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Marcela da Fonte Freire
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Experience
Marcela has more than 10 years of experience in transactions spanning the entire life cycle of real estate investments, including acquisition, financing, development, and divestment across various types of real estate assets.
Her practice spans from traditional transactions to complex deals structured through corporate vehicles and real estate financing in the capital markets.
She has extensive expertise across sectors including data centers and digital infrastructure, residential and commercial developments, hospitality, energy, agriculture, industrial investments, and carbon credit generation projects.
Education
Bachelor of Laws – Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE);
Postgraduate degree in Business Law – Pontifícia Universidade de São Paulo (PUC-SP);
Master’s Degree (LL.M) – King’s College London.
Recognitions
Análise Advocacia – Real Estate (2026) and Electronics (2026);
Análise Advocacia Mulher – Real Estate (2026), Electronics (2026) and São Paulo (2026).
Mattos Filho promotes six lawyers to partner
Mattos Filho has promoted six lawyers to partner, a move that brings the firm’s total partnership to 144. Four of the six newly promoted partners are women. The promotions span six practice areas and cover offices in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, reflecting growth in areas including Infrastructure and Energy, Tax, Corporate/M&A, Real Estate, Wealth Management, and Litigation and Arbitration.
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Mattos Filho promotes six to partnership
Brazilian Elite firm Mattos Filho has bolstered several practice areas by promoting six lawyers to partnership in its São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro offices.
The firm announced the promotions of Bárbara Carnevalli, Luciana Cordeiro, Luis Bologna, Marcela Freire and Pedro Falcone in São Paulo today, at the same time that it revealed that Vanessa Frota had joined its Rio office.
Click here to access the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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