Marcelo Shima

Shima is a partner in the M&A, Venture Capital, Finance and Capital Markets practices. He advises public and private companies, private equity funds and strategic investors on complex corporate transactions and shareholder disputes. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations involving businesses across the retail, agribusiness, energy, infrastructure, sanitation, industrial and services sectors.

Before joining BZCP, he worked as a foreign associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, where he was part of the M&A and capital markets team. Shima holds a law degree from the University of São Paulo (USP), a specialization in Corporate Law from Insper, academic experience at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law (NYU).