Demarest adds banking and finance partner
Brazilian law firm Demarest has announced the hiring of Helen Naves as a partner, joining its banking and financial law practice.
For more than 20 years, Naves (pictured) has worked in the financial market in prominent institutions, including Safra and Santander. She joins Demarest from Trench Rossi e Watanabe Advogados.
A graduate of Law from the University of São Paulo, she specialised in capital markets Law and earned a master’s degree in commercial law from the same university. She also holds an LLM in banking, corporate and financial law from the Fordham University School of Law in New York.
An experienced manager of interdisciplinary teams, Naves has a strong track record of representing Brazilian issuers and intermediary institutions in various issuances and public offers of debentures, promissory notes, agribusiness receivables certificates and certificates of real estate receivables.
“Naves, with her experience, is a strategic acquisition for foreign investments in Brazil, supporting the structuring of projects in the banking and financial areas, as well as an important leadership in the new economy,” Paulo Coelho da Rocha, managing partner at Demarest, said.
Throughout her career, Helen has represented banks as financiers, and has also advised several foreign investors, including financial institutions, providing analysis and counsel for making investments in Brazil. She also has vast experience in drafting various commercial, operational and partnership agreements for provision of services of payment institutions and related financial services.
“I bring to Demarest my experience working in other firms and in the financial market itself to further strengthen an area that already has excellent professionals”, Naves said.
“Our combined forces will allow us to deliver services of the highest level to our clients, in line with current economic challenges,” she added.
