Gabriel Carvalho is a corporate attorney with over 10 years of experience, licensed to practice law in Brazil and California. Throughout his career, he has advised companies on strategic business transactions, including international mergers and acquisitions, project financing, startup funding, and counseling public companies. His practice focuses on corporate reorganizations of publicly held and private companies, purchase and sale of assets, joint ventures, and foreign investments in Brazil. His main clients include private equity funds, investment banks, controlling shareholders, technology companies, and multinational corporations from sectors such as infrastructure, energy, finance, insurance, and retail.
Bar admissions / Professional QualificationsBrazilCalifornia
EXPERIENCE
Buy-side assistance to Mubadala Development Company on the restructuring of the investment made in EBX Holding in the amount of USD 2 billion
Buy-side assistance to L Catterton on the USD 100 million investment in Cantu Pneus
Buy-side assistance to Cantu on the USD 120 million acquisition of GP Pneus
Netshoes and Magalu merger
Defense against USD 1 billion hostile takeover bid at CCR and subsequent renegotiation of corporate governance
Buy-side assistance to MRV on the USD 220 million acquisition of AHS Residential
Sell-side assistance to Andrade Gutierrez and Camargo Corrêa on the USD 200 million sale of Sistema Produtor São Lourenço S.A. to China Gezhouba
Assistance to Banco Santander and Banco Bradesco on the restructuring of the USD 740 million debt of Porto do Açu – Latin Lawyer’s Infrastructure Deal (2015)
Sell-side assistance to Ambar on its USD 20 million series C investment round
Languages
English
Portuguese
Education
Master of Laws (LL.M), University of Southern California - Gould School of Law, 2018
magna cum laude
Bachelor of Laws – Emphasis on Business Law, Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro, 2014
