Bio

Jose Carlos Junqueira Sampaio Meirelles joined the Pinheiro Neto Advogados’ team in 1984 and became a partner of the firm in 1996. He focuses his practice on the corporate area, especially in M&A; corporate law; private equity; capital markets; project finance; structured finance; investment funds; banking law; public private partnerships; and securitization of receivables. He has an LL.B. degree from the University of São Paulo Law School (1986) and an LL.M. degree from the University of Illinois College of Law, Champaign, IL (1989), where he also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2008 and has been an Adjunct Professor since 2005. Currently, he is also a Guest Faculty Member of Duke University School of Law. Mr. Meirelles worked as a foreign associate at the Chicago office of McDermott, Will & Emery in 1989. He has written several articles in national and international books and magazines, as well as lectured in a number of seminars and workshops related to his areas of practice. Since 2012, at the invitation of the African Development Bank (ADB), he has participated in several projects throughout the African continent (Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and South Africa), lecturing about public private partnerships and giving legal support to the government of these countries on infrastructure contracts. Mr. Meirelles is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) – Section of International Law and a former Vice Chair of the International Securities and Capital Markets Committee. He is also recommended by publications Chambers and Partners and Latin Lawyer in the Corporate, Banking & Finance practices. He is fluent in Portuguese and English.