Pablo Arana

Pablo Arana

Partner

Main Areas of Practice

SEGMENTS

  • Banks and Financial Services
  • Infrastructure
  • Startups and Fintechs
  • Technology

Know-how

With nearly 20 years of experience as a transactional attorney, Pablo has cultivated a distinguished career advising prominent corporations, emerging companies, startups, financial institutions, and investment funds on sophisticated and strategic corporate transactions, spanning both domestic and cross-border markets. His practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions (M&A), private equity, joint ventures, foreign investments, special situations, capital markets (equity and debt), corporate restructurings, and wealth planning, with a pronounced emphasis on cross-border transactions.

He possesses expertise across a diverse array of sectors and industries, including both regulated and unregulated areas, with particular proficiency in infrastructure, oil & gas, energy, mining, and technology. Pablo has provided counsel on transactions involving airports, ports, power generation assets, and software development, among others.

Pablo has extensive international experience underscored by a distinguished career at leading global law firms. As a U.S.-licensed attorney, he practiced at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in São Paulo and at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in New York – two of the world’s most preeminent law firms. In Brazil, he served as a senior associate at Lefosse Advogados and other prestigious law firms in São Paulo. In these roles, he coordinated and executed high-stakes transactions throughout Brazil, Latin America, and the United States, including M&As, public and private offerings (IPOs, follow-ons, notes, bonds, SPACs, and de-SPACs), structured deals, and project finance operations.

Pablo is admitted to practice law in both the State of New York (New York Bar) and Brazil (OAB).

  • Law degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
  • Postgraduate degree (specialization) in Corporate Law from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
  • LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
  • Executive business program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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