Pablo Sorj

Practice Areas

Infrastructure & Energy; Eletric Power; Project Finance; Oil and Gas; Mining; Shipping & Ports; Finance; Energy Transition.

Career

As a partner at Mattos Filho, Pablo Sorj represents companies, investment funds and financial institutions with a wide range of transactions in the infrastructure and energy sectors. He advises on transactions concerning project finance, structured finance, and acquisition finance and assists with purchases and sales of infrastructure and energy assets.

Pablo has worked on over twenty 'Deal of the Year' transactions. He is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer in Project Finance by Chambers and Partners (Band 1) and Who's Who Legal (Thought Leaders: Global Elite Project Finance), as well as in Projects and Infrastructure by the Legal 500 (Leading Lawyer) and IFLR (Market Leader).

Pablo previously worked at New York's Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as a foreign attorney. He is currently the chairman of the Brazilian Bar Association's (OAB-RJ) Project Finance Committee, co-president of the Stanford Law School Alumni Association in Brazil, and sector vice-president of the Brazilian Mediation and Arbitration Center (CBMA). A graduate of Rio de Janeiro's Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-RJ), Pablo holds an executive MBA from the Brazilian Institute of Capital Markets (IBMEC-RJ) and an LL.M. from Stanford Law School.

Languages Spoken

English and Portuguese.

Education

Practice Areas

Infrastructure & Energy; Electric Power; Project Finance; Oil and Gas; Mining; Shipping & Ports; Finance; Energy Transition

Career

Pablo represents companies, sponsors, investment funds and financial institutions in a wide variety of transactions in the infrastructure and energy sectors. He advises on asset sales and purchases, structured finance, acquisition finance and project finance.

Pablo previously worked as a foreign lawyer at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York, and is currently co-chair of the Stanford Law School Alumni Association in Brazil and Sector Vice President of the Brazilian Center for Mediation and Arbitration (CBMA).

He is consistently recognized as a leading Projects lawyer by Chambers (Band 1), IFLR (Market Leader), and The Legal 500 (Leading Lawyer), among others. Pablo holds a law degree from PUC-RJ, an executive MBA from IBMEC-RJ and an LLM from Stanford Law School.

Education