Market: Brazil

Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown has helped state-owned development bank BNDES structure the privatisation of Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (CBTU), a company that held the concession of the public railway transport in Minas Gerais.

20 January 2023

Brazilian power company Cemig has enlisted local firm Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados to raise US$244 million in a bond offering.

20 January 2023

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19 January 2023

Brazilian firm Melcheds Advogados has hired a senior associate from Soto Frugis Advogados as partner and head of its labour and trade unions practice.

19 January 2023

Allen & Overy LLP in New York has helped Safra National Bank of New York (SNBNY), a part of J Safra Group, acquire US private banking business Delta North Bankcorp.

19 January 2023

Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown and Demarest Advogados have helped a consortium of oil companies win a US$400 million stake in Agua Marinha, one of Brazil’s key oil fields.

18 January 2023

Mattos Filho has helped a Vinci Airports-backed concessionaire, which operates seven airports in northern Brazil, obtain a 1.35 billion reais (US$261 million) financing package.

18 January 2023

Offshore oil drilling group Ocyan, formerly known as Odebrecht Óleo e Gás (OOG), has opened Brazilian extrajudicial reorganisation proceedings to deal with a US$2.7 billion debt pile through a debt-for-equity swap.

17 January 2023

Bichara e Motta Advogados – one of Brazil’s leading sports and entertainment boutiques – has helped Spanish footballer Alex Moreno transfer from Seville’s Real Betis to Premier League team Aston Villa.

17 January 2023

São Paulo's Albert Einstein Israelite hospital has hired two offices of Paul Hastings LLP and Brazilian firm Veirano Advogados to obtain a US$100 million financing from IDB Invest.

17 January 2023