VBSO Advogados

VBSO Advogados is a specialist Brazilian firm providing clear, business-oriented advice on complex transactional mandates across Corporate and M&A, Capital Markets, Banking and Finance, and Tax. The practice is distinguished by an integrated, multidisciplinary execution model that aligns corporate, funding and tax workstreams within a single strategic plan. Operating from São Paulo and Vinhedo, the firm is retained by domestic and international clients for mergers and reorganisations, securitisation and structured finance, syndicated and project financings, and regulatory matters before the CVM and the Central Bank of Brazil.

The firm’s transactional practice is highly active and maintains leading expertise across corporate and M&A, capital markets, banking and finance, and tax, with a distinctive edge at the intersection of capital markets and sector structuring, particularly in agribusiness and real estate.

Partners Renata Simon and Amanda Visentini Rodrigues lead the Corporate and M&A practice, advising on domestic and cross-border transactions, corporate reorganisations and joint ventures, often in regulated and growth sectors. The team executes mandates across the mid-market, including buy-side and sell-side acquisitions and succession-driven reorganisations for prominent family-owned businesses.

VBSO advises issuers, sponsors and lenders on public and private debt offerings, receivables structures and complex financing arrangements, alongside fintech and securities regulation before the CVM and the Central Bank of Brazil. Partners Erik Oioli, Henrique Vicentin Lisboa, José Alves Ribeiro Jr., Marcelo Winter and Renato Buranello lead mandates spanning syndicated and structured loans, project finance and cross-border transactions. The group is recognised for bridging capital markets tools with sector depth, frequently integrating agribusiness and real estate flows within a single financing and securitisation strategy.

The non-contentious tax group, led by partners Paulo Vaz and Mário Shingaki, with Diogo Olm Ferreira and Vinícius Vicentin Caccavali, supports transactions with comprehensive planning, reorganisations and wealth and succession work. The team provides sector-specific tax counsel for infrastructure, energy and financial services, ensuring rigorous planning and controversy support throughout deal execution.

The firm’s agribusiness platform complements transactional work with specialised sector counsel. Partners Renato Buranello, Marcelo Winter and José Afonso Leirião Filho advise across the agricultural chain, from structured finance and securitisation to collateral, barter-linked arrangements and distressed or insolvency situations.

VBSO combines legal rigour with commercial acumen and disciplined process design. Recent acknowledgements include Chambers rankings for Capital Markets and Tax Non-Contentious, with recognition also secured for Banking and Finance and Corporate and M&A in the Global Guide 2025.

VBSO has a highly specialized team in Agribusiness Law, composed by professionals with highly technical qualification and practical experience, to advise complex judicial relations involving the agribusiness systems.In that context, our assistance includes, among other matters, structuring and formalization of agroindustry activities financing operations, including operations with agribusiness bonds (CPR, CDCA, LCA and CDA/WA), development and formalization of securitization structures (CRA and FIDC), analysis, review, elaboration, modeling and validation of agricultural contracts, rural partnership and lease, vertical integration according to specific law, inputs supply, contractual network and agroindustry integration, agricultural commodities purchase and sale, logistics and storage of products, byproducts and residues.

VBSO also advise the development and formalization of agribusiness commercial structures, such as barter, partnership and joint ventures, cooperation operations and mergers and acquisitions involving agribusiness entities, including legal audit, negotiation and preparation of applicable instruments, as well the issuance of memorandum, studies and legal opinion regarding themes and operations related to agribusiness legal framework.