Institutional News
- 15 March 2022
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Lefosse announces new partners and expands Restructuring and Insolvency and Dispute Resolution practices
Felipe Camara and Julio Neves come to reinforce the law firm’s multidisciplinary full-service work and strategy
Lefosse, one of the largest law firms in Brazil, announces two new partners: Felipe Camara comes to reinforce the Restructuring and Insolvency practice and Julio Neves joins the Dispute Resolution area, bringing a team of six professionals. The expansion aligns to the firm’s full-service and multidisciplinary work.
“In an increasingly dynamic market, companies demand highly interdisciplinary and detailed work. Therefore, the arrivals of Felipe and Julio at Lefosse are part of the strategy of our offer of tailor-made solutions for our clients”, comments Rodrigo Junqueira, Lefosse’s managing partner.
On the Restructuring and Insolvency practice, Camara’s entry focuses on representing clients in renegotiations and transactions, especially mergers and acquisitions, in distressed environments, in addition to extrajudicial and judicial restructurings.
On the Dispute Resolution side, Neves and his team expand Lefosse’s litigation support throughout the corporate lifecycle, from the creation of activities (risk mapping for investment modeling) and conducting business disputes, to the strategic planning of divestments.
The rise in business involving companies in crisis is a strategic investment opportunity and, at the same time, offers liquidity and alternatives for exiting judicial recovery. “It is in this context that I join Lefosse, a law firm with recognized work in innovative and complex transactions, to contribute with personalized work to clients”, emphasizes Felipe Camara.
“The litigation practice takes care of important business risks and challenges, working interdisciplinary with all practices of the law firm. I am very motivated to join my expertise to that of the Lefosse team”, says Julio Neves.
With the entries of Camara, Neves and team, Lefosse now has 49 partners and more than 450 professionals in the legal body, in a total of 630 people, adding up to the administrative structure (Business Services).
About the new partners
Felipe Camara holds a law degree from the University of São Paulo (USP), an executive MBA in management and finance from Harvard Business School and an LLM in Corporate Governance and Practice at Stanford Law School. He has more than twenty years of national and international experience, having worked for about a decade in law firms based in the United States, specializing in restructuring with a transactional bias and awards by prominent international directories, such as Latin Finance Awards and IFLR Awards Americas.
Julio Neves is a Ph.D and Master in Civil Law from the University of São Paulo (USP), graduated from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He is a post-graduation professor at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and a member of the Arbitration Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and of the M&A Disputes Committee of the Brazilian Institute of Business Law (IBRADEMP).
About Lefosse
Lefosse is a full service law firm that offers expert consultancy in all areas of Law with solid experience in sophisticated legal services in domestic and international scenarios. It has 49 partners with extensive experience in strategic markets, and it has been recognized in the main global legal awards and rankings, such as Chambers Brazil 2021, The Legal 500 and Escritório Elite 2021, by Latin Lawyer. Lefosse invests in inclusion, diversity and a multidisciplinary work approach in the areas of Law.
Practices: Corporate and M&A, Capital Markets, Tax Law, Banking and Finance, Private Equity, Compliance, Real Estate, Wealth Planning, Restructuring and Insolvency, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, Labor Law, Competition and Antitrust, Tech, IP and Data Protection, Anti-corruption and Regulatory Investigation, Environmental, Public Law and Regulation, Corporate Criminal, Energy and Infrastructure, Investment Funds, Oil and Gas and Life Sciences & Healthcare.
