Hybrid Mid-level Attorney — Restructuring & Insolvency

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About the role

  • Lawyer specializing in restructuring and insolvency at Lefosse in São Paulo, Brazil. Involves working on judicial recoveries, audits, and interactions with clients.

Responsibilities

  • Insolvency proceedings: work on judicial reorganization (recuperação judicial), extrajudicial restructuring (recuperação extrajudicial) and bankruptcy, developing strategies, drafting procedural filings, participating in creditors' meetings, and monitoring debtors' and other creditors' strategies and actions.
  • Debt enforcement: strategic discussions and drafting of procedural pleadings, always aiming to maximize recovery for our clients.
  • Audits: review of financial contracts, debt restructurings (including those involving M&A), and litigation related to credit and collateral.
  • Debt restructuring: negotiating restructurings inside and outside the judicial environment and drafting and structuring legal instruments (agreements, memoranda of understanding, debt instruments — including capital markets instruments — and security instruments) to document these negotiations.
  • General advisory: memoranda on insolvency procedures, credit risks, optimal recovery strategies, stress-scenario assessments and recommended measures, and the creation and validity of guarantees/collateral.
  • Litigation: handling disputes for credit recovery and related actions, as well as bankruptcy, judicial reorganization and extrajudicial restructuring proceedings.
  • Client interaction: aligning strategies with clients and answering legal questions related to restructuring and insolvency.
  • Monitoring: keeping up to date with relevant case law, precedent-setting cases and legislative changes that impact the insolvency and credit recovery sector.
  • Knowledge sharing: drafting articles, bulletins and presentations on relevant legal topics in the practice area.

Requirements

  • Law degree completed between 07/2022 and 12/2019.
  • Active registration with the OAB — São Paulo (Brazilian Bar Association).
  • Advanced/Fluent English.
  • Experience in restructuring and insolvency litigation, including enforcement proceedings for credit recovery and related actions, as well as bankruptcy, judicial reorganization and extrajudicial restructuring cases.
  • Excellent legal drafting skills for procedural filings and legal opinions.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance.
  • Meal Allowance (Vale Refeição).
  • Life Insurance.
  • Gympass.
  • Daycare Assistance.
  • Transportation Allowance / Parking.
  • Profit Sharing (PLR).
  • Hybrid work model.
  • Short Fridays.
  • Birthday day off.
  • Education subsidy.
  • Expense allowance (for hybrid or 100% remote roles).
  • Equipment purchase subsidy (for hybrid or 100% remote roles).

Job title

Mid-level Attorney — Restructuring & Insolvency

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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