Fernando Gava Verzoni

Practice Areas

Commercial Contracts

Corporate & Mergers and Acquisitions

Career

Mr. Verzoni is the office managing partner for the Firm’s Porto Alegre office and a corporate and transactional lawyer focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions and commercial contracts. He has broad experience in structuring and negotiating acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures for clients across a variety of commercial and industrial sectors. Clients often rely on Mr. Verzoni’s varied Brazilian legal experience, his skills, and international exposure to efficiently structure and complete complex deals or transactions.

Mr. Verzoni also has a significant commercial contracts practice, both domestic and cross-border, involving preparation and negotiation of agreements for, among others, the supply of equipment for construction in infrastructure projects and industrial facilities, export/import of commodities and other goods, establishment of consortia, project finance and other financing transactions involving local and foreign financial institutions. He regularly advises companies across a broad range of industries including renewable energy sources, agribusiness, manufacturing and services.

Professional Memberships

- Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) – Rio Grande do Sul, Arbitration Commission

- International Bar Association (IBA) – Corporate and M&A Law and International Sales Committees

- American Bar Association (ABA) – Corportate Law Section and M&A Committee