Guilherme Fontes Bechara
Alternative Investments Dispute Resolution Restructuring and Insolvency
+55 11 3356 1763 gfontes@demarest.com.br São Paulo
Partner of Demarest’s Dispute Resolution, Restructuring and Bankruptcy and Alternative Investments areas, Guilherme Fontes Bechara has a Master’s Degree (LLM) in Corporate Governance and Practice by Stanford Law School, Stanford University (USA) and Civil Law by Pontifical Catholic University – PUC-SP. He is specialized in Civil Litigation, Arbitration and Restructuring, acting more specifically in judicial reorganization and bankruptcy proceedings. Among his main clients are investment funds, financial institutions companies from various sectors and national and international financial institutions, focusing on the recovery of credits, judicially or extrajudicially, investments in credits or investment in companies in crisis.
- Advised Mercon Coffee on the Chapter 11 process of the Mercon Group in Brazil. This is one of the first foreign insolvency proceedings filed in Brazil.
- Advised the Verzatec Group on the out-of-court reorganization of Unigel Group within the context of the acquisition of a significant asset owned by the Debtors located in Mexico.
- Advised TAM Linhas Aéreas and LATAM Airlines Group, as Special Brazilian Counsel for Chapter 11 filed by the LATAM group in New York.
- Advised Czarnikow on financing Clealco Açúcar e Álcool, as investors for the issuance of debentures convertible into shares to be issued by Clealco, in the amount of approximately BRL 261 million ("DIP Finance").
- Advised Caixa Econômica Federal (the Brazilian Federal Savings Bank) on the debt restructuring of Arena Itaquera and SPV, which controls Arena Itaquera, the stadium built for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
- Advised American Towers on the acquisition of shares of UPI Torres from Oi S.A., with payment in credits held by the American Towers group in Oi's court-supervised reorganization.
- Master’s Degree (LL.M) in Corporate Governance and Practice, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, USA (2014)
- Master’s Degree in Civil Law by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), São Paulo, Brazil (2014)
- Bachelor of Law by Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil (2008)
- Regional Vice Chair (Latin America / Caribbean) of the Lex Mundi’s Insolvency, Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group
- Member of TMA – Turnaround Management Association
- Member of INSOL – International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals
- Portuguese and English
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