About

Provided by Mattos Filho

We are the only full-service firm in Brazil with highly specialized professionals in the education sector.

We believe in a collaborative and innovative work model that provides personalized service to our clients, most of whom are for-profit and non-profit supporting entities of educational institutions, including private companies, associations, foundations and investors who wish to understand the specific characteristics of this highly regulated market. Our expertise comprise issues involving onsite and distance learning education (EAD), from K-12 to higher education.

Our main goal is helping our clients in all stages of corporate decision-making, as well as interact on behalf of them with regulatory entities’, especially the Ministry of Education (MEC), in the context of administrative proceedings or supporting in public hearings and public consultations regarding new legal frameworks. In addition to that scope, we assist our clients in investigations before MEC, punitive administrative proceedings, civil inquiries and lawsuits involving educational matters.

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What the Team is Known For

Leading firm Mattos Filho is held in high esteem among market analysts for providing specialised services in the field of education, advising important players in the sector. The firm sponsors highly sophisticated mandates ranging from regulatory matters to high value M&A and transactions.

Work Highlights

  • Mattos Filho advised Arco Educação in the public procurement promoted by Colégio Tiradentes da Polícia Militar (CTPM), from Minas Gerais State, for

    educational solutions for its 32,000 students, in a deal involving BLR25 million.

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Notable Practitioners

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Henrique Lago da Silveira
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Henrique Lago da Silveira
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Henrique Lago da Silveira is a renowned practitioner, leading many of the most significant cases within education. He is frequently engaged in litigation and regulatory matters and acts on behalf of high profile institutions.

Henrique's expertise and professionalism truly set him apart in the industry.

Henrique has always been very careful, proactive and engaged with education themes. For me, today, he is the best professional in the area.

I see in Henrique an excellent partner. He surprises me in finding solutions to problems that I consider unsolvable.

Luciana Pietro Lorenzo
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Luciana Pietro Lorenzo
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Luciana Pietro Lorenzo works with M&A transactions, with an expertise in education. She also advises corporations in the education sector regarding corporate matters and compliance with CVM regulations.

Luciana is an excellent lawyer.

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Henrique Silveira
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Henrique Silveira
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Luciana Lorenzo
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Luciana Lorenzo
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