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Strategy

Legal

Intelligence

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Trust

Legal

Strategy

Legal

Intelligence

Legal

Trust

THE VmB DNA

We are a unique business law firm. With customized services, pragmatic thinking and an assertive approach, we have gained an invaluable business experience to advising on challenging situations and pursuing high-performance strategies.

VMB is Strategy, Intelligence and Trust.

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Strategy

We are advisors, strategy specialists, combining a multidisciplinary view with executive experience in highly complex settings. Our diagnosing, planning and execution capabilities are recognized in Brazil and abroad.

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Intelligence

Our global network is conducive to a collaborative approach for integrated solutions. The experience gained from leading legal teams of major companies enables us to manage interfaces with focus and efficiency.

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Trust

We build trusting relationships to advise on making informed decisions. Our care and commitment to delivering consistent solutions foster long-term relationships.

Who is VMB
behind

Partner and co-founder of VMB Jurídica. Attorney specializing in business law, with wide experience in complex projects, infrastructure developments, innovative contracting arrangements, international transactions and plea bargain and leniency agreements negotiation. For over 20 years, Adriano has taken leading roles in the legal, corporate governance and institutional relations areas of the Odebrecht Group. He served on Boards of Directors in infrastructure, energy, oil and gas companies and concessionaires. Adriano holds a Law degree from Universidade Federal da Bahia.

Partner and co-founder of VMB Jurídica. Attorney specialized in business law with vast experience in international transactions, complex projects and negotiations, strategic disputes, internal investigations, plea agreements and crisis management. Gustavo has extensive experience in managing multidisciplinary teams handling legal, compliance, corporate governance and government affairs. He has held leadership roles for over 18 years at Braskem and in many companies within the Odebrecht Group in Brazil and abroad. He worked at law firms in Brazil and in the United States. Gustavo received his Masters of Law degree (LL.M) from Columbia University (NY), where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and holds a Masters of Law degree with focus in Public Law from PUC-SP. He also has a degree of Specialist in Tax Law from PUC-SP and a law degree from UFBA. He has lectured at undergraduate and postgraduate programs at PUC-SP and wrote books and articles in specialized journals.

Partner at VMB Jurídica. Attorney specializing in corporate law, with long experience in mergers and acquisitions, national and international investment projects, including under project finance structure, joint ventures and private placements, shareholder agreements, financial and capital market operations, infrastructure projects, crisis management and negotiation of collaboration and leniency agreements. Experienced in managing multidisciplinary teams in legal, corporate governance and compliance departments, she has held leading roles in multiple companies from the Odebrecht Group. Marta holds a law degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and a post-graduate degree in Law and Economics from Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

Background VmB

Corporations and Corporate Governance

  • Redesigning, implementing and managing corporate governance and compliance programs in global and publicly traded companies
  • Extensive experience in the governance of family-owned and publicly traded companies, negotiation of JVs with business partners of different profiles and in different industries, and adjustment of governance structures to different business contexts and natures
  • Management of corporate matters in publicly and privately held companies in Brazil and abroad, including corporate planning and restructuring activities

Background VmB

Compliance and Leniency

  • Negotiation of plea bargain agreements with different authorities in Brazil and abroad, worth over US$ 2.5 billion
  • Independent investigations conducted in accordance with the Brazilian anti-corruption law and the FCPA standards
  • Active involvement in monitorships supervised by the Department of Justice (DoJ), the Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) and the Brazilian Prosecutor´s Office
  • Structuring and management of compliance programs and departments in publicly and privately held companies

Background VmB

Infrastructure and Industrial Projects

  • Airport, water and sewage, highway, power plant and subway projects in Brazil and abroad, worth over US$ 10 billion in investments, including negotiation of funding contracts, EPC contracts and shareholder agreements
  • Negotiating different types of contracts for the construction and funding of major industrial projects, drilling rigs, oil production vessels and gas pipelines, worth over US$ 10 billion, in Brazil and abroad
  • Negotiation of funding for greenfield projects, in Brazil and abroad, in the manufacturing, power generation, infrastructure and oil and gas industries, including project finance structures, involving state and private banks, development banks, multilateral agencies and capital market operations totaling more than US$ 20 billion
  • Advising and negotiating export financing contracts for engineering and construction services with the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES)
  • Negotiating loans with multilateral organizations and international development agencies, including the World Bank, IFC, IDB, CAF, JBIC, SACE and KExim.

Background VmB

Mergers and Acquisitions and Asset Purchase and Sales

  • Purchase and sale transactions of transnational and publicly traded companies, devising contract models and conducting due diligences, management presentations, negotiating SPAs, public offerings, handling competition and capital market affairs, in Brazil and abroad, in the energy, pulp and paper, mining, telecommunications, oil and gas, infrastructure and petrochemical industries, with added value exceeding US$ 15 billion
  • Negotiating and structuring JVs in Brazil and abroad, including negotiation of shareholders agreements and liaising with strategic financial partners and family groups, in the transport, logistics, urban mobility, sanitation, industrial utilities and oil and gas industries.
  • Coordinating post-merger integration activities in Brazil and abroad, including cultural and governance integration, capitalizing synergies, SPA administration and management of post-closing events

Background VmB

Disputes and Crises

  • Active role in large scale operational, financial and reputational crisis, arising from industrial and construction accidents, mining activities, corruption affairs, corporate fraud, strikes and demonstrations, among others
  • Conducting and negotiating complex corporate disputes, including delisting and compulsory redemption of shares
  • Working in higher courts to gather court precedents in strategic cases involving multi-million-dollar disputes attracting massive media attention
  • Strategic litigation cases involving collection of receivables, resulting in cash recovery of US$ 5 billion
  • Handling and negotiating lawsuits and arbitration in Brazil and abroad, worth more than US$ 2 billion

Background VmB

Business and Finance

  • Experience in boards of directors of companies in Brazil and abroad, and utility concessionaires in the infrastructure, defense, construction, petrochemical and oil and gas industries
  • Structuring debt operations in the capital market, in Brazil and abroad, by issuing debentures, bonds and notes
  • Advising on securitization of receivables and exports
  • Debt renegotiation, financial restructuring, court-supervised and out-of-court reorganization and bankruptcy of large industrial, infrastructure and financial companies

Publications

Por VMB Jurídica

Comunicado do Portugal Ribeiro Advogados e VMB Jurídica aos seus clientes sobre a Reforma Tributária e seu impacto sobre os setores de infraestrutura.

10/08/2021

Contact

Rua Mourato Coelho, 1404, conj. 37
Vila Madalena, São Paulo/SP
CEP 05417-002