Mattos Filho and Pinheiro Neto advise on xFarm deal

Mattos Filho advised xFarm Technologies, a Swiss-Italian agritech company, on its acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Sibium Analytics Tecnologia e Ciência de Dados Participações, a Brazilian data and technology group. Pinheiro Neto Advogados represented the sellers, Guilherme Canto Dumit and Ronaldo Marani, in the deal. The transaction value was not disclosed.

The transaction involved the acquisition by xFarm Technologies of all equity interests in Sibium Analytics and, indirectly, its wholly owned subsidiaries Sigma Geotecnologias Digitais, Ambium Sustentabilidade Digital and Data View Conecta. Sigma Digital specializes in geospatial intelligence solutions for agribusiness, with a focus on the sugar and ethanol industry, while Ambium focuses on sustainability management and socio-environmental assessments and DATAView specializes in data integration, analysis and visualization through business intelligence platforms. The deal is said to strengthen xFarm Technologies’ expansion strategy in the Latin American market and broaden its portfolio of technology solutions for the agribusiness industry.

Mattos Filho advised the buyer with a team led by partners Tomás Neiva, Tomás Machado Oliveira and Érika de Siqueira Seddon (pictured top from left to right), together with associates Luca Codazzi Corrêa de Mendonça, Daniel Fermann, Victor Sette Manetti Andrade and Thatiane Campello.

Pinheiro Neto Advogados fielded a team led by partners Thiago da Silva José (pictured bottom left) and Carlos Eduardo Azevedo (pictured bottom right), together with associates João Pedro Silveira De Mello, Mariana Cajano Gomes da Costa, Ádila Sales dos Santos and Felix Chiaradia Maule. The sellers also received co-counsel assistance from Alessandro Desiderio, partner.