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Pablo Sorj
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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.
Education
Bachelor of Laws – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ);
Master of Laws (LL.M.) – Stanford Law School;
Executive MBA – Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais (Ibmec).
Recognitions
Chambers Brazil – Project Finance (2023 – 2025), Projects (2012 – 2023) and Corporate/Commercial: Rio de Janeiro (2022 – 2025) Project Development (2024 – 2025);
Chambers Global – Projects (2011 – 2024), Project Finance (2024 – 2026) and Project Development (2025 – 2026);
LACCA Approved: Banking & Finance: Thought Leaders (2022 – 2023, 2025) and Recognized (2015 – 2021);
Latin Lawyer 250 – Banking & Finance (2020 – 2026), Project Finance & Infrastructure (2020 – 2026), Energy (2020 – 2026) and Management (2020 – 2023);
Legal 500 – Projects & Infrastructure: Leading Partner (2013 – 2026);
Análise Advocacia – Financial Transactions (2019 – 2024), Energy (2018, 2021) and Rio de Janeiro (2019 – 2024);
Euromoney Expert Guides – Project Finance (2022);
IFLR 1000 – Banking; Project Development; Project Finance: Market Leader (2017 – 2025);
Lexology Index Awards – Project Finance Lawyer of the Year (2025);
Lexology Index Global – Project Finance (2019 – 2022), Oil & Gas (2021 – 2024), Power/Electricity (2019 – 2024), Banking & Finance (2022 – 2023) and Thought Leaders: Global Elite Project Finance (2019, 2023 – 2024);
Lexology Index Brazil – Project Finance (2014 – 2022, 2024 – 2025), Energy (2018 – 2025), Banking (2022, 2025) and Thought Leaders Brazil: Project Finance (2020 – 2024).
DEAL: I Squared Capital acquires Brazil’s Elea Data Centers
Two Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP offices, Brazil’s Mattos Filho have helped US infrastructure investor I Squared Capital acquire a controlling stake in Brazilian company Elea Data Centers.
Click here to access the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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DEAL: Ecopetrol acquires stake in Brazil’s Brava Energia
Mayer Brown LLP in Houston and its affiliated Brazilian firm Tauil & Chequer Advogados have helped Colombian state-owned oil company Ecopetrol acquire a stake in Brazil’s Brava Energia.
To fund these transactions, it is obtaining a bridge loan. Mattos Filho is advising the lenders in that deal.
Click here to access the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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DEAL: Serra Verde gets US$565 million DFC financing for rare earth project
Brazilian mining company Serra Verde has hired four White & Case LLP offices, Brazil’s Mattos Filho and Uruguay’s Arcia, Storace, Fuentes, Medina Abogados to obtain a US$565 million financing from the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to expand its local rare earths project.
Click here to acess the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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