Actively representing clients in Brazil and throughout Latin America for nearly half a century, Davis Polk has broad and varied experience advising international corporations, banks and other financial institutions, as well as sponsors, financial advisers and underwriters on:

To expand our strong position among international firms in Brazil and further enhance the services and capabilities we provide to our clients there, we established our São Paulo office in 2011, which is staffed with a number of the market’s most highly regarded international practitioners.

Included in that group are Manuel Garciadiaz and Maurice Blanco, each of whom has advised on a number of the most notable recent securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions and strategic investments in Brazilian history, as well as James Vickers, who is among the leading international project finance lawyers in Brazil and Latin America more generally.