Felipe Barreto Veiga

Practice Areas

Corporate M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital and Wealth Planning

Career

Felipe Barreto Veiga is the founding and managing partner at BVA-Barreto Veiga Advogados and a senior partner in the firm’s M&A, Venture Capital, and Private Equity practices. He represents publicly traded and privately held companies, startups, family offices, banks, asset managers, and investment funds from over 70 countries.

He is recognized as one of Brazil’s most active dealmakers, with a track record that includes over 200 transactions. Felipe is highly regarded in the technology market, serving as a trusted advisor to some of the country’s top startup entrepreneurs, investors, shareholders, families, and controlling groups of major companies and middle-market firms.

At BVA, Felipe has led some of Brazil's most significant M&A, Private Equity, and Venture Capital transactions in recent years involving companies like Porto Seguro, Santander, Softbank, VTEX, Locaweb, Natura, Galápagos Capital, MRV Engenharia, Nuvini, Domo Invest, Itaú BBA, BTG Pactual, BNDES, Kovi, Apex Partners, OLX, Grupo Zap, Artplan, Ambev, Wine.com.br, Blowtex, Helisul Aviação, Pátria Investimentos, Banco Modal, Alper Seguros, Intellipost, Boticário, Semantix, Grupo Cataratas, Cidade Matarazzo, Gafisa Properties, Random Ventures, Suno, Singu, V4 Company, and others.

With approximately R$ 8 billion in transactions in recent years, Felipe has consistently ranked among Brazil’s top dealmakers according to TTR Data in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. His M&A and Venture Capital teams at BVA have also achieved recognition in the IFLR 1000 by Euromoney and Legal 500 in 2021, 2022, and 2023, and have been listed among the firms conducting the most transactions according to TTR Data.

Individually recognized by Legal 500 as a “venture capital, private equity, and M&A specialist,” Felipe has been recognized by Leaders League from 2017 to 2023 as one of the top lawyers in M&A (Small and Mid Cap), Startups, Innovation, Technology, and Venture Capital. He has also been recognized by Latin Lawyer Reference in 2017 and 2018, and by Análise Advocacia in 2018 and 2023 as one of the most admired lawyers in Brazil in the banking and financial institutions sector and technology sector, respectively.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Corporate and M&A Committee and Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee of the IBA – International Bar Association, and a member of the Business Law Committee of the ABA – American Bar Association.

Member of the Brazil-Florida Business Council, IBA – International Bar Association, ABA – American Bar Association, AIJA – Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats, International Trademark Association (INTA), and the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB).

Publications

Felipe's work is featured in bestsellers such as “Nada Easy” by Tallis Gomes, recounting the story of the entrepreneur and the founding of Easy Taxi, and “Saída de Mestre” by João Cristofolini and Eduardo Cosomano, detailing the sale of Pegaki to Intellipost.

Felipe is the author of articles and books published in four languages, co-author of “Marco Legal das Startups” and “Direito no Metaverso,” both published by Ed. Revista dos Tribunais/Thomson Reuters. He holds a law degree from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, with additional studies at Harvard Law School, Fordham Law School, and the New York Institute of Finance. He is a frequent contributor to major media outlets such as Valor Econômico, Globo News, Exame, Estadão, Forbes (US), Yahoo Finance, O Globo, Conjur, Correio Braziliense, DCI, StartSe, among others.

Languages Spoken

English

Education