Bio

Fernando Prado Ferreira is a partner of the corporate area of the firm and has practised in the São Paulo office for over 30 years. He advises international clients with foreign investments in Brazil, corporate law, M&A, and banking and finance transactions. He holds an LLB degree from the São Paulo Catholic University, a master’s degree from the University of São Paulo and an LLM degree from the University of Michigan, US. He worked as a foreign associate at Sullivan and Cromwell, New York between 1989 and 1990. He acted as chairman of the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (São Paulo) between 1997 and 2005 and since 2006 acts as its legal counsel. He recently received the Leading Lawyer – First Tier award of the Legal500 Latin America (2015).