Elora Farias

Primary Focus & Experience

Elora’s practice focuses on providing New York law advice to Brazilian and US companies and financial institutions in a variety of cross-border transactions, including capital markets, financing and corporate. She has experience across a broad range of industries, including technology, oil and gas, logistics, financial services, energy and aircraft.

Among her recent representations:

• Embraer, the third-largest aircraft manufacturer globally, in its SEC-registered debt offering, liability management transactions, financings and its corporate finance and SEC reporting matters
• Underwriters in the SEC-registered offering of notes by Suzano, the largest producer of eucalypt pulp and virgin market pulp in the world and one of the largest vertically integrated producers of pulp and paper in Latin America
• Vamos Locação de Caminhões, Máquinas e Equipamentos, the leading company in Brazil for the leasing of trucks, heavy machinery and equipment, and part of the Simpar conglomerate of companies, in its inaugural notes offering based on Rule 144A/Regulation S
• Lumina Capital Management in its acquisition of notes in the private placement under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act issued by New Fortress Energy to refinance its business in Brazil
• Abra Group, a leading air transportation group in Latin America and controller of Avianca and Gol, in the financing through the private placement of notes issued by Gol, which may be exchanged for exchangeable senior secured notes also issued by Gol and in its Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of exchangeable and senior notes
• Initial purchasers and dealer managers in liability management and Rule 144A/Regulation S bond transactions by Brazilian petrochemicals company Braskem, integrated energy company Raízen, water and sewage service provider Aegea, basic building materials company in Brazil Votorantim Cimentos and steel producer Usiminas
• Gol, Brazil’s largest domestic airline, in its Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of exchangeable notes and in its private placement of notes under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, as well as in the subsequent reopenings of the private placement
• Itaú Unibanco Holding in its Medium Term Note Programme and related offerings and in corporate finance and SEC reporting matters
• StoneCo., a leading provider of financial technology and software solutions company in Brazil, (SEC-registered and US-listed) in its revolving securitization facility from the US International Development Finance Corporation in the first transaction to use US dollar funding to fund a Brazilian credit receivables fund (Fundo de Investimento de Direito Creditório)
• Lenders in financings for solar and storage facilities in New Mexico, California and Arizona
• Macquire Bank Limited in the upsizing of a structured loan obtained by the IBT Health Group to finance the operations of the Villa Maria and Callao hospitals in Peru
• Lenders in financings granted to Braskem, a major Brazilian petrochemicals company, Aegea Saneamento e Participações, the largest privately-owned water and sewage service provider in Brasil, and to Vamos Locação de Caminhões, Máquinas e Equipamentos, the leading company in Brazil for the leasing of trucks, heavy machinery and equipment, and part of the Simpar conglomerate of companies
• CSN, a Brazilian integrated steel and mining conglomerate, in corporate finance and SEC reporting matters

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Farias earned her LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where she graduated as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and earned her LL.B from Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. She is fluent in Portuguese and English.