Bio

Amauri Costa is a dual-qualified (Brazil/District of Columbia) attorney focused on cross-border corporate and commercial transactions, ranging from complex mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures to structured finance and trade finance matters. His transactional practice focuses on representing US- and Europe-based companies doing business in Latin America, and foreign companies doing business in the United States. Mr. Costa advises clients in the energy, telecommunications, information technology and financial services industries and assists extensively with interpreting the legal and regulatory environments in Latin America. In his finance work, Mr. Costa represents both lenders and borrowers in project and trade finance transactions involving security interests in foreign jurisdictions. Many of these finance transactions are enhanced by support from private insurers, the U.S. Export-Import Bank, other export credit agencies or multilateral lending institutions. For nearly a decade, Mr. Costa represented a key U.S. agency in project finance transactions for small-and-medium sized enterprises in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Mr. Costa earned his LL.M. from Queen Mary and Westfield College in London in 1995, his graduate specialization in Brazilian corporate and commercial law from University Mackenzie in Brazil in 1991 and his law degree from the Law School of the University of São Paulo in 1990. Mr. Costa is a Brazilian national with native Portuguese skills; he is also fluent in Spanish and English.