Pinheiro Neto promotes five to partner
Pinheiro Neto has announced five promotions for January 1st
Pinheiro Neto will make effective the promotions of five new partner on January 1st. Carlos Eduardo G. Azevedo (pictured first on the left), Raphael Moraes Paciello (pictured second from the left), Paula Amaral Mello (pictured centre), Mariana Monte Alegre de Paiva (pictured second from the right) and Thiago Braga Junqueira (pictured first on the right) have been elected to the firm’s partnership effective January 1st, 2021. Across their career trajectories of over ten years in the firm, the selected partners have built a remarkable history of achievements that will be instrumental in strengthening our insurance and reinsurance, oil and gas, environmental, social security, and corporate restructuring and insolvency practices.
Carlos Eduardo G. Azevedo will join the Insurance and Reinsurance and the Corporate, M&A areas, with an emphasis on M&A deals, contracts and structuring of insurance distribution platforms, being responsible for coordinating the firm’s acceleration program for insurtechs. He is a member of the firm’s corporate practice area since 2001, Carlos has a master’s degree in Law from the University of Chicago.
Raphael Moraes Paciello will be the new partner of the Oil and Gas and Corporate, M&A departments. He practices in the regulatory oil and gas and biofuels areas, as well as in M&A deals, notably those involving assets in those areas. With over 17 years of experience, he counsels oil and gas operators and concessionaires, their service providers, and biofuels producers on a wide range of regulatory matters. He has a master’s degree in Energy and Natural Resources contracts from the Queen Mary University of London, and a post-graduate degree in Corporate Law and Capital Markets from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation.
Paula Amaral Mello will join the Environmental and Climate Change and Sustainability area. She has over 15 years’ experience in environmental practice. She advises and counsels national and international companies in different market segments on a wide range of environmental matters in administrative and judicial proceedings. She has a master’s degree in Diffuse and Collective Rights from the São Paulo Catholic University (PUC-SP) and authored the book entitled Direito ao Meio Ambiente e Proibição do Retrocesso (Atlas, 2014).
Mariana Monte Alegre de Paiva will be the new partner of the Social Security department. She practices in the Tax area, with a focus on advisory and on administrative and court litigation. She devotes special attention to payroll taxation and has extensive experience and expertise in tax and social security due diligence matters. She has practised on private pension matters, advising pension entities and sponsors of benefit plans. She has a master’s degree in Tax Law from FGV Direito.
Thiago Braga Junqueira will join the Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency area. He has practised in the corporate restructuring and insolvency area for 12 years. He has extensive experience in representing debtors, equity partners and shareholders, creditors and investors in the judicial reorganization, extrajudicial reorganization and insolvency proceedings. He has played an active role in several high-stakes cases involving the restructuring of debtors in the construction, telecom, media, oil and gas, agribusiness and energy segments. He has a bachelor degree in Law from the São Paulo Catholic University (PUC-SP) and a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
