With experience across a wide range of sectors, industries, and business segments, Pinheiro Guimarães’ corporate law practice is recognized as a market leader in innovative and highly complex transactions, and is recommended by numerous specialized publications, with particular distinction for complex transactions involving companies of varying sizes and industries. The corporate practice encompasses Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Reorganizations, Private Equity, and Venture Capital, as well as ongoing advisory services on corporate matters involving Brazilian companies.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Pinheiro Guimarães advises clients on domestic and cross-border transactions, including divestitures, acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, public offerings, joint ventures, spin-offs, mergers, and debt-to-equity conversions, involving entities ranging from large publicly traded companies with shares listed in Brazil and abroad to privately held companies, joint ventures, and newly formed entities.

With extensive experience advising buyers, sellers, management, and target companies, Pinheiro Guimarães provides comprehensive support at every stage of mergers and acquisitions transactions, including legal due diligence, corporate structuring, regulatory analysis, and tax planning, drafting and negotiation of transaction documents and agreements, regulatory approvals, closing procedures, and post-closing administration.

Pinheiro Guimarães has particular expertise in corporate restructurings and acquisitions and divestitures involving publicly traded companies, including related matters such as tender offers of varying complexity.

Pinheiro Guimarães’ M&A attorneys work closely with specialists from the firm’s other practice areas, delivering a multidisciplinary service of the highest quality — a hallmark of the firm’s practice.

Private Equity

Pinheiro Guimarães is a market leader in advising private equity funds and portfolio companies receiving this type of investment in Brazil. Since the early days of the industry in Brazil, Pinheiro Guimarães has developed deep knowledge across all stages of the private equity investment cycle — from fund formation, fundraising, investment opportunity evaluation, and manager advisory services, investment and shareholders’ agreement negotiations, corporate governance matters, portfolio management, corporate reorganizations, and regulatory issues, to exit strategies and fund liquidation.

Venture Capital

Pinheiro Guimarães also advises venture capital funds and other domestic and international investors, as well as startups, on investment and financing transactions. The firm is equipped to provide advisory services at every stage of venture capital investment — including general legal advice to venture capital funds, funding rounds and equity investments, startup formation, legal due diligence, and assistance in implementing tax and contractual structures for businesses, including those involving multiple jurisdictions.

Advisory Services

Pinheiro Guimarães brings together professionals with broad experience in corporate law, with particular focus on regulations issued by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), B3 S.A. – Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão, and ANBIMA – Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association. This expertise enables Pinheiro Guimarães to advise clients on the corporate routines of publicly traded and privately held companies and other business entities, including compliance with applicable corporate legislation and regulations and, where applicable, adherence to requirements set forth by the CVM and B3 S.A. – Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão. The firm is regularly engaged in complex consultations for which it develops and implements creative and innovative solutions.

Pinheiro Guimarães also represents companies and their officers and directors in administrative proceedings and enforcement actions before Brazilian market regulators, addressing and resolving the most complex and current issues related to corporate law and regulatory compliance.