Partner in Demarest’s Listed Companies, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate practice areas, Luiz Felipe Eustaquio holds a masters’ degree in Law (LLM) from Columbia Law School (USA) and a bachelor’s degree in Law from PUC-PR. Luiz concentrates his practice in advising intermediary institutions and issuers in IPOs, follow-on offerings and debt offerings (debentures, commercial notes, bonds and securitization of receivables), in Brazil and abroad, as well as clients in mergers and acquisitions involving listed and private companies. In addition, Luiz is widely experienced in day-to-day corporate and capital markets matters, including attendance in general meetings and drafting of documents pertinent to meetings, regular and occasional information updates, drafting of administrative defenses and responses to to letters from CVM, B3 and ANBIMA.

  • Advised Raízen S.A., as foreign associate, on its IPO valued at approximately BRL 6.9 billion.
  • Advised, as foreign associate, the coordinating banks on the Re-IPO of DASA S.A., valued at approximately BRL 3.8 billion.
  • Advised Lojas Quero-Quero S.A. on its IPO valued at approximately BRL 2.5 billion.
  • Advised Afya Limited on its IPO on NASDAQ valued at approximately USD 261 million.
  • Advised Odebrecht Transportes on the sale of SuperVia Trens Urbanos to Mitsui for approximately BRL 850 million.
  • Master’s degree in Law (LLM) from Columbia Law School, New York, USA (2022)
  • Bachelor of Laws from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUC-PR), Paraná, Brazil (2012)
  • Co-author of the chapter “Civil Liability in the Capital Market: An analysis of the duty of diligence of intermediary institutions in public securities offerings” [“Responsabilidade Civil no Mercado de Capitais: Uma Análise do Dever de Diligência das Instituições Intermediárias nas Ofertas Públicas de Valores Mobiliários”], Revista de Direito Bancário e Mercado de Capitais No. 90 (October-December 2020), Co-author of the article “PIPE made in Brazil” available at https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/pipe-made-in-brazil/ (2020).
  • Co-author of the article “Green Bonds: The missing pulse” [“Green Bonds: O impulso que faltava”] available at https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/green-bonds-o-impulso-que-faltava/ (2020).
  • Co-author of the article “Temporary Poison Pills as Preventive Measures in COVID-19 Times” [“As poison pills temporárias como medidas preventivas em tempos de COVID-19”] available at https://www.migalhas.com.br/depeso/325775/as-poison-pills-temporarias-como-medidas-preventivas-em-tempos-de-covid-19 (2020).
  • Co-author of the chapter “A perspective on Private Investment in Public Equity (PIPE) operations and similar operations in Brazil” [“Uma perspectiva sobre operações de PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity) e operações similares no Brasil”], “Novos Temas de Direito de Corporate Finance” (2019).
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