Marcello Hallake

• Advised a European multinational utilities company in its winning bid to acquire a natural gas pipeline company from a petroleum industry company for US$8.6 billion in a competitive auction, the largest cash acquisition and privatization to date in Brazil.
• Represented a global food processing company in the formation of a joint venture with an American multinational food processing and commodities trading corporation in the Americas.
• Counseled a global food processing company on its acquisition of a Dutch plant-based food manufacturer.
• Advised a European multinational company on a strategic alliance and investment agreement with two petroleum companies in the Dominican Republic. 
• Represented a Brazilian power generation company in its purchase for cash of a purchase price of US$243.9 million aggregate principal amount of its 9.25 percent senior notes due 2024.
• Represented a syndicate of international and Brazilian investment banks in the completion of a US$1.5 billion senior notes offering and tender offers totaling US$1.75 billion by a global Brazilian food processing company. 
• Represented a syndicate of international placement agents in the completion of a BRL3 billion primary and secondary offering of common shares by a Brazilian power generation company.
• Represented a syndicate of international and Brazilian investment banks in the completion of a US$500 million senior notes offering by a global Brazilian food processing company.
• Represented the selling shareholders of an Argentina medical diagnostic imaging center company in its sale to a Brazilian medical diagnosis company.
• Represented a European multinational energy company in its acquisition of a 70 percent interest in a company in the Dominican Republic.
• Advised a syndicate of international and Brazilian investment banks in an international offering of US$500 million of 6.625 percent senior notes due 2029 by a subsidiary of one of Brazil's largest food processing companies, and its concurrent tender offers for two series of its outstanding debt securities.
• Advised a syndicate of international banks in an international offering of US$1 billion of 6.875 percent senior notes due 2025 by one of Brazil's largest food processing companies, and its concurrent tender offers for two series of its outstanding debt securities.

The Legal 500 Latin America

• Recommended, Corporate and M&A (2024)
• Recommended, Projects and Energy (2024)

Leaders League

• Highly Recommended, Capital Markets – Brazil, Best International Law Firms (2025)
• Recommended, Mergers & acquisitions – Brazil, Best International Law Firms (2025)

Additional Awards

• Latinvex, Latin America's Top 100 Lawyers (2022)
• The Best Lawyers in Brazil (2022)
• Who's Who Legal Brazil — Energy (2022)