Alexandre Focesi Galvão graduated in Law from pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2013), and is specialist in Business Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – São Paulo.

His practices comprise debt restructuring, judicial restructuring and bankruptcy.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Amanda de Cássia Tannous Pires graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (2015).

Her practices comprise debt restructuring and judicial restructuring.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo and Brazilian Bar Association, Goiás.

Languages: Portuguese.

Ana Cláudia Rennó graduated in Law from Universidade de São Paulo – USP (1998), holds an LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law from the University of London, and is specialist in Tax Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP/COGEAE).

Her practices comprise the resolution of civil, commercial and corporate sophisticate disputes, arbitration and dispute prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese, English and French.

Ariane de Souza Cruciol graduated in Law from Universidade Estadual de Londrina (2016).

Her practices comprise debt restructuring and judicial restructuring.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Bárbara Pessoa Ramos graduated in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2009), is specialist in Brazilian Civil Law Procedure from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC/SP (2013) and studied Corporate Law at Instituto Internacional de Ciências Sociais – IICS (2014) and Corporate Reorganizations at Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV (2015).

Her practices comprise specialized civil litigation matters, with emphasis on Debt Restructuring, Judicial Recovery, Bankruptcy, Corporate Conflicts, Debt Securities, as well as in litigation prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Beatriz Delácio Gnipper graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2012), and is specialist in Civil Procedure Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.

Her practices comprise Debt Restructuring, Judicial Restructuring, Bankruptcy.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Daniel Leal de Barros Lajst graduated in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2016).

His practices comprise resolution of civil, commercial and corporate sophisticate disputes, and dispute prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Daniela Alves da Cunha graduated in Law from Universidade Cândido Mendes (2011).

Her practices comprise Debt Restructuring, Judicial Restructuring, Bankruptcy.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Legal Mediator – registered at the National Board of Mediators at Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo (CNM-TJ/SP).

Felipe dos Santos Lopes graduated in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2013), and is specialist in Consumer and Contract Law, both from the Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (GVlaw).

His practices comprise insolvency procedures, resolution of civil, commercial and corporate sophisticate disputes and dispute prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Giovani Carascosa Ferro graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2016).

His practices comprise debt restructuring, judicial restructuring, bankruptcy, banking, corporate, mergers and acquisitions.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Giuseppe Marino Filho graduated in Law from Universidade Anhanguera (2012), and is specialist in Civil Procedural Law from the Escola Paulista de Direito (EPD).

His practices comprise the resolution of civil, commercial and corporate sophisticate disputes and dispute prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

João Ricardo Pacca graduated in Law from Universidade de São Paulo – USP (2010).

His practices comprise debt restructuring, judicial restructuring, bankruptcy, and dispute prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Lais Nicole Luizetti graduated in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2016).

Her practices comprise Debt Restructuring, Judicial Restructuring and Bankruptcy.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Lucas Rodrigues do Carmo graduated in Law from Faculdade de Direito de São Bernardo do Campo – FDSBC (2009) and is a specialist in Brazilian Civil Procedure from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP-COGEAE).

His practices comprise insolvency procedures, resolution of civil, commercial and corporate sophisticate disputes and dispute prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo

Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Luciana de Godoy Penteado Gattaz is graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2010), is specialist in Civil Liability from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – Escola de Direito de São Paulo (2014) and is currently attending a Master Degree in Commercial Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (to be concluded in 2017)

Her practices comprise Debt Restructuring, Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo

Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish

Luiz José Martins Servantes é bacharel em Direito pela Faculdade de Direito de Presidente Prudente – Instituição Toledo de Ensino (2004) e possui especialização em Contratos pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC/COGEAE).

Atua nas áreas de Recuperação Judicial, Falências, resolução de disputas cíveis, comerciais e societárias complexas e na prevenção de litígios.

Inscrito na Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, Seção de São Paulo.

Idiomas: Português e Inglês.

Marco Antônio Carvalho e Faria is graduated in law from Centro Universitário do Rio Grande do Norte – UNIRN (2013), is specialist in Maritime Law from Universidade do Estado do Rio Janeiro – UERJ (2015) and is currently attending a post-graduate degree in Corporate Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV Direito SP.

His practice comprises debt restructuring, banking, corporate and mergers and acquisitions.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Publications:

• Dec. 8.465/2015: Promotion of arbitration involving the Public Administration in the port sector (co-author), published in Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação, vol. 48/2016, p. 167-183, January/March. 2016

Mariana Tiemi Kinjo graduated in Law from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2015).

Her practices comprise dispute resolution.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish

Patrícia Fernandes da Silva graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2016).

Her practices comprise debt restructuring, judicial restructuring, and bankruptcy.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Pedro Henrique Nucci Trellese is graduated in law from Law School of Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2012) and is currently obtaining his Postgraduate Degree in Corporate Law from Law School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (GVLaw).

His practices comprise corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, debt restructuring and banking.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Priscila Oliveira Prado Faloppa graduated in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2013).

Her practices comprise specialized civil litigation matters, with emphasis on Debt Restructuring, Judicial Recovery, Bankruptcy, Corporate Conflicts, Debt Securities, as well as in litigation prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese, English and French.

Rafael Maziteli Trindade Teodoro graduated in Law from Escola de Direito de São Paulo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV Direito SP (2015).

His practice comprises debt restructuring, banking, corporate and mergers and acquisitions.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Through his 12 years of career, Renato worked with complex litigation, corporate law, M&A and debt restructuring. His career is divided working in big law firms and as in-house counsel of multinational companies and big Brazilian conglomerates.

He has large experience in corporate law, contracts and debt restructuring. Excellent negotiator with deep knowledge of the daily operations of big companies, able to understand the challenges of the business world, working either with the company administration or shareholders, providing advice, avoiding and solving conflicts in the decision making process.

Working as head of the Legal Department of the investment division of a very important Brazilian infrastructure company, was in charge, at the time, of the biggest judicial reorganization in Brazil, restructuring more than R$ 12 Billion in debt, coordinating the negotiations with international creditors. He also oversaw the planning and filling of judicial reorganization process in 3 other countries, including, USA, Uruguay and BVI.

He obtained his bachelor degree in Law from Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas – FMU (2004), his LLM in corporate law from Insper – Instituto de Pesquisa (2012) and LLM in Business Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law with a Certificate in Business Administration pela Kellogg School of Management (2017).

Languages: English and Spanish.

Stefan Lourenço de Lima is graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2010) and is specialist in Corporate Finance and Investment Banking (2012) and Financial Instruments and Risk Management (2014), both from Fundação Instituto de Administração – FIA.

His practices comprise debt restructuring, judicial restructuring, banking, capital markets, corporate and mergers and acquisitions.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

He holds Certificação Profissional ANBIMA – Série 20.

Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Publications:

• Fundos de Investimento e sua Utilização em Recuperação Judicial. Aspectos Relevantes (co-author), published in Revista de Direito Bancário e do Mercado de Capitais: RDB, v. 16, n. 60, p. 205-221, April/June. 2013.
• Aquisição das Próprias Quotas por Sociedade Limitada: Um Conflito Desnecessário (co-author), published in Sociedade Limitada Contemporânea. São Paulo: Quartier Latin, 2013, v. 1, p. 155-166.
• Garantias em Operações de Project Finance nos Setores de Infraestrutura: O Papel dos Covenants, published in Revista de Finanças Aplicadas, v.1. 2014.
• A Claúsula de Earn-out nos Contratos de Fusões e Aquisições, published in Temas Relevantes de Direito Empresarial. 1ed. São Paulo: Editora Lumen Juris, 2014.
• Empréstimos sindicalizados: da estruturação ao gerenciamento de risco, published in Revista de Direito Bancário e do Mercado de Capitais: RDB, v. 17, n. 66, p. 13-32, october/december. 2014.
• A necessária reforma da legislação dos regimes especiais e o devido processo legal (co-author), published in Migalhas in February 12, 2014.
• Collaborator in the publication of Doing Business 2015: Going Beyond Efficiency from World Bank.
• Os Fundos de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios como Estratégia de Funding na Atividade Empresária (co-author), published in Finanças Corporativas: Aspectos Jurídicos e Estratégicos. 1ed.São Paulo: Atlas, 2016, 1ed. São Paulo: Atlas, 2016, v. 1, p. 515-532.
• Mergers & Acquisitions – Brazil. Getting the Deal Through (co-author), v. 1, p. 52-57, 2013.
• Mergers & Acquisitions – Brazil. Getting the Deal Through (co-author), v. 1, p. 54-59, 2014.
• Mergers & Acquisitions – Brazil. Getting the Deal Through (co-author), v. 1, p. 43-47, 2015.

Stefanie Moreira Vicente Ferraz graduated in Law from Universidade de São Paulo – USP (2009), and is specialist in Civil Litigation Law from the Escola de Direito de São Paulo (FGV).

Her practices comprise the resolution of civil, commercial and corporate sophisticate disputes, judicial restructuring, arbitration and dispute prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese, English and French.

Thaís Regina Henrique Francesconi graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC-SP (2008) and is specialist in Corporate Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – GVlaw (2013) and in Constitutional Law from the Coordenadoria Geral de Especialização, Aperfeiçoamento e Extensão da PUC-SP – COGEAE (2011). Currently holds Master Degree in Civil Litigation Law in PUC-SP.

Her practices comprise debt restructuring, judicial restructuring, bankruptcy and resolution of civil, commercial and corporate sophisticate disputes.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Thaiza Cristina de Oliveira graduated in law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2017).

Her practices comprise specialized civil litigation matters, with emphasis on Debt Restructuring, Judicial Recovery, Bankruptcy, Corporate Conflicts, Debt Securities, as well as in litigation prevention.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Language: Portuguese

Joel Bastos has vast experience acquired in the largest and most complex debt restructuring cases in Brazil, having advised debtors, creditors and investors in the restructuring of debts, court-supervised as well as out-of-court reorganizations and bankruptcies.

Throughout more than 25 years of practice, Bastos has assisted clients in complex litigation matters involving commercial and corporate law, energy and telecommunications law, banking law, tort liability, and copyright law. He has participated in several international litigation and restructuring cases involving cross-border insolvency and foreign investment.

Since the advent of the New Bankruptcy Law, Joel Bastos has been advising clients on all of the most important restructuring cases in Brazil, representing the interests of financially distressed companies that operate in various industries. Bastos has been acknowledged both in Brazil and abroad as one of the leading attorneys in this practice area and in 2006 he received the ‘Deal of the Year’ award for his pivotal role in the Parmalat case and in 2015 in the OAS case. He has also participated and coordinated the largest and most complex court-supervised corporate reorganization cases in Brazil.

Joel Bastos appears many times in several legal directories such as Chambers, Latin Lawyer, Legal 500 and PLC (Practical Law Company), and he is also an honorary member of International Who´s Who Legal. He also lectures and works as a visiting professor at several universities both in undergraduate and graduate programs on a regular basis.

Bastos obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the School of Law of Mackenzie University in 1992. He is the founding member and currently a member of the Board of Directors at the Turnaround Management Association – TMA Brasil, and also a member of the Brazilian Bar Association’s (OAB) Special Committee on Banking Law.

Ivo has been advising clients on debt restructuring, insolvency and business litigation for more than 10 years, having played an important role in some of the most challenging reorganization cases in Brazil, including advising investors and sellers in the divestment of assets of companies in distress.

Ivo Waisberg has more than 20 years of experience in legal practice – in matter involving business, corporate, banking, antitrust and contract law – having assisted large companies and banks by representing their interests in large-scale transactions involving financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, agribusiness and also on strategic litigations relating to such areas. He has also represented clients in highly complex litigation cases and negotiations.

Ivo also participates in commercial and corporate arbitration, both as counsel for the parties and as an arbitrator, as he is included in the list of arbitrators of the Chamber of Market Arbitration of the São Paulo Stock Exchange – CAM BMF&Bovespa, among others.

Waisberg has been cited many times as one of the leading attorneys practicing in areas related to commercial law, bankruptcy law and debt restructuring by renowned international publications such as Latin Lawyer, Legal 500 and Chambers Latin America.

Ivo is also a professor of commercial law at the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), both in undergraduate and graduate programs. He is also a visiting professor in commercial law courses organized by local business school GVLaw.

He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 1996; his Master’s degree in Commercial Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2001; completed the Master of Laws – LLM program in Economic Regulation and Antitrust at New York University in 2003; obtained his PhD in International Economic Relations from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2005 and his Full Professor degree (post-doctorate) in Commercial Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2015.

Bruno has great experience obtained from his outstanding work in the largest and most complex restructuring cases in Brazil, having advised debtors, creditors and investors involved in the most challenging cases of restructuring, court-supervised and out-of-court corporate reorganizations and bankruptcies.

Bruno began his career participating in the Parmalat debt restructuring, having, since then, participated in and coordinated dozens of other successful cases involving debt restructuring. He has coordinated with foreign law firms the filing for ancillary debt restructuring outside of Brazil (Chapter 15), thus acquiring vast experience in litigations relating to cross-border insolvency cases and negotiations. His work in debt restructuring has been recognized in several legal directories, having had his name mentioned and ranked in publications such as Latin Lawyer, Legal 500 and Chambers. He is also a coordinator of the committee on bankruptcy law at IBRADEMP and a member of the NextGen at the International Insolvency Institute.

Bruno obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2005 and his LLM in Bankruptcy Law from Columbia Law School, NY, in 2012.

Ricardo is a highly skilled attorney in the areas of debt restructuring, corporate reorganization, litigation and arbitration, having played an important role in some of the biggest court-supervised reorganization cases in Brazil.

Ricardo has great experience in advising clients in complex litigation cases, notably those involving strategic commercial litigation, corporate, civil, financial and banking law matters, in addition to participating in highly complex arbitration processes, representing both domestic and foreign clients.

Ricardo is also a bank regulatory lawyer with significant experience assisting clients in administrative proceedings involving the Central Bank of Brazil.

Ricardo obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of São Paulo in 1999; his graduate certificate in IT Law from the Escola Superior da Advocacia (ESAOAB-SP) in 2008; and Corporate Law Extension Course certificate from the School of Law at the International Institute of Social Sciences (CEU-IICS) in 2014.

Herbert has developed his career in law covering a wide range of practice areas such as real estate, finance, corporate, restructuring, capital markets and contracts.

Herbert has significant experience in structured finance and real estate operations, including representation of financial institutions, securitization companies, investment funds (FII, FIP, FIDC, FIM), real estate developers and institutional investors, advising them in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, purchase, sale and lease of assets and real estate portfolios, financial and real estate securitization operations, including important debt restructuring and refinancing transactions in various segments of the Brazilian economy.

Herbert obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2006; his Graduate Certificate in Constitutional Tax Law from Cogeae-SP in 2010 and a Certificate in Capital Markets – Legal Aspects from GV-Law in 2008; his Master’s degree in Commercial Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2012; and is currently obtaining his PhD degree in Commercial Law at the same institution.

Gilberto Gornati graduated in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2009), holds a Masters in Law degree in Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (2013).

His practices comprise Debt Restructuring, Judicial Restructuring, Bankruptcy, Banking, Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Member of the Comissão dos Novos Advogados from the Instituto dos Advogados de São Paulo (IASP).

Languages: Portuguese and English.

Publications:

• Direito Bancário: contratos e operações bancárias (coauthor). 2nd edition. São Paulo: Saraiva, 2016.

Helena Sampaio Galvani graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (2015).

Her practices comprise debt restructuring, judicial restructuring, and bankruptcy.

Associated to Brazilian Bar Association, São Paulo.

Languages: Portuguese, English , Spanish and German.

Orlando José Guterres Costa Junior graduated in Law from the Universidade Federal do Maranhão (2012), and holds a Master’s Degree in International Law from the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2015).

His practice comprises the resolution of civil, commercial and corporate sophisticate disputes, arbitration and dispute prevention.

Associated to the Brazilian Bar Association – São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Languages: Portuguese and English.