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team

PARTNER
Eduardo Benetti

Practice Areas: Corporate and M&A, Corporate Disputes and Capital Markets

Experience

He has over 20 years of experience, having been responsible for hundreds of company structurings, fundraisings, corporate reorganizations and M&A transactions for clients positioned in various industries. Ranked as a reference lawyer in M&A operations. International experience having worked in an office located in New York. He has 5 years of executive experience (C-Level) in public and large companies.
Member of the São Paulo Lawyers Institute – IASP. Effective member of the Corporate Litigation and M&A Disputes Committee of the Brazilian Institute of Business Law – IBRADEMP. Rapporteur Judge of the 4th Panel of the Ethics Court of OAB/SP.

Training

Executive MBA from INSPER
Post-graduation in Corporate Law from FGV
Postgraduate Degree in Energy Sector Law from FGV
Graduate in Business Law from NYC
Bachelor of Law from PUC/SP

Languages

Portuguese, English and Spanish

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PARTNER
Pedro Giammarino

Practice Areas: Corporate and M&A, Corporate Disputes and Capital Markets

Experience

He has 10 years of experience, having worked in renowned law firms in Brazil and acted in several company structurings, corporate reorganizations and M&A operations for clients positioned in different industries. Recognized by the publication The Legal 500 Latin America (Brazil – Corporate and M&A) in the 2021-2022 edition as Rising Star and in the 2022-2023 edition as Next Generation Partner, a lawyer recommended by the PBV Monitor publication in 2019 and 2020, and recognized as an expert in Corporate/M&A by the same publication in 2021, and one of the winners of the International Advisory Experts Awards 2020 (Corporate Law). Effective member of the Corporate Law and Capital Markets Commission of the Brazilian Institute of Business Law – IBRADEMP.

Training
Executive Education in Mergers and Acquisitions – M&A by INSPER
Bachelor of Laws from the University of São Paulo – USP

Languages

Portuguese, English, Spanish and German

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PARTNER
Deborah Srour-Politis

Practice Areas: Compliance and Investigation and International Desk

Experience

She has more than 30 years of experience representing companies and financial institutions in Brazil and the United States in matters of international and banking law, with a focus on Compliance and, in particular, Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism – PLDFT, as well as Fraud and Corruption through the creation and implementation of internal programs of compliance, supervision, training, auditing and conducting internal investigations. She has authored several articles on the subject for the New York Bar Law Journal and the American Bar Law Journal. Editor of topics related to Money Laundering and Anti-Corruption for the Practicing Law Institute. Member of the Brazilian Bar Association (São Paulo Section), of the New York State Bar, with authorization to act as a lawyer before the State and Federal courts of the State of New York , as well as the Israeli Bar Association (Lishkat Orhei Hadin) as a foreign lawyer, having actively participated in discussions on the Israeli bill against Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism in the Knesset (Parliament of Israel). Member of the Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS). She is also a partner at Berenthal & Associates, headquartered in New York and associations in Brazil, France, Spain and Israel, with whom our firm has a strategic partnership.

Training

Graduated in Law from New York University – NYU
Postgraduate in International Law from the University of São Paulo – USP
Bachelor of Laws from the University of São Paulo – USP
Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Casper Líbero Journalism College

Languages

Portuguese, English, French, Hebrew, Italian and Arabic

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LAIS HELENA BUENO GIAMMARINO
Associate

Practice Areas: Tax, Corporate and M&A

Graduated in Law from the Universidade de São Paulo – USP and post-graduated in Tax Management from the Institute of Accounting, Actuarial and Financial Research Foundation – FIPECAFI, she works in the area of tax consulting with extensive knowledge in direct and indirect taxes, national and international tax planning, taxation of M&A transactions, tax advice on corporate structuring and reorganizations, due diligences, estate planning, taxation of foreign investments in Brazil and Brazilians abroad, taxation in financial and capital markets, analysis and obtaining tax benefits, with experience in several sectors of the economy, such as health, education, supply chain and financial market.

Languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish

ANDRÉ FARIA
Associate

Practice Areas: Corporate and M&A, Corporate Conflicts, Compliance and Investigation

Graduated in Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC/SP, he has previous experience in a renowned business consulting company in São Paulo/SP in the areas of Risk Management, Compliance and Auditing. He is currently acting in legal practice focused on business consulting, with an emphasis on complex contractual issues and compliance, in addition to bringing together knowledge and experience in corporate transactions and mergers and acquisitions (M&A), as well as conducting due diligences.

Languages: Portuguese and English

MAYARA SANCHES
Associate

Practice Areas: Corporate and M&A, Corporate Conflicts

Bachelor’s degree in Audiovisual from Centro Universitário Senac and graduated in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, she has extreme academic dedication to the Corporate and M&A area, having participated in the Grupo of Advanced Studies in Corporate Law at Mackenzie and the 1st Introduction to Mergers and Acquisitions Course at the Center for M&A Studies at the University of São Paulo – USP

Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish and French

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