Career
Erik F. Oioli is a founding partner of VBSO and has served as Managing Partner since 2017. He coordinates the firm’s Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A, and Civil Litigation and Arbitration practices. With more than 25 years’ experience in Brazilian financial and capital markets, he advises domestic and international clients on financing transactions and fundraising in fixed-income and equity markets, including IPOs and delistings, takeover bids, project finance, securitisation vehicles and investment funds, as well as regulatory matters before the CVM and the Central Bank of Brazil. He is a specialist in corporate law and governance, counselling on joint ventures, cooperation agreements and business combinations, including share purchases, mergers, spin-offs and incorporations. He also represents clients in administrative and judicial disputes involving market authorities and self-regulatory bodies (including Bacen, CVM, CRSFN and BSM), corporate litigation, arbitration and credit recovery, with particular experience in judicial reorganisation proceedings.
Oioli holds a PhD, an LLM and an LLB in Commercial Law from the University of São Paulo, is a specialist in Financial and Capital Markets Regulation from FGV Law, completed an MBA in Finance at Insper, and attended the PMD (2019) and the ABLP (2023) at IESE Business School. He is Vice-President of the Instituto de Direito Societário Aplicado (IDSA), a founder of the Instituto Brasileiro do Direito do Agronegócio (IBDA), and serves as executive director, Technical Board president and Editorial Board member of the Revista de Direito das Sociedades e dos Valores Mobiliários. He teaches on Insper’s Financial and Capital Markets LLM and on CEU Law School’s executive programmes. He is recognised as a leading specialist in blockchain and digital assets in Brazil, having pioneered tokenisation projects and engaged regulators through cases, consultations and workshops; his contributions include work on the bill that introduced commercial paper (Federal Law No. 14,195) and ongoing dialogue with the CVM on the use of distributed-ledger infrastructure for market transactions. He is the author and editor of books and articles on corporate, financial and securities law.
Industry Sector Expertise
Integration of capital markets and structured finance with sector-specific collateral and cashflows, particularly in agribusiness and real estate; growing focus on digital assets and tokenised structures within Brazilian securities regulation.
Work Highlights
Advises on public and private issuances of promissory notes, debentures and fund quotas, with frequent involvement in real estate and agribusiness securitisations.
Leads mandates that combine capital markets and financing tools, including structured loans and cross-border programme work, and advises on fintech and securities regulation before the CVM and the Central Bank of Brazil.
Regular speaker and author on tokenisation and digital-asset regulation in Brazil, including astructuring tokenised capital-markets instruments, including tokenised commercial notes and TIDC frameworks that replicate FIDC economics.
