Career

Gustavo is a partner at the firm and practices in the areas of Corporate Law, M&A, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Investment Funds, Structured Finance, and Project Finance. He has extensive experience advising private and institutional investors, foreign clients, multinational corporations, and Brazilian companies of all sizes on complex domestic and cross-border transactions. 

His practice combines strong legal expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset, with particular focus on transactions in the energy, technology, financial markets, and agribusiness sectors. He regularly leads buy-side and sell-side M&A processes, corporate structurings, joint ventures, private capital raisings, and structured financings, with a consistent focus on delivering commercial solutions aligned with his clients’ strategic objectives. 

Before joining the firm, Gustavo spent 10 years as an attorney at a leading full-service law firm in São Paulo and 8 years as an attorney and partner at another major full-service law firm in São Paulo. He also gained international experience as a foreign associate at a U.S. law firm in New York, where he developed deep familiarity with Anglo-American practice standards and the execution of cross-border transactions. 

Heads the firm’s legal technology and AI practice. 

Education LL.M. in Corporate Law — Insper, São Paulo LL.M. — University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law) 

Track Record

• Apollo Global Management in structured finance
• BRZ Investimentos in an M&A transaction with TecFit
• BTG Pactual in M&A and Project Finance transactions
• Etiqueta Única in the sale of a minority stake to Iguatemi
• General Atlantic in M&A transactions (investment and divestment)
• GIC in M&A transactions
• MEZ Energia in various M&A and Project Finance transactions involving BTG Pactual, Itaú BBA, and Santander
• Permira in matters related to the CVM
• Prisma Capital in the M&A transaction of Bionexo and CVM-related matters
• Votorantim Cimentos in an M&A transaction with Atlas Renewable Energy
• XP Investimentos in proprietary M&A transactions