Topic: Start-up companies

Flash Benefícios, a São Paulo-based benefits management start-up, has hired Bronstein, Zilberberg, Chueiri e Potenza Advogados to raise US$100 million in a Series C funding round.

31 March 2022

Brazilian banking giant Itaú has hired DLA Piper LLP in Miami, San Juan, Buenos Aires and Lima, Arias, Fábrega & Fábrega, Ferrere (Uruguay) and Guyer & Regules in Montevideo to buy minority stakes in two Uruguayan fintech companies.

30 March 2022

Bronstein, Zilberberg, Chueiri & Potenza Advogados and Machado Meyer Advogados have helped wine retailer Evino Comércio de Vinhos raise 650 million reais (US$126 million) in a funding round led by Brazilian bank XP Investimentos.

21 March 2022

TozziniFreire Advogados in São Paulo have advised Japan’s SoftBank as lead investor in a US$25 million financing round for Brazilian food purchasing start-up Trela.

18 March 2022

US law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has helped Japan’s SoftBank lead several funding rounds where it used its Latin American investment fund to inject US$32 million into three separate Brazilian start-up companies.

17 March 2022

Brazilian low-code integration platform Digibee has hired Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in New York and Miami to raise US$25 million in a Series A funding round, led by SoftBank.

07 March 2022

Machado Meyer Advogados in São Paulo has helped US investment company Warburg Pincus buy a minority stake in Brazilian human resources start-up Sólides for US$100 million.

03 March 2022

Brazilian fintech start-up Neon has hired Clifford Chance LLP in São Paulo to raise US$300 million in a Series D funding round, which was led by BBVA.

24 February 2022

Four offices of US firm Cooley LLP have helped Inventa, a Brazilian digital platform for small and mid-sized retailers, raise 115 million reais (US$21 million) in a Series A investment round.

17 February 2022

Start-up Gupy has enlisted Bronstein, Zilberberg, Chueiri & Potenza Advogados in São Paulo to raise 500 million reais (US$93 million) in the largest funding round in the Brazilian digital human resources sector.

14 February 2022