Leonardo Guimar�es, Esq.
Noted multilingual Brazil-based international business attorney skilled in corporate law, M&A, bankruptcy, international contracts and judicial recovery. Founding partner, Guimarães & Vieira de Mello in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with legal network across Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and the U.S.
Professor of business law, University of Minas Gerais Law School, and of private law in their school of economics. Author,Requisitos Necessários ao Processamento da Recuperação Judicial (Necessary Requirements to Proceedings of the Judicial Recovery Action); coauthor, Direito de Empresa no Novo Código Civil (Corporate Law in the New Civil Code). Has also written and lectured extensively on other corporate-law issues.
Portuguese, Italian, English and Spanish speaker. Educated at Minas Gerais Law School, with advanced training from Harvard and Oxford universities.
PRACTICE AREAS
- Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights, Asset Collections and Liquidation Proceedings
- Contracts & Agreements
- International Corporate Bankruptcy, Creditors’ Rights, Asset Collections and Liquidation Proceedings
- International Intellectual Property Law, Trademarks and Copyrights
- International Litigation and Arbitration
- International Real Estate: Commercial and Residential
Practicing: Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Bankruptcy, International Contracts, Judicial Recovery
