Fabio Perrone Campos Mello is the Managing Partner of Campos Mello Advogados in cooperation with DLA Piper and is based in the firm’s Rio de Janeiro office. He focuses his practice for over 20 (twenty) years on representing companies from the Real Estate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Hospitality & Leisure and Life Sciences industry sectors in transactional matters.  

As managing partner of CMA for over 10 years, Fabio was responsible for transforming CMA – until 2005, a firm focused in Real Estate – into a full-service firm, located in the most relevant financial centers in Brazil. He also led the firm in the implementation of innovative digital governance and management standards. 

Fabio works alongside C level, investors, developers, managers, advising on matters from business formation and establishing investment platforms for clients moving into new markets for the first time, cross-border portfolio acquisitions and restructuring, as well as real estate investments. Fabio’s services include guiding clients in the acquisition and disposition of corporate shareholdings or assets; executing due diligence procedures, divestitures, M&A transactions (including management buyouts and takeovers); assisting in the acquisition or transfer of ownership of equity interests, minority shareholdings and the structuring of public offerings of shares. 

He also advises domestic and international companies in real estate matters. He focuses on the development of large-scale real estate, hospitality and leisure, built-to-suit, construction and infrastructure projects. 

His portfolio of clients includes big pharmas, large medical devices companies, clinical research organizations, multinationals and real estate investors entering into the Latin America market, investment funds and big players from the Hospitality and Leisure sector.  

His previous experience was extensively on mergers and acquisitions deals in the Real Estate and Consumer Good sectors in others major Brazilian firm [1996-2001] and [2002-2005]. 

Recognitions

• Best Lawyers – Brazil

Real Estate Law: 2020-2024

Lawyer of The Year – Real Estate Law (Brazil): 2019

• Latin Lawyer 250 – Brazil

Real Estate & Tourism: 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023

Corporate and M&A: 2020, 2022 and 2023

• Leaders League – Brazil

Real Estate: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023

Corporate and M&A: 2016, 2017 and 2023

Private Equity: 2017

• Legal 500 – Latin America

Corporate and M&A: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2022 and 2023

Real Estate: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023

• Who’s Who Legal

Global Leader – Hospitality: 2020 and 2022

Global Leader – Real Estate: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024

National Leader – Brazil – Real Estate: 2021 and 2022

Thought Leaders – Brazil – Real Estate: 2021

• Chambers Latin America

Real Estate: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018

Corporate/M&A: 2010, 2015 and 2016

• IFRL 1000

M&A: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024

Banking (Practice area): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024

Capital markets: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024

Real estate, Banking (sector), Financial services, Tourism, Transport: 2020, 2021 and 2024

• Análise Advocacia

Real Estate Law: 2019

Education 

• OPM Harvard Business School, 2018
• M., Corporate Law, New York University Law School, 2002
• Specialization, Foundations of American Law and Legal Education, Georgetown University 2001
• B.A., Economics and Corporate Law, Fundação Getulio Vargas 2000
• A. Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro 1998

Languages 

• Portuguese
• English
• Spanish
• Italian