João Pedro Coutinho Valle

João Pedro Valle is an associate in the Corporate & M&A practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Rio de Janeiro office. João Pedro has experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganization operations involving domestic and foreign companies from several markets, such as oil and gas, agribusiness, energy, logistics, insurance and reinsurance. His practice also includes analysis and elaboration of corporate acts and commercial contracts, continuous advice to companies and investment funds on corporate matters, besides the coordination and participation in due diligence.

In addition, João Pedro is a member of the African Desk of Mayer Brown, together with Gonçalo Falcão and Paulo Rage, specialized in advising local and international clients in operations in the most diverse jurisdictions in Africa, mainly in Lusophone and Francophone countries, in acquisition operations and corporate, regulatory and banking reorganization, especially in the oil and gas, mining, financing and insurance sectors.

João Pedro was an intern at Tauil & Chequer Advogados, from January 2019 to June 2020. Previously, from November 2017 to November 2018, he was an intern in the Federal Administrative Tax Litigation practice of Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados. In addition, João Pedro was an intern in the Corporate and Due Diligence from April 2016 to December 2016, of a renowned law firm.

• Assistance to Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) in the acquisition of 90% of the shares issued by Transportadora Associada de Gás S.A. - TAG from Petrobras, also later in the acquisition of the remaining 10% of TAG's shares, by CDPQ.
• Participation in advising Grupo Energisa on the acquisition of 100% of the shares issued by Gemini Energy S.A.
• Participation in advising the Nestlé Group on the acquisition of 100% of the capital of Grupo Puravida's companies.
• Assistance on the sale of Chevron Upstream Frade Ltda. to PetroRio.
• Conducting an extensive due diligence for the evaluation of a refinery owned by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras.
• Conducted an extensive due diligence for the evaluation of a state-owned energy transmitter during its privatization procedure, including further assistance to the auction preparation.
• Assistance in matters of corporate law and commercial contracts to several domestic and foreign companies and investment funds.
• Assistance in the incorporation of subsidiaries in Brazil of several foreign companies.
• Drafting of corporate acts, shareholder agreements and commercial contracts.

• Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais (IBMEC/RJ), Bachelor of Law

• 巴西

• 英语
• 葡萄牙语
• 西班牙语

• Researcher at IBMEC's Economic Law Research Group, 2018.