Rodolpho de Oliveira Franco Protasio

Ranked In

Profile

Specialisation: Main areas of practice are general corporate, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, project finance and electric energy. Co-heads the Corporate/M&A and heads the energy practice groups of the firm. Regularly represents clients in large and sophisticated corporate transactions and infrastructure projects. Worked on numerous important acquisitions, joint ventures, privatisations and financings.

Professional Memberships: American Chamber of Commerce, São Paulo; Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos do Direito da Energia (IBDE); CESA - Centro de Estudos das Sociedades de Advogados; International Bar Association (IBA).

Career: Joined Baker & McKenzie, Rio de Janeiro, in 1987; visiting attorney at Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, from 1992 to 1994; left in 1996 to found Protasio, Zobaran, Cotait e Carneiro Advogados, subsequently renamed Mundie e Advogados. Admitted in Brazil (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília Bar Sections).

Publications: Articles in corporate law and electricity regulation in specialised publications.

Personal: Graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (LLB, 1990); post-graduation studies in tax law at Faculdade Cândido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro (1991); Orientation in American Law, University of California, Davis/Berkeley (1992); master's degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law (LLM, cum laude, 1994).