Financial Services

Our Financial Services Industry Group brings together several legal practices, including Litigation, Investment Funds, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Markets, Restructuring and Insolvency, Banking Regulatory and Tax, to provide integrated and strategic legal advisory to all players in the financial sector.

Our multidisciplinary team serves large, mid-sized and small banks, international financial institutions, payment institutions, payment scheme owners, fintechs, asset managers, market infrastructures, technology companies serving the financial sector, and non-financial companies seeking to develop a financial arm. The integration across our different practice areas is what enables us to deliver comprehensive solutions, combining regulatory, transactional, tax and litigation expertise in a coordinated and client-outcome-oriented manner.

We closely monitor the key trends and transformations in the Brazilian financial sector, with a scope of work ranging from the incorporation and authorization of new institutions to highly complex transactions involving multiple jurisdictions and regulators, including financial sector M&As, banking regulation, crypto assets, tokenization, open finance, payments and governance of regulated institutions. This integration, combined with our extensive industry experience, reinforces the firm’s ability to deliver smart and strategic legal guidance in a sector marked by constant innovation and regulatory transformation.

Our practice involves specialized advisory in the following areas:

Banking and financial regulation, including the incorporation of institutions regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil.
Structured and syndicated financing, trade finance, cross-border transactions and debt instruments in local and international markets.
Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures in the financial sector, including transactions involving asset managers, financial institutions and fintechs, with specialized corporate advisory for regulated institutions.
Debt and equity issuances, securitizations and public offerings in local and international markets.
Structuring of investment funds, including FIDCs, FIPs, FIIs and Fiagros, and regulatory advisory before CVM and Anbima.
Derivatives, foreign exchange and foreign investments, including regulatory and contractual aspects.
Payments, open finance, tokenization and Bank-as-a-Service (BaaS) solutions.
Debt restructuring, distressed assets and judicial reorganization, including DIP financing.
Specialized litigation in the financial sector, focused on value preservation and business continuity.
Tax advisory and litigation for financial institutions and development of new investment structures.