Maria Beatriz Grella Vieira
Corporate Energy and Natural Resources Mergers and Acquisitions
+55 11 3356 1223 bgrella@demarest.com.br São Paulo
Partner in Demarest's Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate practice areas, Maria Beatriz Grella Vieira holds a specialist degree in Business from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and a bachelor's degree in Law from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. She concentrates her practice on M&A transactions, corporate, capital market, and contractual matters, as well as on structuring energy self-production and distributed energy generation projects. Maria Beatriz also advises on corporate reorganizations, corporate governance, estate planning and financial transactions. Her clients include Brazilian and international companies (public and private) from different sectors of the economy - predominantly in the energy sector - shareholders and administrators. She has been recognized for her Corporate/M&A and Energy practices by leading legal publications such as The Legal 500, Leaders League and Chambers and Partners.
- Advised a large multinational company in the renewable energy sector on its Brazilian expansion through the acquisition of solar power plants.
- Advised an investment fund on selling energy transmission assets in a transaction involving capital markets.
- Advised a major multinational player in the energy sector on structuring two energy self-production projects.
- Advised a major player in the energy sector on selling energy transmission assets to a foreign fund.
- Advised a shareholder on selling stake in a major energy trading company.
- Specialization in Business from Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil (2012)
- Bachelor of Laws from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, Brazil (2007)
- Member of the Institute of Applied Corporate Law (IDSA)
- Author of the chapter “Considerations on Conviction for Insider Trading” [“Considerações sobre Condenação pela Prática de Insider Trading”], in the book “Current Issues in Corporate Law and Capital Markets - Volume V” [“Atualidades em Direito Societário e Mercado de Capitais – Volume V”], special edition, Lumen Juris Editora, 2021.
- Author of the chapter “The Importance of Defining ‘Company’ for Case Law: Reflections on TJSP and STJ Rulings” [“A Utilidade da Definição de ‘Empresa’ para a Jurisprudência: Reflexões sobre Julgados do TJSP e do STJ”], in the book "Economic Foundations of Corporate Law” [“Fundamentos Econômicos do Direito de Empresa”], Juruá Editora, 1st Edition, 2019.
- Author of the article “Reflections on Objective Arbitrability and the Vote of the Federal Government as the Controlling Shareholder of a Mixed Private-Public Ownership Company” [“Reflexões sobre Arbitrabilidade Objetiva e o Voto da Administração Pública na qualidade de Controladora de Sociedade de Economia Mista”], published by the Brazilian Arbitration Journal, 2019.
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