• Area
  • Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

We have extensive experience in legal advice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and have being recommended by relevant sector guides and rankings. We advise national and international companies, family offices and family businesses, foreign investors, investment funds and institutional investors.
Having a pro-business, agile and uncomplicated stance, we at Finocchio & Ustra’s Mergers and Acquisitions area advise our clients on several complex corporate operations focused on buy-side and sell-side M&As, investments, joint ventures and restructuring operations, both domestic and international, and cross-borders.
As a full service firm, we work in a multidisciplinary and efficient manner by providing our clients with a complete and practical solution, both in consultancy and in project implementation. This allows us to assemble multidisciplinary teams of professionals with specific specialties according to the needs of each operation.

Among the services our M&A practice area render, the following stand out:

  • Planning, structuring, negotiation and implementation of investments, purchase and sale of equity interests, joint ventures or strategic alliances, as well as private equity, venture capital, growth investment and search fund investment operations;
  • Structuring and implementation of any form of corporate and/or asset reorganization to carry out M&A operations;
  • Conduct legal due diligence;
  • Negotiation of shareholder/partner agreements and all contracts related to the M&A transaction;
  • Personalized monitoring of post-M&A obligations;
  • Preparation of a manual with visual law of all post-closing obligations of the operation, including an earn-out flowchart, compensation and governance rules, as applicable.

Partners and Area Coordinators

Partner | FELIPE LOPES DE FARIA CERVONE
Partner | ANDREA OMETTO BITTAR TINCANI
Head | RACHEL CERQUEIRA SALVADOR MARQUES