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Corporate/M&A: The Elite

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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.

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Corporate/M&A: The Elite - Brazil

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What the Team is Known For

Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados has a stellar corporate department demonstrating 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.

Work Highlights

Provided by Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados

  • Cescon Barrieu advised EDP - Energias do Brasil on launching a tender offer for the acquisition of shares issued by the company for the purpose of cancellation of registration as a publicly-held company in category A and conversion to category B and delisting from Novo Mercado of EDP - Energias do Brasil.

Strengths

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Cescon always brings up relevant matters during negotiations, keeping close relationship between partners and clients throughout the negotiation process.

Corporate/M&A: The Elite respondent
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Comprehensive and high quality work. They are very professional and people-friendly advisors.

Corporate/M&A: The Elite respondent
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The M&A team instills extreme confidence. All the analysis and considerations were very well grounded and done in a clear way, which allows us to make decisions with peace of mind.

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Notable Practitioners

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Maria Cristina Cescon
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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 outstanding. In my opinion she continues to be the best corpoate/M&A lawyer in Brazil.

Maria Crsitina Cescon acts on complex issues and does so with much agility.

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Marcos Rafael Flesch
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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 in complex and cross-border deals.

Marcos Rafael is a top-notch lawyer. He's highly skilled and has an excellent strategic mind, providing innovative and accurate solutions.

Marcos Rafael has superb knowledge, availability and assertiveness.

He's got excellent relationship skills when dealing with clients.

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Darkson Delmondes Galvão
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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.

I think he is a good professional who has a constructive approach during negotiations.

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Ronald Herscovici
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Ronald Herscovici
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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.

I consider Ronald to be one of the best lawyers for M&A.

He is a practitioner with deep knowledge and experience.

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Luciana Mares
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Luciana Mares
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Up and Coming
Luciana Mares is an up-and-coming lawyer often seen advising clients on M&A transactions and joint venture mandates.

Luciana is an extremely competent professional, who can clearly elucidate all the necessary aspects for decision-making, considering the risks in each situation.

Luciana is committed, very available and knows a lot about corporate matters involving finance issues.

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Corporate/M&A
Maria Cristina Cescon
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Maria Cristina Cescon
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Band 1
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Marcos Rafael Flesch
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Marcos Rafael Flesch
Head of Corporate/M&A
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Band 2
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Darkson Delmondes Galvão
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Darkson Delmondes Galvão
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Band 5
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Ronald Herscovici
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Ronald Herscovici
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Band 6
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Luciana Mares
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Luciana Mares
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Up and Coming
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Members

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Ana Carolina Passos

Andrea Campos

Darkson Galvão

Eduardo Lanna

Fernanda Montorfano

Julia Franco

Leandro Correa

Manoela Miranda

Marcos Rafael Flesch

Marcos Rafael Flesch

Head of Department

Maria Cristina Cescon

Maria Cristina Cescon

Head of Department

Marina Faro

Matheus Fernandes

Ronald Herscovici

Head of Department

Clients

Provided by Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Advogados

Ambev

Appian Capital Advisory LLP

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board - CPPIB

ICL Group

Inspired Education

Valmet Corporation

Industries

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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