São Paulo
Since 2006, Gunderson Dettmer has supported entrepreneurship and venture capital investment in Latin America and is proud to have played an important role with many of the region’s most impactful companies and transactions. Our Latin America team has a thriving practice representing 200 of the region’s most innovative high-growth companies and dozens of the leading investors in Latin America. We have handled over 500 transactions for clients in the region since 2021.
Our São Paulo office serves as the firm’s hub for its thriving Latin America practice, for which the firm has earned accolades from PitchBook and others for handling more venture financings in the region than any other law firm in the world.
Gunderson Dettmer is known for its extensive experience negotiating financing transactions for emerging companies and their investors. Our Latin America practice is no different, and we handle more venture financings in the region than any other law firm in the world. According to Pitchbook, since 2021, we represented companies or investors in nearly 400 financings in Latin America, more than twice as many as the next closest law firm. We have represented companies in more than $4.5 billion in mergers and acquisitions transactions in Latin America since 2014, including the acquisition of 99 Taxis by Didi in 2018, the acquisition of Vivareal by OLX Brasil in 2020, the acquisition of Cornershop by Uber in 2020, the acquisition of Elo7 by Etsy in 2021, and the acquisition of Neoway by B3 in 2021, and the acquisition of Technisys by SoFi in 2022.
In addition to world-class transactional experience, our Latin America clients benefit from unique attributes of our practice.
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