Mattos Filho in the media

Tickets are still available for Latin Lawyer’s 18th annual charity awards ceremony, which will be held on 9 May at Hotel Unique in São Paulo.
Machado Meyer Advogados is sponsoring the drinks reception, whilst Docket Navigator is a gold sponsor. Lefosse, Mattos Filho and Veirano Advogados are all bronze sponsors. Lexology is a supporting organisation.

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The latest Who Represents Latin America’s Biggest Banks? research, a study published by Latin Lawyer’s affiliate publication LACCA, reveals the most popular law firms among the region’s largest financial institutions in 2023.

Debt capital market transactions dominated deal-making activity in 2023, with banks actively providing debt financings to companies looking to reinforce short-term maturities. In contrast, the equity capital markets were quiet due to high inflation and interest rates.

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As part of LACCA’s latest research into Who represents Latin America’s biggest banks?, we examine which firms proved the most popular with the region’s leading financial institutions and the trends that dominated the Latin American banking sector in 2023.

Debt capital market transactions dominated deal-making activity in 2023, with banks actively providing debt financings to companies looking to reinforce short-term maturities. In contrast, the equity capital markets were quiet due to high inflation and interest rates.

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Don’t miss an interactive day of discussions with the legal heads of Carrefour, Natura, Suzano, Mercado Livre and more at LACCA’s annual conference in São Paulo on 9 May. Free for in-house to attend, the annual event will gather more than 150 lawyers from Latin America’s largest companies. Read on to secure your place now.

Returning to Hotel Unique, leading in-house lawyers and external practitioners will tackle the Brazilian tax reform, M&A, crisis management, compliance and the evolving challenges of ESG over the course of five panels.

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After charting its own course for nearly three decades, Brazil aligned its transfer pricing framework with the international guidelines of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development at the beginning of this year.

Bloomberg Tax spoke with Gil Mendes, tax partner at Mattos Filho in Sao Paulo, Brazil, about the profound novelty of the new framework and the challenges of adapting to it. Mendes came to Mattos Filho in 2018 after over 20 years at EY. He oversees significant corporate reorganizations and major merger and acquisition transactions in Brazil.

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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.

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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.

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Mattos Filho announced that Pedro Whitaker de Souza Dias (pictured) take up his role as the firm’s new managing partner effective Wednesday, April 3. Following a ten-month leadership transition period with former managing partner and firm founder Roberto Quiroga, Dias will now lead the firm’s management for the next three years. His goal is to continue the legacy of the founding partners, strengthen business development, and ensure the firm’s stability and long-term success.

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“When you think that you have nothing else left to achieve, you are wrong: you always need to think about what more can be done,” says Pedro Whitaker de Souza Dias, Mattos Filho’s new managing partner. Instead of resting on his laurels, Dias has his sights set on opportunities and strategic growth for Brazil’s largest law firm.

Dias officially took over as managing partner of the Elite firm today, replacing Roberto Quiroga.

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Brazil has traditionally taken a conservative stance on betting. but recent legal developments in the country have opened up new opportunities for the sector. The Brazilian market has become one of the most attractive for the global betting industry, thanks to the legalization of fixed-odds betting on sports and online games.

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