Flavio Leoni Siqueira

Languages Spoken

Portuguese and English.

Practice Areas

Flavio Leoni Siqueira is an expert in Corporate Law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, capital and financial markets, wealth planning (both onshore and offshore), and the carbon market. He has been instrumental in structuring and implementing several significant transactions in Brazil in recent years.

Career

From 2006 to 2007, he was an international associate at Shearman & Sterling, LLP in New York, in the capital markets group. Before co-founding Leoni Siqueira Advogados, he worked at Ulhôa Canto, Rezende & Guerra Advogados from 1997 to 2004 in Brazil.

Publications

"The Brazilian Funds and the Carbon Market," published in Portuguese in Valor newspaper on 28 April 2009 (p. D2).

"The Independent Investment Agents and Their Role in the Market," published in Portuguese in Valor newspaper on 28 May 2010 (p. D2).

"The Certified Emission Reductions as Securities and Financial Assets," published in Portuguese in Revista de Direito Bancário e do Mercado de Capitais (RDB), year 14, volume 51, January-March 2011.

"The Silicon Valley Angel Investment Structure Applied to Brazil," published in Portuguese in Mercado Financeiro & de Capitais – Regulação e Tributação, edited by Leonardo Freitas de Moraes e Castro, São Paulo, Editora Quartier Latin, 2015.

Education