (Mozambique) and in Luanda (Angola). He acted also as counselor for the government of Angola on best international insolvency practices. Member of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) Member of the Institute of Lawyers of Rio Grande do Sul Member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL), where he is a member of the Latin America Committee Member of the International Bar Association Co-chair of the American Bankruptcy Institute International Committee from March 2015 to February 2018 Former Director of the Federation of Trade Associations and Services of Rio Grande do Sul (FEDERASUL) Former law professor of Commercial Law at the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)

LL.M Master of Laws from the New York University (NYU), 1995 Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), 1993 Bachelor of Law and Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, 1985