Matheus Cotrim has joined KLA as a Project Finance partner, bringing over ten years of experience in structured finance, capital markets, and debt restructuring. The Project Finance practice will focus on advising on project finance transactions, working in synergy with other areas of the firm such as Capital Markets, Insolvency and Reorganization, Infrastructure, and Banking and Finance.
According to Henrique Lopes, founding partner of KLA and member of the firm’s Executive Committee, the arrival of Matheus Cotrim reinforces the breadth and depth of the firm’s practice in projects and financing, in line with its full service strategy.
“Matheus’s experience in structured finance operations and complex international transactions will contribute to strengthening KLA’s practice in a year of expansion and consolidation on all fronts of Corporate Law.”
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The new partner has experience advising development banks, international financial institutions, and commercial banks, including on negotiating financing agreements, guarantee packages, and other financial instruments, in both local and cross-border transactions. He also works on structuring and implementing financial products and credit transactions involving bank credit certificates (CCBs), credit assignments, and guarantees.
Matheus Cotrim holds an LL.M. in Banking and Finance from Queen Mary University of London. During his international career, he worked at the international law firms Reed Smith in London and Bedell Cristin in Guernsey. He is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) and is authorized to practice as a Solicitor in England.
