Banking & Finance

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Provided by Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados

Cescon Barrieu has a leading banking and finance practice. The breadth of its experience and its diversified client base in this area provide the lawyers with a unique insight to advise clients from simple credit lines to highly complex and tailored financing transactions. 

The department has been involved in the most innovative and important financing structures in the country, particularly on matters such as structured and syndicated loans, notes and other debt transactions, assignment of credit portfolios, regulatory, swaps and derivative transactions.

The team advises a wide range of clients in the roles of lenders, borrowers, trustees, rating agencies and others in connection with syndicated bank facilities, trade financing, leveraged investments, structured and DIP financing. The department also regularly represents clients who trade in bank and other financings in the secondary market, such as hedge funds and other asset managers. In addition, the group has in-depth experience in capital markets transactions, which allows it to be fully involved in financing projects through listed, tradable securities that can offer superior risk-adjusted returns.