- Area
- Banking and Corporate Finance
Finocchio & Ustra’s Banking and Financial Transactions area advises Brazilian and multinational companies, institutional investors and financial institutions on all aspects of financial, banking and capital market operations, including debt restructuring, structured loan operations, project financing, operations with BNDES [national bank for the funding of economic and social development], creation and transactions with funds, fintechs and open banking and capital market transactions.
Among the main areas of activity, the following stand out:
- Debt restructuring;
- Bilateral and syndicated loans and financing;
- Loans and incentivized financing, cross-border, structured and BNDES (PPE [financing to foster job creation], FINIMP [fund of importing activities], FINEP [study and projects funding], among others) transactions;
- Export financing and trade finance;
- Assignments of structured credits;
- Exchange and derivatives operations;
- Asset securitization;
- Issuance of Debentures, CRA [agribusiness receivables certificate], CRI [real estate receivables certificate], Promissory Notes, Commercial Notes, among other securities;
- Investment funds (FIDC, FIP, FIM, FII and Fiagro);
- CVM Regulatory;
- Regulation of banks and payment institutions;
- Operations involving financial institutions, fintechs, instant payments and open banking;
- Cryptocurrency and blockchain;
- Central Bank Regulatory and defense in related administrative proceedings;
- Project finance and public infrastructure financing.
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