Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados, Corporate/M&A | Chambers Brazil Profile

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About

Provided by Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados

We are recognized for our leading M&A practice in Brazil. We advise clients in the most complex and challenging transactions, including private and public mergers & acquisitions, hostile and friendly takeovers, tender offers, joint ventures, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, privatizations, private equity, and other strategic deals. Over the past seven years, we advised our clients in M&A transactions exceeding USD180 billion.

Our clients include the world’s largest corporations, private equity and financial institutions, sovereign funds, startups, tech companies, and entrepreneurs. Our M&A lawyers are regularly retained to advise boards of directors, independent committees, and financial advisors on dealrelated governance matters such as tender offers, fairness opinions, valuation reports, and securities regulation. Our corporate regulatory team advises publicly-traded companies on the most complex matters supervised by the securities regulators administrative proceedings.

Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A: The Elite - Brazil

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados has a respected corporate department that demonstrates exceptional capabilities providing counsel to domestic and multinational companies from a myriad of industries, as well as private equity groups. It is particularly active in handling major transactions in the pharmaceutical, energy and healthcare sectors. It boasts an outstanding track record in M&A, with experience advising on hostile takeovers and strategic carve-outs. It is also well versed in domestic and cross-border deals involving publicly listed companies. It routinely assists with joint venture agreements and the formation of SPVs.

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Work Highlights

Cescon advised SABESP on its privatisation through the sale of part of the shares held by the Government of the State of São Paulo via a secondary public offering.

Strengths

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Cescon is a law firm with excellent technical expertise and experience in handling complex matters. It has a very helpful team, that always responds to our calls and gives feedback quickly.

Corporate/M&A: The Elite respondent
Brazil

Cescon works with efficient integration between the internal departments, ensuring that the advice includes analysis from various legal perspectives when necessary. It delivers strategic intelligence.

Corporate/M&A: The Elite respondent
Brazil

Cescon is able to provide outstanding client service, being insightful, thinking ahead of the problems and at the same time being flexible to accommodate the commercial needs of the client.

Corporate/M&A: The Elite respondent
Brazil

Cescon is a law firm with excellent technical expertise and experience in handling complex matters. It has a very helpful team, that always responds to our calls and gives feedback quickly.

Corporate/M&A: The Elite respondent
Brazil

Cescon works with efficient integration between the internal departments, ensuring that the advice includes analysis from various legal perspectives when necessary. It delivers strategic intelligence.

Corporate/M&A: The Elite respondent
Brazil

Cescon is able to provide outstanding client service, being insightful, thinking ahead of the problems and at the same time being flexible to accommodate the commercial needs of the client.

Corporate/M&A: The Elite respondent
Brazil

Notable Practitioners

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Maria Cristina Cescon

Head of Corporate/M&A

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Band 1

Maria Cristina Cescon draws from her long-standing experience in the field to skilfully handle sophisticated M&A transactions. She receives high praise from market commentators and clients for her outstanding track record in significant deals involving both private and publicly held companies.

Maria Cristina Cescon is excellent and is one of the best M&A lawyers in the country.

Maria Cristina Cescon is an excellent professional. She is a hard worker and has very good capabilities.

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Marcos Rafael Flesch

Head of Corporate/M&A

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Band 2

Marcos Rafael Flesch is well regarded in the market and demonstrates a well-established practice in the field advising high-level companies and shareholders on complex and cross-border deals.

Marcos Rafael Flesch is an outstanding and experienced lawyer.

4

Lior Pinsky

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Band 4

Dynamic partner Lior Pinsky is well regarded in the market for handling sophisticated transactions and corporate matters for important clients, including international corporate groups and publicly held companies.

Lior Pinsky is our go-to lawyer in any matter involving Brazilian public company transactions. We feel very confident about getting the best advice every time we approach him.

5

Ana Carolina Botto Audi

5

Band 5

Partner Ana Carolina Botto Audi is equipped to advise clients on cross-border transactions such as M&A and purchase of assets. She is also knowledgeable about capital markets.

Ana Carolina Botto Audi has always impressed us with the precision of her analyses and her ability to anticipate risks and structure solid, flexible solutions.

Ana Audi has the skills to come up with original solutions in a clever way. She is creative and she represents the firm quite well.

5

Darkson Delmondes Galvão

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Band 5

Darkson Delmondes Galvão is recognised within the market for advising clients on large M&A transactions involving complex corporate structures.

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Ronald Herscovici

6

Band 6

Ronald Herscovici is a practitioner endowed with M&A skills to assist clients from various industries with due diligence, negotiations and drafting of agreements as well as governance mandates.

Ronald Herscovici is a key factor for us to hire Cescon for his deep expertise as well as negotiation skills. He is a very solid partner who can help us and negotiate the best deal possible.

Ronald Herscovici is a great lawyer, who is very skilled in handling both the legal and commercial concerns of the client.

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Corporate/M&A

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Maria Cristina Cescon

Head of Corporate/M&A

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Band 1

2

Marcos Rafael Flesch

Head of Corporate/M&A

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Band 2

4

Lior Pinsky

4

Band 4

5

Ana Carolina Botto Audi

5

Band 5

5

Darkson Delmondes Galvão

5

Band 5

6

Ronald Herscovici

6

Band 6

Members

Provided by Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados

Ana Carolina Botto Audi

Ana Carolina Passos

Andrea Campos

Darkson Delmondes Galvão

Eduardo Lanna

Fernando Pinto Xavier Filho

Joaquim OIiveira

Julia Franco

Leandro Correa

Leandro Tavares Corrêa Pinto

Manoela Miranda

Marcos Rafael Flesch

Head of Department

Maria Cristina Cescon

Head of Department

Marina Carvalho Faro

Matheus Fernandes

Ronald Herscovici

Ronald Herscovici

Head of Department

Thenard Figueiredo

Clients

Provided by Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados

Ambev

Appian Capital Advisory LLP

CVC Capital Partners

Camil Alimentos S.A.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board - CPPIB

EDP - Energias do Brasil S.A.

Enel Brasil

Gafisa S.A.

Grupo Edenred

ICL Group

Inspired Education

JBS

Smartfit

Suzano S.A.

UOL

Valmet Corporation

Industries

Provided by Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados

Agribusiness

Car Rental

Education

Energy

Financial Services

Food and Beverages

Industrial

Leisure

Life Sciences

Media

Oil and Gas

Pharmaceutical

Pulp and Paper

Real Estate

Retail

Sports

Technology