José Luiz Homem de Mello

Practice Areas

Corporate, M&A, Banking and Financial Regulation, Finance and Foreign Exchange and Capital Markets.

Career

José Luiz Homem de Mello has been a partner at Pinheiro Neto Advogados since 2005. He is specialized in corporate finance, including financing transactions, regulatory matters, capital markets and M&A, and advises regularly many financial institutions and fintechs. José Luiz participates in the main transactions, IPOs, fund raising, and projects of the financial services industry, advising domestic and international clients in new products, fintech solutions, payments, asset management, subordinate and hybrid instruments, virtual assets and tokenization, as well as joint ventures and corporate reorganizations.

Professional Memberships

Brazilian Bar and NY State Bar.

Brazilian Institute of Investor Relations (IBRI): Member of the Legal Committee.

Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC): Member of the Financial Institutions Governance Committee.

Personal

LL.M. from the University of Chicago

Executive MBA in Finance from the Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Insper)

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV)

Bachelor's Degree in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP)

International experience: Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, USA.