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Gabriel Leão Vazami
Gabriel Leão Vazami
Lawyer
Advises on local and transnational mergers and acquisitions, such as asset sales, joint ventures and other corporate transactions, corporate reorganizations, corporate routines of publicly held companies and financing operations. Experience in formation and structuring/restructuring of Brazilian Football Corporations (Sociedades Anônimas do Futebol), and in developing corporate governance structure of same, and structuring football club debt. Experience in the preparation, analysis, negotiation and review of several commercial and sports and entertainment industry contracts, such as distribution, commercial representation, supply, sponsorship and partnership, naming rights, transfer of athletes, assignment of image rights and co-production contracts and investment of audiovisual works. Represents and advises clients before the courts of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (Fifa) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Experience in the food and beverage, sports, entertainment, intellectual property, services, retail, electricity and Startups.
Recent acknowledgments
- Latin Lawyer: Deal of the Year Awards, reconhecido no "Private Equity Deal of the Year" (2023)
Education
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- Fundação Getúlio Vargas - GVlaw, São Paulo - Postgraduate Course in Corporate Law, 2021
- University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, United States - LL.M., 2019
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo, PUC-SP - Bachelor of Laws, 2013
Relevant experience
- Greenberg Traurig, P.A., United States (2019-2020)
Entities
- Brazilian Bar Association
- New York State Bar