VCARD
VCARD
About
Founder and managing partner of BRZ Advogados and one of those responsible for the corporate area, with an emphasis on M&A operations.
He has a solid career in corporate law, working mainly in M&A operations. During his professional career, he specialized in assisting domestic and foreign clients, mainly in M&A transactions, corporate reorganizations, contractual negotiations, infrastructure projects (with an emphasis on the O&G, mining and energy sectors) and arbitrations.
Pedro also advised some of the most relevant players in the Brazilian healthcare market in important corporate and M&A transactions.
Professional Associations:
Brazilian Bar Association (OAB).
International Bar Association – IBA.
Recent Acknowledgments:
Recognized by Chambers & Partners Latin America in M&A/Corporate.
Recommended by Global Law Experts as the specialist in the International Transactions Law Department in Brazil.
Ranked by LACCA (Latin American Corporate Counsel Association) in the areas of M&A and Corporate Law.
Practice Areas
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV, Rio de Janeiro (post-graduation program in Corporate Law and Capital Markets, 2007).
Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais – IBMEC, Rio de Janeiro (post-graduation course in Business Law, 2006).
Universidade Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro (Bachelor of Laws, 2004).
Languages
Portuguese, English and Spanish.
VoltarCOMPETITION LAW
• Competitive risk assessment in corporate transactions and commercial practices.
• Antitrust compliance – creation of internal programs for businesses and associations and training of commercial teams and executives.
• Conduct of internal audit to investigate potential anticompetition practices.
• Legal disputes in competition matters.
• Legal advice on issues involving competition law.
• Negotiation of leniency agreements and consent decrees with competition authorities.
• Representation before competition and judicial authorities in investigations of conduct.
• Representation before competition and regulatory authorities in the submission
or challenge of trust acts.
CONTRACTS
• Support in the execution of commercial contracts in general.
• Advising on the negotiation of domestic and international contracts that encompass the most varied types of agreements.
• Conducting and structuring complex contracts in the infrastructure areas.
• Support in specialized legal advice for contracts in specific markets, such as technology, health, etc.
• Advising on the analysis of commercial structures to identify potential risks and analyze alternative scenarios.
• Analysis of risks of early termination, situations of economic and financial imbalance, limitation of liability and indemnification.
CORPORATE LAW
• Incorporation of companies, consortia, joint ventures, partnerships and associations.
• Preparation of corporate documents of limited liability companies (LLCs), corporations, etc.
• Negotiation of investment contracts, association and shareholder agreements.
• Coordination of routine corporate activities and other issues involving LLCs and corporations.
• Risk analysis of corporate transactions and draft of memorandums of corporate matters.
• Conduction of corporate disputes.
LITIGATION AND ARBITRATION
• The litigation team strategically takes part, and may even leads it according to the case, into negotiations, business transactions, contractual discussions and others, adding a different perception to the matter. • Litigation involving matters of several natures, such as civil, business, consumer, sports law, infrastructure, bankruptcy and reorganization (receivership), real estate and intellectual and industrial property law. • Solid experience in national and international arbitrations before the most renowned domestic and foreign institutions. • Legal advice to prevent disputes in general and to mitigate risks and possible damages as well, either by providing legal opinions or legal counseling in a more dynamic and informal manner. • Legal assistance on pre-litigation scenarios. Along and in partnership with our clients, our litigation team will define the best strategy to build a strong and reliable case to be presented in Court. • Economic analysis of judicial claims of the companies, providing a trustable profile of the chosen company in regards of the lawsuits in which it’s involved and the economics risks associated with. • Legal opinions in civil matters.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
• Merger, acquisition, takeovers and sale of companies or assets.
• Assistance to transfer of control and minority shareholdings.
• Conduction of cash-in and cash-out transactions, private equity, leveraged buyout, management buyout, etc.
• Counsel on the development of legal due diligences in organizing data rooms for such operations.
• Integrated and coordinated work with the tax law department, which optimizes resources.
• Execution of complex commercial agreement for investments in companies in general.
OIL AND GAS
• Legal advice to national and foreign clients in the different stages of the oil and gas industry: upstream, midstream and downstream (in exploration and production, refining and processing, as well as logistics, distribution and commercialization.
• Legal counsel on the purchase and sale of assets, such as gas transport pipelines, exploration blocks and oil producing fields (farm-out e farm-in), Natural Gas Processing Units (UPGNs) gas hubs, refineries and terminals.
• Drafting, negotiation and implementation of joint ventures, joint operation agreements (JOAs) and unit operation agreements (UOAs).
• Drafting and negotiation of contracts for the purchase and sale of oil and/or natural gas (COSAs and GSAs), gas balancing and processing agreements, EPCs, among others.
• Legal advice in administrative proceedings withing ANP and other government agencies, including matters relating to exploration and production contracts (assignment, annexation and extension of contracts, approval of financial collateral and work programs, etc.).
• Regulatory support in permit procurement procedures (refining, processing, transporting, selling, distributing, etc.).
• Drafting of expert and legal opinions, in addition to defending the interests of our clients in judicial litigation or arbitration.
