Pinheiro Guimarães renders legal services to structurers, investors, managers, top management, coordinators of offers and other participants in the industry of investment funds.  The services consist of advising as to the structure, regulatory and tax evaluation, constitution and distribution of quotas of investment funds.  Pinheiro Guimarães counsels its clients with respect to all kinds of investment funds, focusing especially on structured transactions that make use of credit rights investments funds (FIDCs), funds for investment in equity (FIPs), real estate investments funds (FIIs), funds for financing the national cinematographic industry (FUNCINES) and non-standard credit rights investments funds (FIDCs – NP), among others.

The services rendered include regulatory and tax analyses related to the constitution and distribution of investment-fund quotas as well as the drafting and negotiation of regulations, contracts related to each type of investment fund, prospectuses and other offering materials.

Pinheiro Guimarães has extensive experience in the structuring of investment funds to meet specific demands of clients, with the documentation and structure developed specially for each transaction.  Advising the clients in this regard includes identifying the best vehicle to meet the specific needs of each transaction, regardless of whether the transaction is one of securitization, private equity or structured finance.  It also includes the negotiation and drafting of documentation necessary to conclude the transaction.