OUR AREAS

BANKING AND FINANCING

Legal Practice Areas

BANKING AND FINANCING

Our team boasts experts in the financial and capital markets who can offer strategic advice to our clients.

CMA’s full-service specialized and experienced structure is geared towards providing tailor-made advice in debt transactions and in Central Bank and CVM regulatory issues.

Banking and capital market law improves on a daily basis so that legal advisors must have up-to-date knowledge of national and international regulation. CMA’s expert team maintains ongoing focus on market developments so as to provide the client with a comprehensive understanding of their legal and business impacts.

 

We serve a variety of companies from a wide range of industries. Our services include, for example:

  • Legal assistance in the organization of financial institutions and other government-supervised institutions and in obtaining the necessary authorizations from regulatory bodies;
  • We can provide advice in relation to diverse banking operations and, more specifically, in funding for industrial and infrastructure projects. Our services in banking and finance law include advice mainly in:
    • Bilateral and syndicated loan agreements;
    • Funding for infrastructure and other projects;
    • Leveraged buyouts and other forms acquisition funding;
    • Structured transactions;
    • Bank letters of credit and other debt instruments;
    • Subordinated debt, mezzanine lines of credit and other regulatory capital transactions;
    • Import and export funding;
    • Senior lines of credit, with or without collateral;
    • Stock and debt offerings in Brazil and abroad by Brazilian government and non-government issuers;
    • Sale of credit portfolios, delinquent or not;
    • Derivatives and treasury transactions;
    • Debt restructuring and liability management;
    • Asset-backed securitization and related transactions.

Recognitions

Analise Advocacia 500
Leaders League
Chambers Latin America
Chambers Global
The Legal 500
IFLR 1000