Adriano Ferraz

Practice Areas

Corporate and M&A

Capital Markets

Corporate and Asset Restructuring

Foreign Investments

Private Equity and Venture Capital

Project Finance

Reorganization and Bankruptcy

Startup and Fintech

Technology and Innovation

Career

Adriano is a founding partner and co-responsible for Freitas Ferraz’s Corporate and M&A group. He acts for national and foreign clients, and is actively involved in negotiating, structuring and implementing M&A transactions, private equity and venture capital deals, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, capital markets, and corporate restructuring of companies under financial crisis.

An expert in corporate transactions in the energy sector, Adriano has a solid background in acquisitions of hydroelectric, wind and solar power plants, leading high-end transactions. He has also advised several investments and restructuring transactions of corporate groups, acting for clients in the energy, technology, education and real estate sectors, mostly through the impact within corporate investment transactions and M&A.

Adriano is also a Mergers and Acquisitions and Commercial Contracts professor at the LL.M. and MBA Program of IBMEC.

Publications

Co-author of the books: “Sociedades Anônimas e Mercado de Capitais: Estudos em Homenagem ao Prof. Osmar Brina Corrêa-Lima,” “Fundos de Investimentos – Aspectos Jurídicos, Regulamentares e Tributários” and “A Destituição e a Nomeação de Administrador pelo Poder Judiciário.”

Professional Memberships

Founder and coordinator of the Business Law Study Group of Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais School of Law.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Brazil

Languages Spoken

English

Spanish

Work Highlights

- Assistance to Afya Participações (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Afya Limited – Nasdaq: AFYA) in a series of M&A transactions.

- Assistance to several energy clients in the development, construction and operation of solar power plants focused on distributed generation nationwide.

- Assistance to ArcelorMittal Group (the largest steel producer globally) in the structuring and incorporation of an exclusive equity investment fund (FIP) to concentrate the group’s venture capital investments in Brazilian companies that develop technological solutions, products, or services linked to civil construction, mining, steel, and industry sectors.

Education