Felipe Barreto Veiga

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

Felipe Barreto Veiga is the founder and Managing Partner of BVA – Barreto Veiga Advogados and a senior partner in the firm’s M&A, Private Equity, Debt Capital Markets and Venture Capital practices. He is widely recognized as one of Brazil’s most active transactional lawyers, having led hundreds of domestic and cross-border transactions involving complex strategic acquisitions, private equity investments, venture financings and high-profile corporate restructurings.

Felipe regularly advises Brazilian and international clients — including privately held and publicly listed companies, startups, investment funds, banks, financial institutions, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and high/ultra-high net worth individuals — on mid-cap and high-value transactions across a broad range of industries, with particular strength in technology, digital economy, financial services, infrastructure and growth-driven consolidations and roll-up strategies. His practice includes a significant number of cross-border deals, representing Brazilian clients in outbound transactions and foreign investors acquiring or investing in Brazilian assets.

Consistently ranked among Brazil’s most active M&A, Venture Capital and Private Equity lawyers by TTR Data, Felipe is recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers Brazil as a leading lawyer in Corporate/M&A and Venture Capital.

He founded BVA over a decade ago with a strong entrepreneurial and business-oriented vision, building the firm from the ground up and transforming it into one of Brazil’s most respected full-service transactional law firms, highly regarded for its strategic, pragmatic and results-driven approach. Clients frequently describe Felipe as a trusted advisor who combines technical excellence with deep commercial awareness.

Member of the Corporate and M&A Committee and the Asset Management and Investment Funds Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), and of the Business Law Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA). He is also a member of the IBA, ABA, AIJA – Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats, International Trademark Association (INTA), and the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB).

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.