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Partner Paulo Fernando de Menezes Cardoso is a part of the Firm’s Latin America practice, based in São Paulo. He focuses his practice on global transactions of all kinds, including high yield bond and investment grade offerings, credit facilities, complex (and often cross-border) acquisitions and dispositions, and growth equity transactions, as well as SEC-registered and locally registered initial public offerings and follow-on offerings, most often with a focus on Brazil. Paulo represents corporate entities, investment banks and private equity sponsors alike on domestic and international matters across a unique mix of industries including fintech, e-commerce, software, infrastructure (including digital infrastructure), communications and telecoms, as well as more traditional sectors, such as energy, logistics, petrochemicals, oil & gas and minerals.
Paulo’s experience includes advising:
Debt Capital Markets and Credit Financing
- Initial purchasers in US$600 million (aggregate) unsecured notes offering by the FS Group, as well as in liability management transactions
- Raízen, one of the leading integrated energy companies in the world, in the issuance and sale of over US$4 billion (aggregate) in notes offerings, including green notes, as well as in liability management transactions
- Lenders in a US$350 million export prepayment secured term loan facility for LD Celulose S.A. and initial purchasers in parallel US$650 million inaugural green secured notes offering
- Initial purchasers in a US$375 million senior secured notes offering by the Oceânica Engenharia e Consultoria Group
- Unigel Participações S.A. in a number of secured and unsecured bond offerings and liability management transactions
- BRF S.A. in a number of bond offerings and liability management transactions
- Initial purchasers in a US$600 million senior secured notes offering by PetroRio
- Lenders in 3R Lux’s US$500 million senior secured loan facility to fund its acquisition of the Potiguar Cluster
- Initial purchasers in senior secured and unsecured notes offerings by Gol Linhas Aéreas
- Initial purchasers in senior secured and unsecured notes offerings by Grupo Virgolino de Oliveira S.A.
- Petrobras S.A. in a number of SEC-registered notes offerings
- A Brazilian forestry processing (pulp and paper) company in the acquisition of assets in the United States
- Sinqia in its business combination with Evertec
- Brandlovrs Inc. in an equity investment round
- Fluency Academy in its Series A funding round
- Crescera in its R$300 million PIPE in Nasdaq listed-company, Vitru Limited, the largest private digital education institute in Brazil
- Netshoes Limited in its merger with a subsidiary of Magazine Luiza S.A
- Vinci Partners in the divestment of equity interest at Los Grobo
- VTEX in its SEC-registered US$415.2 million NYSE IPO
- BRF on its SEC-registered global follow-on offering and in a R$5.4 billion private placement of common shares
- Zenvia in its SEC-registered US$150 million NASDAQ IPO and concurrent US$50 million private placement, as well as in the establishment of its new SEC-registered “at-the-market” equity program for its Class A common shares for an aggregate sales price of up to $20 million
- Netshoes in its SEC-registered US$148.5 million NYSE IPO
- Underwriters in the SEC-registered IPOs of Vasta Platform Limited and Linx S.A.
- Underwriters in the SEC-registered follow-on of CPFL Energia S.A.
- Via Varejo, Multilaser, Brisanet, Dotz, Aura Minerals, C&A Brazil, Neogrid, Viveo, Sinqia, in their IPOs on the B3
- Placement agents in 3R Petroleum Óleo e Gás’s R$600 million IPO and follow-on equity offerings on the B3
- Placement agents in follow-on equity offerings on the B3 by Magazine Luiza, Cogna Educação, PetroRio, Lojas Marisa, Grupo Casas Bahia, 3R Petroleum Óleo e Gás, and Totvs
Paulo is recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” in capital markets by The Legal 500 Latin America (2025), as well as an “Up-and-Coming Partner” in both M&A and capital markets by Chambers Brazil (2023 – 2024), and a “Rising Star” in debt capital markets by International Financial Law Review (2022).
Paulo received his LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School in 2011, his Business Management B.A. from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2010 and his LL.B. from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro in 2006. He is admitted to practice in New York and speaks fluent English and Portuguese.
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