Luís Otávio Fernandez Pinto is a Corporate & Securities associate in the São Paulo office of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown. He is also a member of the M&A, Capital Markets and Securitization practices.
Luís Otávio has worked for the past six years with mergers, acquisitions and capital markets, gaining knowledge and experience with M&A (buy and sell side) and joint venture transactions, as well as with public offerings, day-to-day of publicly-held companies and Brazilian Securities Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM) regulation.
Luís Otávio focuses on M&A and capital markets transactions related to companies and investment funds with activities in the infrastructure, education and retail sectors, including: the international bidding process to sell a significant shareholding in a leading airline conglomerate in Latin America; a R$4.3 billion joint venture transaction to share the control of one of the largest toll road players in Brazil; and the acquisition of a minority equity stake in three major universities in Brazil.