New Globonder - Edmundo Nejm

Edmundo Nejm is a Globond member in São Paulo with a passion for advising people and organizations and providing tailor-made services, in Brazil and worldwide, regarding the legal, business and financial issues that make a difference in his clients’ professional, personal and philanthropic success.

Edmundo is a seasoned lawyer and consultant who sees the big picture as well as key details, has sensitivity to interculturally matters, creatively uncovers opportunities and solves problems, balances effectiveness and efficiency, and exemplifies the consummate lawyer’s profile (rational thinking, personal touch, assertive support, and integrity standards).

Attending St. Paul’s, a British primary and middle school in São Paulo and an American high school led to Edmundo embarking on an international career path and becoming adept at intercultural work. From his parents, he acquired explicit ethical standards, integrity and values, which have been essential in his professional success and conduct of his life. Through his father, who owned a school and also taught at a government-owned school, he absorbed a sense of responsibility to help individuals and the larger community.

Edmundo conducts an independent legal and consultant private practice in São Paulo. His specialties include corporate finance, structuring international transactions, international capital markets, banking, project financing and advice on complex negotiations]. His ideal clients are creative businesspeople, with groundbreaking projects and plans.

In his more than 20-year career in the legal profession, Edmundo has distinguished himself in the specialties of global securities and banking law, internationally and especially in Brazil. He was a Partner and the Head of Finance Practice in Lefosse Advogados, São Paulo Office, which works in cooperation with Linklaters LLP, a major global legal practice. On his way to becoming a Linklaters Partner, he held the positions of Foreign Visiting Lawyer (seconded by Pinheiro Neto Advogados, a leading law firm in Brazil, to Linklaters offices in London and New York), Associate (New York), and Senior Associate (São Paulo).

In the areas of Brazilian securities and banking law, Edmundo represented a wide variety of investment banking, commercial banking, and large corporate clients. He developed a deep expertise in equity and debt offerings of Brazilian private and governmental issuers – both domestic and offshore – and Brazilian banking regulation – especially regulatory aspects of foreign bank activities in Brazil and bank derivatives activities, project finance, asset securitization, and structured finance transactions. He started his career at Pinheiro Neto, Advogados, going from Law Clerk to Associate to Sênior Associate, in São Paulo.

Edmundo has had a significant role in these important transactions of his clients, including Banco Industrial e Comercial S.A., RBS Consortium, Noble Group, Banco VR, various asset management companies, International Finance Corporation, and Asian Development Bank.

Edmundo is well known in Brazil for working closely with his clients to achieve their goals and protect them, thus essentially becoming a virtual in-house lawyer. In 2008, Chambers Legal, a magazine that ranks law offices and lawyers worldwide, named him as a “Leading Individual in Capital Markets and Banking-and-Finance.”

Edmundo’s higher education started with a LL.B at the São Paulo University. Subequently he earned the LL.M at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. He is a member of the Bar of São Paulo.

Edmundo’s interests include jogging, tennis, golfing, reading and collecting cars.

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New Globonder - Edmundo Nejm