Market: Brazil

Brazilian firm Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados has strengthened its corporate, litigation and tax offerings by promoting six of its lawyers to the firm’s most senior rank.

01 September 2023

A senior official at Brazil’s anti-corruption agency said it is increasing its cooperation with international counterparts in an effort to bring more joint enforcement actions and boost compliance with the country’s anti-corruption law.

01 September 2023

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and São Paulo has helped Avon, a subsidiary of Brazilian cosmetics group Natura, launch a US$194 million tender offer to buy back existing debt.

01 September 2023

Uber Brazil’s new general counsel has set the wheels of its legal department in motion like never before. In an interview with LACCA, Ianda Lopes explores the role Uber plays in supporting Brazil’s gig economy, ways that artificial intelligence can complement human talent and making diversity a priority when choosing external counsel.

31 August 2023

A former legal manager of Brazilian stock market self-regulator BSM Supervisão de Mercados has joined Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados Associados as partner and head of its new capital markets infrastructure group.

31 August 2023

Campos Mello Advogados in cooperation with DLA Piper has helped Brazilian football club Botafogo negotiate the sale of its TV rights to US investor Serengeti Asset Management and Brazilian fund Life Capital Partners, as the two investors injected capital into breakaway football league Liga Forte Futebol.

31 August 2023

Cascione Advogados has hired a former Stocche Forbes Advogados partner to lead its white-collar crime, compliance and corporate investigations practice.

30 August 2023

Matter, Boettcher, Zanini e Souza Advogados has helped Brazilian hospital operator Americas Health buy a majority stake in local counterpart Austa.

30 August 2023

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused a Brazilian compliance lawyer of profiting from confidential information that he accessed whilst working as a visiting attorney in the Washington, DC office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

29 August 2023

Two Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP offices and BMA Advogados in São Paulo have helped Brazilian oil and gas company PetroRecôncavo obtain a US$60 million loan to fund its purchase of local oil assets from Sweden’s Maha Energy, which took place earlier this year.

29 August 2023