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Pinheiro Guimarães

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Pinheiro Guimarães provides top-notch expertise in high-profile debt and equity capital markets deals. Major listed companies, financial institutions, and investment funds routinely turn to the practice for support in their most significant listings. With extensive experience in acting for both issuers and underwriters, the group’s ‘deep knowledge’ and broad service offering covers cross-border IPOs, secondary offerings, private placements, as well as real estate and agribusiness certificates. The team is led by highly esteemed banking, M&A and capital markets specialists Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães and Francisco José Pinheiro Guimarães, who are based in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo respectively. Senior partner Cristina Tomiyama combines comprehensive knowledge of capital markets regulations with a strong track record in ECM transactions, including IPOs, follow-ons and dual listings. The ’extremely diligent and assertive’ Ivie Moura Alves is particularly skilled in debt offerings, while Bruno Lardosa maintains a broad practice acting for financial institutions, investors, multilaterals, asset managers and large corporations in ECM and DCM deals. The ‘excellent’ Mariana Silveira Martins Jost and the ’very technical‘ Carolina Testoni Alonso Camargo, who excels in asset-backed capital markets transactions, are also part of the core team.

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  • ‘The firm has deep knowledge in the corporate area (public companies) and provides solid advice.’

  • ‘Pinheiro Guimarães has a multidisciplinary team that is technically very good and very efficient, offering excellent cost-benefit ratios.’

  • ‘Partner Ivie Moura Alves is extremely diligent and assertive. Working with Mariana Martins Jost for the first time was also a pleasant surprise. Excellent professional, with a very good writing power and synthesis.’

  • 'Bruno Lardoso and Carolina Testoni Alonso are very technical, close to the client and focused on the success of the deals.'

Key clients

  • Citibank
  • Itaú BBA
  • Credit Suisse
  • BTG Pactual
  • Santander
  • Bradesco BBI
  • Organizações Globo
  • XP Investimentos
  • HSBC
  • Votorantim
  • Rede D'Or
  • JP Morgan
  • B3 – Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão
  • Iopche
  • Neoenergia
  • Enel
  • Suzano Papel e Celulose
  • Pátria Investimentos
  • CTG
  • Diagnósticos da América (DASA)
  • GP Investimentos
  • Banco Safra
  • Klabin
  • Group Boticário
  • International Finance Corporation – IFC
  • Vale
  • Positivo
  • Estapar
  • Sicredi
  • CSN
  • BRFoods
  • UBS BB

Work highlights

  • Acted as counsel to Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras – Eletrobras, as issuer and offeror, on its R$33.6bn global primary and secondary public offering of shares of the common stock.
  • Advising Rede D'Or São Luiz on its R$2.3bn offering of unsecured and non-convertible debentures.
  • Advising Cálamo Distribuidora de Produtos de Beleza on its R$2bn issuance and public offering of non-convertible debentures.

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Plinio Pinheiro Guimarães N., Francisco José Pinheiro Guimarães, Paula Pessôa, Ivie Moura Alves