Latin America - Brazil

BMA Advogados

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BMA Advogados has a strong bench of partners and associates with good credentials across all areas of real estate. Operating from offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the practice has established a good reputation in key asset classes, including shopping centres, industrial facilities, logistics, and office developments. Practitioners regularly handle complex real estate transactions and development projects that involve various aspects of corporate, M&A, tax, and capital markets law. Clients include major domestic and international developers, corporate leaseholders and investment funds. Cristiana Moreira, a key contact for major real estate developers in Brazil, predominantly advises on the structuring of development projects, transactions and construction contracts. Guilherme Zoghbi Ayala handles contractual and transactional matters in this space, while Gustavo Maia do Nascimento is the go-to lawyer for many domestic and international clients in sophisticated real estate deals, including financings, acquisitions of land and implementation of large-scale projects.

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Key clients

  • BTG
  • BR Properties
  • RB Capital
  • Goodman
  • Performance
  • Opportunity
  • Core Real Estate
  • São Carlos / Best Center
  • BHG
  • AgroSB
  • Inova
  • XP Asset
  • Vinci Partners
  • Ontex
  • Rede D’Or
  • CBF
  • BHP

Work highlights

  • Advised Confederação Brasileira de Futebol on the acquisition of land and execution of construction agreements for the development of training centres in 12 Brazilian cities.
  • Assisted an investment fund managed by Jive Asset Management in the acquisition of 45 real estate assets.
  • Advised Iguatemi on the acquisition of an additional 36% stake in Shopping JK Iguatemi, through the purchase, by its subsidiary Mutuall Soluções Financeiras, of all the shares in Adeoti Empreendimentos Imobiliários.

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Cristiana Moreira, Guilherme Ayala, Gustavo Maia do Nascimento