With a strong following of multilateral organisations, development banks, and international financial institutions, Dias Carneiro Advogados handles a host of cross-border financing deals, including acquisition, corporate and trade finance. The group is particularly active in the financing of energy projects, with a special emphasis on the renewable segment, but also possesses experience in project finance mandates involving the agribusiness, sanitation, mining and telecoms sectors. Practice head Thiago Vallandro Flores acts for an array of lenders and borrowers in project finance and debt restructuring. Paulo Leme focuses on the financing of energy and infrastructure projects, while Gustavo Junqueira's areas of expertise cover project, export, acquisition and corporate finance.
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‘Expertise, agility and market knowledge.’
'Personal relationships, fully understands the client, solution-oriented in negotiations, clear responses regarding legal questions and their application in Brazilian market, trustworthy.'
Key clients
- Inter-American Development Bank / Inter-American Investment Corporation
- China Development Bank Corporation
Work highlights
- Advised Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) as lender of a $50m facility to Sociedade de Abastecimento de Água e Saneamento S/A-Sanasa, a joint stock company with open capital, with the municipal government as the majority shareholder and responsible for water supply, collection, removal and treatment of domestic sewage in the municipality of Campinas.
- Advised an ad hoc group of noteholders led by a steerco consisting of Albacore Capital Group, Palmerston Capital Management and Robus Capital Management on the refinancing of a super senior revolving credit facility in the amount of $11m involving existing Dollar notes maturing in 2025, and existing Euro notes maturing in May 2023 in the amount of €250m.