Lefosse, Machado Meyer and other firms act in the deal between FiBrasil and Blackstone
Lefosse Advogados advised FiBrasil, Machado Meyer Advogados advised Blackstone Group
Lefosse Advogados acted as counsel to FiBrasil Infraestrutura e Fibra Ótica S.A., a company jointly owned by Telefônica Brasil S.A. (Vivo), Telefónica Infra, S.L.U. (TEF Infra) and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), in the acquisition of 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of Fiberty1 S.A., a Blackstone portfolio company, represented by Machado Meyer Advogados.
The acquisition comes just one month after FiBrasil began operations and increases FiBrasil’s fiber-to-the-home passages by approximately 480,000 pass-homes, which are distributed in Minas Gerais, Goiás, Espírito Santo and Rio Grande do Sul, across 29 cities.
The cross-border transactions involved parties in four different jurisdictions (Brazil, Canada, the United States of America, and Spain) and complex negotiations of indemnity and warranty clauses.
Lefosse Advogados advised FiBrasil Infraestrutura e Fibra Ótica S.A., with a team formed by partners Mirella Mie Abe (pictured left), Ricardo Bolan, Eduardo Carvalhaes, Ludmila Groch, Andrea Caliento and Diego Ciuffo Carneiro. Associates Fabiana Ukei, Rodrigo Cunha, Jorge Kou, Emmanuel Abrantes, Bruno Auada, Karen Coutinho, Paloma Romero, Marcela Brasileiro, Mariana Rodrigues, Douglas Fukuhara, Lucas Queiroz, Gabriel Prétola, Camila Cardim, Lucas Baptista, Sofia Chiriboga, Marina Roque, Bárbara Reis, Vinicius Salvino, José Maximo.
Mayer Brown LLP advised the same party.
Machado Meyer Advogados acted as legal advisor to the Blackstone Group and relied on partner Arthur Bardawil Penteado (pictured centre), Mariana Meditsch (pictured right) and lawyers Eduardo Boldrin Camara, Helena Prescinotti Cursino de Andrade, Laura Ducati Dabronzo.
Akin Gump also advised the same party.
