Financial and Capital Markets
With a distinguished practice in this area, FreitasLeite offers a broad legal assistance to its clients, conducting complex matters with the dynamism and efficiency required by market players.

• Legal counseling in analysis, development and implementation of structured financial transactions for private sector companies, banks, broker-dealers and insurance companies, including investment and financing transactions;
• Legal advice on the organization and operational planning of financial entities;
• Legal assistance in securities transactions, including public offering of shares, debentures and other securities, block-trades and tender offers.
• Assistance on behalf of asset managers, fund administrators, investment consultants, professional investors, family offices and service providers in the fund industry;
• Legal assistance in the set-up of investment funds and the development of management and distribution arrangements in the domestic and international markets;
• Set-up of special fund vehicles, such as Fundos de Investimento em Participações (local private equity funds), Fundos de Investmento em Empresas Emergentes (local emerging enterprises funds), Fundos de Investimento Imobilário (local real estate funds) and offshore funds, including hedge funds and private equity funds;
• Assistance with securitization transactions in multiple sectors of the economy, including the structuring of Fundos de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios (local securitization funds), Cédulas de Crédito Bancário (bank credit notes), Certificados de Recebíveis Imobiliários (real estate receivables certificate) and Contratos de Investimento Coletivo (collective investment contracts);
• Legal advice on agribusiness transactions, such as issue of Cédulas de Produto Rural (rural commodity note), Certificado de Depósito Agropecuário (agribusiness certificates of deposits), Warrant Agropecuário (agribusiness warrants), Letra de Crédito do Agronegócio (agribusiness credit bill), Certificado de Recebíveis do Agronegócio (agribusiness receivables certificate) and Certificado de Direito Creditório do Agronegócio (agribusiness receivables certificate);
• Assistance with investment arrangements involving foreign investments in the domestic financial and capital markets, and Brazilian investments in the international financial markets;
• Structuring of project finance transactions in several areas;
• Assistance with derivative and futures agreements, including ISDA and ISMA standardized agreements;
• Structuring and analysis of transactions involving publicly-held corporations, such as mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and transactions between related parties;
• Legal advice to market players on regulatory issues; and
• Legal representation of clients in administrative and court disputes involving financial entities, asset managers, companies and professional investors.