Fernanda Bastos Buhatem Email & Phone Number

Fernanda Bastos Buhatem is a strategy specialist, deal maker and lawyer, focused on negotiations, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, corporate law and corporate governance. Board member and strategy advisor in several companies. Member of Advisory Board of M&A Section at FGV Rio de Janeiro.Fernanda assisted over R$28 billion (aprox. USD 5 billion) in worldwide transactions, with more than 25 years of expertise in corporate sector and corporate law. She has acted as partner of one of the main Brazilian law firms and has been referred to as one of the main M&A counselors in Brazil by The Legal 500 and Latin Lawyer 250.Her practice includes a wide range of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investments, private equity and joint ventures, as well as various corporate transactions. With more than 25 years of experience, Fernanda until recently worked as a partner in one of the main Brazilian law firms.Enthusiastic about the digital era and professional training courses that reflect the needs of the business market, in 2019 Fernanda created "Conexão Legal", a training company focused on Corporate Law, with hundreds of lawyers already trained in Corporate Law and M&A throughout Brazil.Former President of the Corporate Law Commission of the Brazilian Association of Lawyers - ABA Rio de Janeiro. Member of the Business Law Committees of OAB/RJ and OAB Nacional. Coordinator of the book "Brasil M&A – Guide for Mergers and Acquisitions of Brazilian Companies".Member of the community of leaders of Fundação Estudar (scholarship - 2006). Co-founder of the Mulheres do Mercado group in Rio de Janeiro.Fernanda has been nominated several times as one of the leading M&A lawyers in Brazil by The Legal 500 and Latin Lawyer 250. Fernanda has also been nominated as one of the protagonists of Business Law in Brazil by Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

Listed skills include Direito Corporativo, Aconselhamento De Carreira, and Desenvolvimento De Carreira.