About

Founded in 1985, Pentágono S.A. Distribuidora de Títulos e Valores Mobiliários – more commonly referred to as Pentágono – is a highly specialised securities distributor that provides bonds and securities brokerage, alongside offering custodial trustee services. Since 2010 Nathalia Machado Loureiro has headed the Pentágono legal team, which is closely aligned to the company’s subordinated debt operations and more complex project finance structuring activities. Supporting her in the legal team are the experienced in-house lawyers Julia Siggia Amorim and Francisca Cândida Reis, both of whom joined the company in 2015. Recent activities the team has participated in include the renegotiating a debt for Usinminas, one of the largest producers of steel in the Americas, and helping Hermes Pardini, a medical laboratory company, raise R$210m through the issue of debentures.