Organic and inorganic growth opportunities in the Ports & Terminals and Logistics sectors for DP World in the Americas region.Overseeing Corporate Development activities across the Americas, focusing on Ports & Terminals, Contract Logistics, and Freight Forwarding. Projects include investment decisions, M&A, joint ventures, greenfield developments, and expansions across multiple countries, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, and others.

Identified, sourced, cultivated relationships with, and invested in entrepreneurs/companies (mostly pre-seed/seed capital stage and early stage, but also angel investing stage). Current investment portfolio comprises 13 innovative companies in the AI & analytics, fintech, and super foods markets in the UK, USA and Brazil.* Nibble - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nibbletechnology/* Olivia AI, Inc. - https://www.linkedin.com/company/olivia-ai-inc/* Syndio - https://www.linkedin.com/company/syndioinc/* Nude - Plant Based Foods - https://www.linkedin.com/company/nude-plant-based-foods/* LOWKO - https://www.linkedin.com/company/lowko/* Baims - https://www.linkedin.com/company/baims-cosmeticos-organicos/about/* Vegan Business - https://www.linkedin.com/company/vegan-business/* SLOUL - https://www.linkedin.com/company/sloul/* Chameleon Sun - https://www.linkedin.com/company/chameleonsun/* Conví Foods - https://www.linkedin.com/company/alimentos-convitta/* mesttra. - https://www.linkedin.com/company/mesttra/* Catches - https://www.linkedin.com/company/catches/* DUNNING - https://www.linkedin.com/company/dunningbrasil/

Full-time residential unique immersive programme in finance, strategy, management and leadership for experienced global professionals.Focus on: Corporate Finance, M&A and Corporate Reorganisations, Corporate and Business Unit Strategy, Private Equity, Corporate Turnaround, Distressed Investing.

Brazilian Association of Bonded Warehousing Terminals• Directed major strategic regulatory improvements for cargo clearance and delivery.

Association of Private Port Terminals• Directed and set pace for several key regulatory matters concerning private ports and logistics investments, ensuring legal protection for domestic and foreign investments.

Port Authority Council of the Santos Port Complex• Directed and set pace for several key regulatory matters concerning the Port of Santos, which is the busiest container port in Latin America.

Brazilian Association of Port Terminals• Directed and set pace for several key regulatory matters concerning public concessions and private ports and logistics investments, ensuring legal protection for domestic and foreign investments.

• Led the legal, institutional relations, compliance, and human capital departments, heading a team of 25 people as well as coaching and developing more junior colleagues.• Provided strategic legal and institutional advice to the Head Office (UAE) and Americas Region Office (USA) related to ports and logistics businesses, assisting in sourcing multimillion USD cross-border transactions and investment opportunities, M&A deals, business development and complex market entries.• Led a multimillion USD project finance debt restructuring and out-of-court turnaround process.• Led a multimillion USD investment and commercial long-term deal with one of the world’s leading pulp and cellulose companies.• Advised on multimillion USD M&A transactions and development of new businesses, with exposure to valuation and financial modelling, and active participation in the negotiations and management of the due diligence and drafting processes. Engaged actively and played a lead role in originating, evaluating and executing M&A deals and investment projects, dealing with all sorts of complex legal, operational and financing/debt structures.• Secured multimillion USD businesses by leading the negotiations of several highly complex commercial contracts, and multiple types of partnerships with major players and stakeholders.• Had pivotal role in setting the commercial, financial, and operational strategies. Engaged actively in business development and marketing strategies formulation and implementation, supporting the company to substantially grow its business.• Established solid network across the infrastructure, ports and logistics leaders’ community. Was active in the market, supporting and enhancing existing and new customers and stakeholders relationships.• Successfully directed strategic litigation, in multimillion USD high-profile cases involving complex commercial and regulatory matters before the higher courts and regulatory agency.

Brazilian Association of the Infrastructure and Capital Goods Industries• Engaged actively to support the new Ports Law enacted in 2013 and subsequent legislation and decrees.

Now BRK AMBIENTAL; sold to BROOKFIELD BUSINESS PARTNERS LP in 2017.• Directed the negotiation of large and highly complex M&A transactions, Teaming agreements, Joint Ventures, Shareholders’ and Investment agreements. Managed negotiations, deal structuring, due diligence processes, and legal closings. Key deals include: (a) M&A transactions and Joint Ventures with major pension funds in Brazil (e.g. FI-FGTS and FUNCEF), (b) Joint Ventures with major state-owned companies (e.g. SABESP, COPASA and CEDAE) or global private companies, and (c) Acquisition and restructuring of a water supply and wastewater network companies in Brazil, involving more than 100 municipalities and serving over 15 million people.• Provided innovative business solutions and strategic legal advice on major and highly complex concession and public-private partnership (PPP) projects in water and waste water networks and industrial utilities in Brazil and other Latin American countries. Keys projects include: (a) PPP for the operation of the wastewater system in the Metropolitan Region of Recife (15 municipalities) in the State of Pernambuco, (b) concession for the operation of the water supply and wastewater system in 47 municipalities in the State of Tocantins (Saneatins), and (c) concession for the operation of the wastewater system in the Planning Area 5 (AP5), which serves 21 neighbourhoods in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro.• Led relevant Project Finance deals with domestic financial institutions.

• Provided business and legal advice on major and highly complex concession and public-private partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects for highways, water and sanitation, urban transport, and ports in Brazil and other Latin American countries. Advised on relevant Project Finance deals with domestic and international financial institutions.• Responsible for negotiating engineering and construction agreements for public and/or private developments in several engineering and heavy construction areas.

• Advised on multimillion USD corporate restructurings and M&As.• Structured multimillion USD public-private partnership (PPPs) and concession projects.• Delivered legal opinions on regulatory law complex issues.