Juliana Maluf
Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity and Venture Capital Corporate
+55 11 3356 1826 jmaluf@demarest.com.br São Paulo
Partner in Demarest's Mergers and Acquisitions practice area, Juliana Maluf holds a master's degree in Law from Columbia University, a postgraduate degree in Business Law from FGV and a bachelor's degree in Law from PUC-SP. She concentrates her practice in M&A transactions, corporate restructurings, private equity and venture capital investments, representing Brazilian and international clients. Juliana has a vast international experience, as she served as a foreign associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, in New York, in the M&A practice area, working on M&A and private equity transactions. Juliana is recommended by the major legal publications Chambers Brazil, The Legal 500 and Latin Lawyer 250.
- Advised Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan on the acquisition of Evoltz, a leading power transmission platform in Brazil, which manages and operates seven transmission lines totaling approximately 3,500km.
- Advised Hospital e Maternidade São Marcos and its shareholders on the sale of 100% of the hospital's shares to Athena Saúde, owned by the Pátria group.
- Advised the private equity fund EB Capital on its investment in Hilab, a pioneer healtech in the healthcare sector with a remote laboratory testing business model. The investment was carried out directly into the group's Cayman entity.
- Advised the shareholders of Car10 Tecnologia e Informação S.A. on the investment by WebMotors S.A. (of the Santander group) in Car10, through the purchase and sale of shares from certain shareholders and direct investment. WebMotors now owns 67% of Car10.
- LL.M. in Law from Columbia University, New York, United States (2014)
- Postgraduate degree in Business Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas Law School (GV-Law), São Paulo, Brazil
- Bachelor of Laws from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), São Paulo, Brazil (2010)
- Co-author of a chapter in Chambers Brazil Private Equity 2023 Trends & Developments / Law & Practice, 2023.
- Co-author of the article “CVC: Breaking the Ice of VC Winter in Latin America", in The Legal Industries Review, Vol. 3 No. 2. (2024).
- Author of the article "The positive impact of the pandemic for technology companies” ["O impacto positivo da pandemia para empresas de tecnologia"], MIT Sloan Management Review Brazil, 2020.
- Portuguese and English
