Karina Lengler

Practice Areas

Corporate Law;

Mergers & Acquisitions;

Corporate Restructuring;

Capital Markets; and

Antitrust.

Career

Karina Lengler, partner in charge of the corporate and M&A practice and managing partner of the firm, has extensive experience both as in house and external counsel, in Brazil and the US, as is licensed to practice law in Brazil and New York. With over 27 years of practice in corporate law, including transactions involving Fortune 500 companies, Ms. Lengler has a successful track-record, domestically and abroad, along with a diverse background which allows her to be a more effective attorney, contributing to the firm’s clients with more practical and creative solutions to legal issues.

Ms. Lengler also holds an MBA from FGV in Brazil, and LLM from Columbia University) and got her L.LB from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP). Ms. Lengler has lived for over 10 years in the US, working in law firms in the East Coast (Shearman & Sterling in NY) and in the Midwest (Bryan Cave in St. Louis, MO). In Brazil, also worked as general counsel of a publicly held mining company.

Ms. Lengler has a very pro-business approach and a very practical manner of practicing law. Highly skilled in negotiating, she focusses on the outcome in order to close the transactions. “A win-win deal is an easier deal to close.” Ms. Lengler is detailed oriented but has a very broad knowledge of the various legal matters involved in a transaction through the extensive experience she has advising corporate clients in Brazil and abroad. Karina is fluent in English and French.

Clients

Throughout her career Ms. Lengler has advised The Coca-Cola Company, Daimler-Benz, Valmet, Audi, Volkswagen, Pfizer, Guerbet, RBS, GE, Human Genome Sciences, Deutsche Bank, Citibank, Morgan Stanley, IFC, ICI, Tintas Coral, Monsanto, Boeing, Miller Company, Bradesco, CBRE, Fibria Celulose, Case-New Holland, Qualicorp, TOTVS, Bank of America, EMBRAER, CBRE, SOLVAY, among others.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Brazil and New York.

Languages Spoken

Portuguese, English and French.

Work Highlights

Deals disclosed in the media:

Advised Bromeliads (Singapore/India) in its investment in the pharmaceutical market in Brazil

Advised the Sellers in the acquisition of Segware by Crescera Capital

Advised client in an M&A transaction with the BTG Pactual Bank for the construction and operation of the VIP Terminal at the Guarulhos Airport/SP

Advised client on the acquisition of aircraft for the Brazilian soccer team Palmeiras

https://ge.globo.com/futebol/times/palmeiras/noticia/2023/01/31/veja-como-e-e-quanto-pode-custar-modelo-do-aviao-que-leila-pereira-comprou-para-uso-do-palmeiras.ghtml

Advised client in an M&A transaction regarding the sale of UPI-Heftos through the structuring of a R$200MM Debtor in Possession financing (DIP)

http://www.brainmarket.com.br/2021/09/08/azevedo-travassos-avanca-na-aquisicao-da-heftos/

Advised client on the sale of Giusti Comunicação to FSB Comunicação

https://braziljournal.com/fsb-compra-giusti-comunicacao/

Advised client on the sale of the São Paulo Subway Line 6 – Concessão da Linha 6 – Laranja do Metrô de São Paulo (biggest infrastructure deal in Latam to date – R$15Bi)

https://sao-paulo.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,governo-de-sao-paulo-anuncia-retomada-das-obras-da-linha-6-laranja-do-metro,70003464112

https://www.eleconomista.es/empresas-finanzas/noticias/10809606/10/20/Acciona-cierra-el-mayor-contrato-de-infraestructuras-de-su-historia.html

Nominated lawyer to Credit Suisse in a $1.5 billion loan facility for Navistar International Corporation by the directory Latin Lawyer Deal Digest (February 2006)

Nominated lawyer to the underwriters for the Republic of Uruguay´s largest sovereign debt issues to date by the directory Latin Lawyer Deal Digest (March and June 2006)

Nominated lawyer to Deutsche Bank and Citigroup in Banco Hipotecario US$250MM bond offer by the directory Latin Lawyer Deal Digest (August 2006)

Acknowledged Contributor to “U.S. Registered Offers, Chapter 2, SEC Regulation Outside the United States, Mark Berman, ed., 5th Edition (Risk Books, 2005)”

Opinions with regard to Antitrust Law and as external counsel for Fortune 500 companies in Brazil published several times in two of the major national newspapers (“Gazeta Mercantil” and “Valor Econômico”)

Invited to be a guest speaker at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association

Advised client on the restructuring of all The Coca-Cola Company's bottling companies in the NE of Brazil.

Awards

Education