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Bruno Cerqueira

Capital Markets, Corporate & Securities

"Bruno Cerqueira stands out for his creativity, agility, transparency and availability to serve us, combined with fair fees and success."
The Legal 500 - Latin America, 2023

Visión general

Bruno Cerqueira draws from more than 15 years of experience, representing clients in capital markets, corporate, and banking law on fixed income transactions, securitizations, and investment funds.

Clients trust Bruno’s counsel on many securities, including:

  • Shares (IPOs, Follow-Ons, and public tender offerings)
  • Debentures (including for infrastructure)
  • Commercial papers
  • Shares in investment funds (receivables funds, private equity funds, real estate funds and multimarket funds)
  • Real estate-backed securities (real estate credit bills, real estate credit notes and real estate receivables certificates)
  • Agribusiness securities (rural producer notes, agribusiness credit certificates, agribusiness deposit certificates/agribusiness warrants, agribusiness credit bills and agribusiness receivables certificates).

Experiencia

  • Advised, as deal counsel, in the structuring of the 4th and 5th issuance of debentures by Simpar S.A., totaling BRL1,5 billion (2022).
  • Advised UBS Brasil Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários S.A. and Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A., as underwriters, on Jalles Machado S.A.’s 3rd issuance of “green bond” debentures totaling BRL350 million (2022).
  • Advised XP Investimentos Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários S.A. and UBS Brasil Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários S.A., as underwriters, on Jalles Machado S.A.’s
    1st issuance of debentures, totaling BRL451 million (2022).
  • Advised UBS Brasil Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários S.A., as Lead Underwriter, in the public offering, of the 201st Issue of Agribusiness Receivables Certificate ("CRA") of Eco Securitizadora de Direitos Creditórios do Agronegócio S.A., with total issue value of BRL50 million backed by Agribusiness Credit Rights Owed by Alcoeste Bioenergi Fernandópolis S.A. (2022).

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Reconocimeinto

  • "Bruno has a focused practice on financing and issuance of CRAs and CRIs. He is well known in the market.". Ranked as Band 4 for Agribusiness in Chambers Brazil Industries & Sectors, 2023
  • "Bruno Cerqueira and João Bertanha stand out for their creativity, agility, transparency and availability to serve us, combined with fair fees and success." Ranked as Recommend Lawyer for Capital Markets in The Legal 500 – Latin America, 2023
  • Ranked as Leading for Debt Capital Markets in Leaders League, 2023

Educación

  • Universidade de São Paulo, PhD in Commercial Law, (2022)
  • Universidade de São Paulo, Master of Law
  • Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)

Admisiones

  • Brasil, Sao Paulo

Idiomas

  • English
  • Portuguese

Participación Profesional y Comunitaria

  • Revista Capital Aberto’s Guest Lecturer for Workshops on Agribusiness Securities held in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and for the Refresher Capital Markets Course of 2017;
  • UQBAR’s Guest Lecturer for the Securitization Seminar of 2016
  • Guest Teacher at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in 2011 for the class on “Banking Contracts”
  • Assistant Teacher in the Corporate Law and Capital Markets course coordinated by lawyers Marcelo Trindade (former chairman of the Brazilian Securities Commission) and Luiz Antonio Sampaio Campos (former director of the Brazilian Securities Commission). From May, 2004, to June, 2005
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