FIUS's Banking & Financial Transactions practice advises Brazilian and multinational companies, institutional investors, and financial institutions on all aspects of financial, banking and capital-markets transactions — including debt restructuring, structured lending, project finance, BNDES transactions, fund formation and operations, fintechs and Open Banking, and capital-markets deals.
Among our main areas of practice:
- Debt restructuring;
- Bilateral and syndicated loans and financings;
- Incentivized, cross-border and structured financings, and BNDES transactions (PPE, FINIMP, FINEP and others);
- Export financing and trade finance;
- Structured receivables assignments;
- Foreign-exchange transactions and derivatives;
- Asset securitization;
- Issuances of debentures, CRAs, CRIs, promissory notes, commercial notes and other securities;
- Investment funds (FIDC, FIP, FIM, FII and Fiagro);
- CVM regulatory matters;
- Banking and payment-institution regulation;
- Transactions involving financial institutions, fintechs, instant payments and open banking;
- Cryptocurrency and blockchain;
- Central Bank regulatory matters and defense in related administrative proceedings;
- Project finance and public-infrastructure financing.
Other practice areas
01Corporate / M&ACorporate structuring, M&A, joint ventures, estate planning and holding-company governance.02Labor & EmploymentAdvisory and litigation across labor and employment — workforce restructurings, union relations, C-level matters and outsourcing.03Commercial ContractsDrafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements — M&A, joint ventures, distribution and high-value services.04Real EstateStructured real estate transactions — development, portfolio due diligence, securitization, master-planning and build-to-suit.05ComplianceEnd-to-end integrity programs — policies, training, internal investigations and leniency-agreement defense.06Environmental & SustainabilityPermitting, liabilities, structured ESG, carbon credits and compliance with Brazil's increasingly complex environmental framework.