Elora Farias

Primary Focus & Experience

Elora’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. She has experience across a broad range of industries, including healthcare, technology, oil and gas, financial services and aircraft.

Among her recent representations:

• Hapvida, one of the largest healthcare and dental plan operators in Brazil, and Localiza Rent a Car, the largest car rental and fleet management company in Latin America, in their equity follow-on offerings
• StoneCo., a leading provider of financial technology and software solutions company in Brazil (SEC registered and US listed) 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 funding to fund a Brazilian credit receivables fund (Fundo de Investimento de Direito Creditório)
• Abra Group, a leading air transportation group in Latin America and controller of Avianca and Gol, in the financing through the private placement of notes issued by Gol, which may be exchanged for exchangeable senior secured notes also issued by Gol and in its Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of exchangeable and senior notes
• The underwriters in the Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of green bonds by Raízen, one of the leading integrated energy companies in the world and the third largest energy company in Brazil operating in the biofuels and renewable energy sector
• Gol, Brazil’s largest domestic airline, in its Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of exchangeable notes and in its private placement of notes under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, as well as in the subsequent reopenings of the private placement
• Macquarie Bank Limited in the upsizing of a structured loan obtained by the IBT Health Group to finance the operations of the Villa Maria and Callao hospitals in Peru
• The lenders in amendments to Framework and Facility Agreements executed with Klabin S.A., related to the Klabin Puma I and Klabin Puma II project financing, to substitute LIBOR for SOFR.
• The lenders in the amendment to include a subsidiary of Braskem as an applicant to its LC Facilities
• Itaú Unibanco Holding and Grupo Pão de Açúcar in corporate finance and SEC reporting matters
• Itaú Unibanco Holding in its Medium Term Note Programme and related offerings

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Farias earned her LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where she graduated as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and earned her LL.B from Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. She is fluent in Portuguese and English.