Padis Mattar Advogados

Firm Details:
Managing Partners: Paulo Padis and Eduardo Mattar
Senior Partners: 7
Number of other lawyers: 15

Firm Overview:
Padis Mattar Advogados is a boutique law firm focused on high-complexity transactional and litigious matters, providing independent legal advice with significant strategic value. The firm aims at being a go-to firm for the most sophisticated international and national clients.

Padis Mattar specialises in complex transactions with notable experience in restructurings, insolvency proceedings, distressed assets, special situations, structured finance, capital markets and M&A.

Padis Mattar also boasts a highly skilled dispute resolution team, which has a history of delivering rapid and effective results in the most complex and high stakes litigation and arbitration cases in Brazil and abroad.

Padis Mattar is always focused on agile and efficient solutions and on creative, innovative and multidisciplinary strategies to solve clients’ issues. This approach has led Padis Mattar to be at the forefront of the most prominent restructuring cases, with a solid market share of the most innovative transactional deals in the Brazilian distress market.

Main Areas of Practice:
Arbitration:
Padis Mattar has solid experience representing high-profile clients in complex disputes in a multitude of industries and sectors, with notable expertise in matters related to corporate, contracts, banking, capital markets, and energy.

Padis Mattar advises on pre-litigious matters and on negotiations of complex settlements. It has extensive experience in representing clients in arbitration proceedings seated in Brazil and abroad, administered pursuant to the rules of the most prestigious institutions in the world and in ad hoc arbitration proceedings.

Corporate & M&A:
Padis Mattar advises domestic and foreign clients on structuring and implementing the most sophisticated corporate transactions, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, private equity, asset divestment, distressed assets and special situations, tender offerings for stock purchases, call and put options, capital investments and all other types of corporate agreements.

Financial & Capital Markets:
Padis Mattar provides advisory services to issuers, investors, underwriters, hedge funds and financial institutions in all phases involving public and private offerings of securities, debt issuances (debentures, promissory notes, units, depositary receipts, leveraged buyouts, commercial papers, notes, bonds) and securitisations of assets and receivables, whether in the domestic or international market, including interfacing with governmental and regulatory authorities.

Litigation:
Padis Mattar assists clients in the resolution of complex disputes, acting in the pre-litigation stage and before judicial courts and in administrative proceedings. Focused on strategic disputes, Padis Mattar always aims at a work of excellence, aligning agility to technical knowledge. Its litigation team has experience with the most diverse areas of law, with emphasis on commercial law, corporate, banking, capital markets, financial markets, finance litigation and regulatory matters.

Project Development & Project Finance:
Padis Mattar advises clients on development of the most assorted types of infrastructure projects, including projects in the ports, mining, energy and renewable energy sectors, from structuring the transaction to financing the projects. Padis Mattar also advises on the negotiation and preparation of the underlying agreements necessary for implementing and operating the project, including engineering, procurement and construction agreements, operation and maintenance agreements, offtake and supply agreements. Padis Mattar's professionals have broad experience representing owners, buyers, EPC/EPCM contractors, draftsmen, operators, lenders, consultants and advisors in general.

Restructuring & Insolvency:
Padis Mattar specialised and dedicated team has actively worked in the most important and complex domestic and cross-border restructurings carried out in Brazil since enactment of the Brazilian Bankruptcy Act and accumulates vast experience in litigious insolvency proceedings and in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of creative and efficient out-of-court solutions for its clients, whether they are creditors (individual or ad hoc committees), investors or debtors in credit recovery, debt restructuring and asset acquisition or sale transactions. Padis Mattar has also acted in the structuring and negotiation of the most important debtor-in-possession financing granted since the enactment of the Brazilian Bankruptcy Act, and in the successful enforcement of fiduciary liens and other types of collateral granted as security under Brazilian law.

Padis Mattar’s restructuring and insolvency team is composed of professionals with a deep understanding of the Brazilian Bankruptcy Act coupled with an extensive experience in highly complex litigation. The team is experienced in corporate law and M&A and finance, which provides important tools for the defense of the interests of its clients, who may rely on the sophistication of the team to seek the most efficient transactional structures while also being prepared to switch to more litigious strategies to preserve its rights.

Office
São Paulo
Email: [email protected]
Tel.: +55 11 31856800