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Maria Fernanda Fidalgo
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Experience
Maria Fernanda is experienced in advising local and foreign managers, sponsors, and institutional investors on establishing, structuring, fundraising, and conducting transactions involving investment funds – particularly structured funds such as private equity and credit funds. She also advises on complex tax matters involving investment funds and transactions in financial and capital markets linked to the third-party asset management industry.
Education
Bachelor of Laws – Universidade Federal da Bahia;
Postgraduate Degree in Tax Law – Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).
Mattos Filho promotes seven lawyers to its partnership
Mattos Filho has announced seven lawyers have been promoted to the firm’s partnership. The new partners work across six different practice areas: litigation & arbitration, finance, asset management services & investment funds, infrastructure & energy, corporate/M&A, and tax.
Six of the seven new partners are women. In the last five years, internal partner promotions at the firm have been practically even in terms of men (31) and women (29) – 52% and 48%, respectively.
Click here and read the article on The Latin American Lawyer.
Mattos Filho promotes seven to partner
Brazilian Elite firm Mattos Filho has promoted seven associates to partner across several practice areas, just weeks after Pedro Whitaker de Souza Dias took the helm as the firm’s managing partner.
The lawyers joined the firm’s senior rank today. Joana Pimentel, Maria Fernanda Fidalgo, Ligia Godoy, Natália Mauad, Marcelo Guimarães and Natalie Matos are based in São Paulo, whilst Natália de Santis works at the firm’s Rio de Janiero outpost. The firm now counts 144 partners and increases the number of women in its senior rank to 36.1%. According to the LL250 Performance Index, women make up on average 40.4% of partnerships in Brazil.
Click here and read the article on Latin Lawyer.
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