Bronstein, Zilberberg, Chueiri & Potenza Advogados

Bronstein, Zilberberg, Chueiri & Potenza was founded in April 2021 by four of Brazil's most recognized venture capital & start-up lawyers: Sergio Bronstein, Eduardo Zilberberg, Pedro Chueiri, and Guilherme Potenza.

Our partners worked for several years in prestigious U.S. law firms and accumulated a wealth of experience in cross-border transactions and knowledge of Silicon Valley and top-tier NY practices. After several years of establishing renowned venture capital and M&A practices in Brazilian firms (Dias Carneiro, Ulhôa Canto, and Veirano), they decided to join forces to create a premium law boutique dedicated to venture capital, private equity, and M&A.

Totalling 35+ people and starting with a stellar list of 200+ technology companies and 30+ venture capital and private equity funds, in just a few days the firm established itself as a powerhouse in the Brazilian market. The largest and most experienced team in this practice area.

We assist start-ups with their fundraising process throughout the company’s life cycle. We help them define the most appropriate fundraising structure and negotiate investment rounds, technology agreements, and M&A transactions. At the same time, we regularly assist the most active venture capital funds in investing and exiting their investment in Brazilian-based technology companies.

With a joint experience of more than 1,000 financing rounds, our partners have participated in several of the most acclaimed deals of the decade – such as Google’s USD1.1 billion acquisition of Waze; the USD 2.3 billion acquisition of Oculus VR by Facebook; the IPO of Decolar.com; the USD 1 billion sale of Brazil’s first unicorn 99 Taxis to Didi Chuxing; and the BRL 6.8 billion sale of Linx to Stone Co.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2020-2021 our team was more active than ever, breaking records in both volume and value of deals.

To list a few, our partners acted in:

(A) FINANCING ROUNDS 

• Loggi’s BRL 1.1 billion Series F financing round;
• MadeiraMadeira’s BRL 1 billion Series E financing round;
• Take’s BRL 560 million financing round - LatAm’s largest Series A to date;
• Descomplica’s BRL 450 million Series E financing round;
• Solinftec’s BRL 205+ million Series B financing round;
• Riverwood’s BRL 160+ million investment in Intelipost; and
• Amaro’s complex venture debt financing rounds in 3 different jurisdictions.

(B) M&A/EXIT TRANSACTIONS: 

• Stone’s BRL 6.7 billion acquisition of Linx;
• RD Station’s BRL 1.8 billion sale to Totvs;
• Magalu’s acquisition of InLoco;
• Quinto Andar’s acquisition of Casa Mineira;
• Creditas’ acquisition of Bcredi;
• Infracommerce’s acquisition of Pier 8;
• Cortex’s acquisition of ITB360; and
• Totvs’ BRL 500 million acquisition of Supplier.

Importantly, our client roster includes:

• The most active venture capital funds investing in Brazil, notably Monashees Capital, Kaszek Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Igah Ventures, Astella Investimentos, Accel Partners, and Riverwood Capital.
• Prestigious Corporate Venture (CVC) houses such as Mercado Libre, Qualcomm Ventures, Kinea, and Inovabra.
• Several of the most promising Brazilian emerging technology companies, notably Brazilian tech unicorns NuBank, Creditas, Loft, Loggi, MadeiraMadeira, QuintoAndar, and Wildlife., as well as unicorns-to-be Cortex, Infracommerce, Neoway, Solinftec, Take and others.

Additionally, the firm conducted several ground-breaking financing rounds and assumed 1st place in TTR’s comparative league table in less than a year.

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