Luiz F. Noronha

As Counsel in Simpson Thacher’s São Paulo office, Luiz F. Noronha advises clients on cross-border transactions, particularly those involving Brazil and Latin America. His practice spans mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital investments, and equity and debt capital markets offerings. He represents leading public and private companies, private equity sponsors, venture capital firms and investment banks across a broad range of industries, including technology, banking, financial services, healthcare and infrastructure.

Luiz’s M&A clients across Latin America have included leading private equity sponsors and fund managers, such as The Blackstone Group, Advent International, CVC, H.I.G. Capital, SoftBank, Pátria Investimentos and Riverwood, as well as companies including Braskem, BTG Pactual, The Boeing Company, Grant Thornton Advisors and Vinci Partners. His capital markets practice complements this work: he advises issuers and investment banks on public and private offerings of equity and debt securities across sectors, with particular experience in IPOs and follow-on offerings involving Brazilian issuers. As Latin Lawyer 250 has noted, Luiz “has been hailed by clients for his creative thinking and agility.”

Selected M&A transactions include:

• BTG Pactual in its acquisition of Banamex shares from Citi
• BTG Pactual in its investments in Banco Plata (Mexico) and Addi (Colombia)
• CVC in the sale of Hermes Transportes Blindados S.A. to Loomis (closing pending)
• Grant Thornton Advisors in expanding its multinational platform through the acquisitions of Grant Thornton Brazil and Grant Thornton Puerto Rico
• Vinci Partners in its business combination with Compass Group
• Blackstone in its sale of the Hilton Rio de Janeiro Copacabana Hotel
• Braskem America, Inc. in its acquisition of taulman3D and minority investment in Nexus Circular, LLC
• Advent as an investor in multiple equity investment rounds in Merama
• Companies including Dock, Conexa Saúde, Brandlovers and Fluency Academy in connection with funding rounds
• Nadir Figueiredo, an H.I.G. Capital portfolio company, in its acquisition of Cristar TableTop in Colombia from subsidiaries of O-I Glass
• Pátria Investimentos in the sale of Highline do Brasil to DigitalBridge and Agrichem do Brasil to Nutrien
• The Boeing Company in its commercial aviation joint venture with Embraer (terminated)
• SoftBank in several growth investments in Brazilian companies, including VTEX, Banco Inter, Olist and MadeiraMadeira
• Technology Crossover Ventures in its investment in Nubank
• Netshoes (Cayman) Limited in its merger with a subsidiary of Magazine Luiza S.A.

Selected capital markets transactions include:

• Multiple IPOs and follow-on offerings on the B3 involving companies including DASA, Oncoclínicas, MRV Engenharia, BTG Pactual, Casas Bahia, SmartFit, Hidrovias do Brasil and Cury Engenharia, among others
• Dealers and placement agents in multiple bond offerings involving Banco BTG Pactual and Andrade Gutierrez
• Underwriters in CI&T’s SEC-registered IPO on the NYSE

A graduate of the University of São Paulo and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School, he joined Simpson Thacher in 2017. He is admitted to practice law in New York and authorized as a foreign legal consultant by the São Paulo Bar Association (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil – São Paulo), and is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish.