Vella, Pugliese, Buosi e Guidoni Advogados, in association with Dentons, is pleased to announce the arrival of Gabriella Maranesi Najjar as a partner of the Corporate, M&A and Securities practice group, in São Paulo.

“We are very pleased to welcome Gabriella to our partnership. Her arrival is a very good example of the expansion, diversification and globalization phase that our firm is going through.” Rodrigo V. Vella

Gabriella has more than 15 years of experience in complex M&A, private equity and capital markets transactions, acting in all kinds of investments, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. She assists clients in numerous corporate and governance matters, with special focus in publicly held entities, and also has significant expertise with bonds and loans, project finance and development and debt issuances.

With particular experience in the infrastructure sector, Gabriella led the creation of a joint venture that formed the largest Brazilian private player in the electrical energy sector; a transaction to share the control of one of the largest toll road players in Brazil; and the international bidding process to sell a significant stakeholding in a leading airline conglomerate in Latin America.

"I am truly honored to join the partnership of such a renowned firm, and add value to its solid and well regarded corporate team” says Gabriella. “My arrival reflects the firm’s growing cycle, aligned to its commitment to always render top-notch and highly specialized services. In addition, the firm’s unique global platform will let me continue to offer global reach solutions to clients, now with resources in 173 offices around 77 countries”.