Ivo Waisberg
Partner
TWK Advogados
Ivo has been advising clients on debt restructuring, insolvency and business litigation for more than 10 years, having played an important role in some of the most challenging reorganization cases in Brazil, including advising investors and sellers in the divestment of assets of companies in distress.
Ivo Waisberg has more than 25 years of experience in legal practice – in matter involving business, corporate, banking, antitrust and contract law – having assisted large companies and banks by representing their interests in large-scale transactions involving financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, agribusiness and also on strategic litigations relating to such areas. He has also represented clients in highly complex litigation cases and negotiations.
Ivo also participates in commercial and corporate arbitration, both as counsel for the parties and as an arbitrator, as he is included in the list of arbitrators of the Chamber of Market Arbitration of the São Paulo Stock Exchange – CAM BMF&Bovespa, among others.
Waisberg has been cited many times as one of the leading attorneys practicing in areas related to commercial law, bankruptcy law and debt restructuring by renowned international publications such as Latin Lawyer, Legal 500 and Chambers Latin America.
Ivo is also a professor of commercial law at the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), both in undergraduate and graduate programs. He is also a visiting professor in commercial law courses organized by local business school GVLaw.
He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 1996; his Master’s degree in Commercial Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2001; completed the Master of Laws – LLM program in Economic Regulation and Antitrust at New York University in 2003; obtained his PhD in International Economic Relations from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2005 and his Full Professor degree (post-doctorate) in Commercial Law from the Catholic University of São Paulo in 2015.