Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados

Managing Partners: Rodrigo Vella, Antonio Celso Pugliese

Number of partners: 22

Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, French.

Firm Overview:

Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados is the most global and innovative law firm in Brazil, with the strategic alliance with Dentons, the world’s largest law firm. It is a full-service law firm with an agile and collaborative approach that delivers the results its clients seek. Headquartered in São Paulo and with offices in Brasília, Ribeirão Preto and Rio de Janeiro, Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados has more than 160 professionals — including more than 120 lawyers, counsel, paralegals and trainees — ready to serve clients in any area of law. The success of the firm is based on its deep and longlasting relationships with clients and its ability to develop, communicate and implement efficient legal solutions.

Clients: The firm provides legal services to a number of industries and business segments, for both domestic and international companies, such as the telecommunication, investment funds, agribusiness, energy, banking and technology.

Main Areas of Practice:

Banking & Finance:

Direct loans and financings, crossborder financings, syndicated loans, project finance, development banks’ and multilateral agencies’ financing.

Contact: Rodrigo Vella

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Gabriella Maranesi Najjar

Email: [email protected]

Capital Markets:

Public or private offerings of stocks, depositary receipts, commercial paper, debentures, bonds and other securities; structuring of investment funds; issuance of debentures and commercial papers and advisory on debt renegotiation.

Contact: Gabriella Maranesi Najjar

Email: [email protected]

Competition/Antitrust:

Antitrust advice, submission and opposition of concentration acts, antitrust administrative and judicial proceeding (e.g. cartels, distribution, relationships, abuse of dominant position) and investigations of commercial defence (e.g. dumping).

Compliance:

The Compliance team is proficient and experienced in preventive measures, administrative procedures and leniency agreements related to all types of compliance, such as anti-corruption, antitrust, money laundering, fraud and labour.

Contact: Denise Leão Chachamovitz de Salles

Email: [email protected]

Corporate/M&A:

Mergers and acquisition transactions, investments and divestitures, restructurings and corporate reorganisations, partnerships and joint-ventures, legal due diligences.

Contact: Rodrigo Vella

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Denise Leão Chachamovitz de Salles

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Gabriella Maranesi Najjar

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Bruna Gobbi

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Fernanda Le Tassinari

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Fernando Henrique Lopes

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Anne Chang

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Pedro G. Seraphim

Email: [email protected]

Employment & Labour:

Labour litigation, labour advice, union negotiation, compensation and benefits’ planning.

Contact: Marcos Renato Gelsi dos Santos

Email: [email protected]

Environmental:

Structuring and implementation of projects with environmental impacts, assessment of environmental compliance, administrative and judicial defence in proceeding and law suits involving environmental matters.

Contact: Antonio Celso Pugliese

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Anderson Moura

Email: [email protected]

General Corporate Practice:

Incorporation, maintenance and liquidation of Brazilian companies, foreign investments, foreign exchange control and currency remittances.

Contact: Rodrigo Vella

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Denise Leão Chachamovitz de Salles

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Gabriella Maranesi Najjar

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Bruna Gobbi

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Fernanda Le Tassinari

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Fernando Henrique Lopes

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Anne Chang

Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property:

IP contracts, licensing and technology transfer, trademarks and patents, copyrights, software protection.

Contact: Rodrigo Vella

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Patricia Barbosa

Email: [email protected]

Internet & Media:

Privacy data protection, cybersecurity, Internet and e-commerce contracts and regulations, directed marketing and social media, gaming, IP disputes in cyberspace, domain name disputes and media contracts and regulation.

Contact: Rodrigo Vella

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Patricia Barbosa

Email: [email protected]

Litigation & Arbitration:

Civil, commercial, corporate and capital markets litigation, bankruptcies and reorganisations, arbitration and alternative mechanisms for dispute resolutions.

Contact: Antonio Celso Fonseca Pugliese

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Nahima Muller

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Carolina Mansur

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Erik Martins Sernik

Email: [email protected]

Public Law:

Administrative litigation in administrative courts and regulatory agencies, in government contracting, such as public bids, concessions and public-private partnerships — PPPs, and in consulting work relating to public services, such as ports, airports, highways, railways, energy, oil and gas, mining, telecom, radio and TV.

Real Estate:

Purchase and sale transactions, title and ownership investigations, developments, O&M and lease agreements.

Contact: Rodrigo Vella

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Daniel Lopes Coelho

Email: [email protected]

Regulatory:

Acting before governments and regulatory agencies, legal opinions and memorandum, administrative and judicial proceedings, representation in regulatory proceedings before federal and state agencies, performance in consultations and public hearings as well in highly complex regulatory demands, structuring and implementation of compliance programs related to regulatory matters.

Contact: Talitha Chaves

Email: [email protected]

Tax:

Tax planning, tax benefits programs and administrative and judicial litigation assistance.

Contact: Antonio Carlos Guidoni Filho

Email: [email protected]

Contact: André Ricardo Lemes

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Helena Vicentini de Assis

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Juliana Martins Skolimovski Gaia da Silveira

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Ricardo Braghini

Email: [email protected]

Telecommunications & Technology:

Both regulatory and transactional work in the technology and telecom industries with a excellent track record in ITO and BPO industries, acting for both customers and vendors.

Contact: Rodrigo Vella

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Patricia Barbosa

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Anne Chang

Email: [email protected]