Lefosse e Stocche Forbes advises public offering of Equatorial Energia
Lefosse Advogados advised the underwriters; Stocche Forbes Advogados advised the company
Lefosse Advogados acted as Brazilian special counsel to Citigroup Global Markets Brasil, Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários S.A., Banco de Investimentos Credit Suisse (Brasil) S.A., UBS Brasil Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários S.A., XP Investimentos Corretora de Câmbio, Títulos e Valores Mobiliários S.A. and Goldman Sachs do Brasil Banco Múltiplo S.A. in the primary public offering of 118,395,000 common shares issued by Equatorial Energia S.A., which was advised by Stocche Forbes Advogados.
The offer with restricted placement efforts in Brazil in accordance with CVM 476. The total amounting was R$ 2,782,282,500.00.
Lefosse acted as Brazilian special counsel to the underwriters and relied on partner Ricardo Prado (pictured top), counsel Luciana Moutinho, associates Carolina Garrote and Luisa Nordskog and legal assistant July Araújo.
Stocche Forbes Advogados was Brazilian counsel to the company and relied on partners Henrique Filizzola (pictured bottom left), Frederico Moura (pictured bottom center) and Alessandra Zequi (pictured bottom right); associates Victor Manso Roman, Deborah Toledo Florencio, Diego Vieira, Victor Baptistin, Gabriel Ramalho Medeiros and Pedro Miranda.
White & Case LLP was foreign special counsel to the company and had John Guzman, Abraham Paul, Monaliza da Silva and Camilo Vasquez.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP was foreign special counsel to the underwriters with Juan G. Giráldez, Jonathan Mendes de Oliveira, David Schechtman, Rosane Carmona, Gabriel Pires and Tamiris Guimarães.
