Caio Junqueira de Brito

Primary Focus & Experience

Caio’s practice focuses on providing New York law advice to Brazilian and US companies and financial institutions in a variety of cross-border transactions, including capital markets, financing and corporate. He has experience across a broad range of industries, including infrastructure, car rental, retail, oil and gas, financial services, aircraft and biofuels.

Among his recent representations:

• Localiza Rent a Car, the largest car rental and fleet management company in Latin America, Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição, a pioneer in the Brazilian retail food industry, and Mahle Metal Leve, a Brazilian subsidiary of Mahle GmbH, a German automotive parts manufacturer, in their equity follow-on offerings
• GOL, Brazil’s largest domestic airline, in its private placement of notes under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and in the subsequent reopenings of such private placement
• FS Bioenergia, one of Brazil’s largest producers of ethanol and a market leader in the production of environmentally friendly biofuels (as well as a leading Brazilian producer of animal nutrition products made from corn), in the modified Dutch cash tender offer and the intermediated cash tender offer and consent solicitation to amend the indenture related to its notes due 2025 and in its offering of green notes due 2031
• The initial purchasers in offerings of senior notes by Braskem, the largest petrochemical company in Latin America
• Embraer, the third largest aircraft manufacturer globally, in its offering of notes due 2030 and in the cash tender offer for its outstanding notes due 2025
• The initial purchasers in the offering of sustainability-linked notes by Aegea, the largest privately-owned water and sewage service provider in Brazil, involving its commitment regarding social liability matters and to reduce energy consumption in its operations
• Usina Coruripe, a leading company in the Brazilian sugar and ethanol industry, in a consent solicitation to amend the terms of the indenture related to its outstanding notes
• StoneCo, a leading provider of financial technology and software solutions company in Brazil, in its revolving securitization facility from the US International Development Finance Corporation, an agency of the US government, in the first transaction to use US dollar to fund a Brazilian credit receivables fund (FIDC). The facility acquires accounts receivables due by over twenty different non-systemic important Brazilian financial institutions that are credit card issuers
• The Bank of Nova Scotia in the credit facility granted to Patromonio Autónomo Caoba to finance energy transmission infrastructures in Colombia
• Banco Itaú BBA, Latin America’s largest corporate and investment bank, in the equity support agreements and NY law guarantees related to Brazilian real estate receivables certificates (CRIs) financing for Brookfield

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Brito earned his LL.M. from the New York University School of Law and earned his J.D. and B.A. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. He is fluent in Portuguese and English.