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Prisma Capital

Litigation Funding

Litigation Support Guide 2026 : Latin America-wide


Prisma Capital

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Litigation Funding - Latin America-wide

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What the Team is Known For

Based in Brazil, Prisma Capital funds a variety of litigation and international arbitrations across a range of Latin American jurisdictions.

Strengths

They deliver great results with deep knowledge of the industry.

Prisma distinguishes itself from others by its agility, flexibility, network of investors and sector-focused strategy.

They are extremely sophisticated, with enormous technical and creative capacity. Without a doubt, they are among the most capable investment managers in litigation funding that we have had the opportunity to work with.

Prisma Capital is truly great at identifying business opportunities and designing complex structures to achieve results.

The Prisma team is usually very hands-on, creative and sophisticated and knows how to think in innovative structures to get the deals done. With a multidisciplinary team of bankers and former lawyers, Prisma is always looking at complex structures with a good eye for economic and legal risks.

Notable practitioners
Gustavo Klein

Gustavo Klein uses his extensive background as a lawyer to manage funding cases and specialises in analysing, structuring, negotiating and monitoring all aspects of a range of different transactions.

Gustavo is a reference in the market and an extraordinary professional.

Gustavo Klein is an exemplary professional. He is technically prepared, very practical and commercially minded. He is quite experienced and creative.

Gustavo is a brilliant lawyer and is growing to become an amazing banker. His litigator background helps him think of great opportunities for his client.


João Mendes

João Mendes is a founding and managing partner of Prisma Capital. His focus is on managing investments in Brazil.

João Mendes is always business savvy, a great negotiator, energetic, intelligent and creative. He extracts value from the most complicated situations.

He is a senior member with deep knowledge and great negotiation skills.

João is very experienced and ahead and aware of all challenges.

João is a brilliant individual with an incredibly analytical and solution-oriented mind, capable of offering both great commercial advice and legal insight. Working with him is a great experience and a pleasure.

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