Domicio dos Santos Neto

Founding partner at Santos Neto Advogados. Domicio dos Santos Neto is the head of agribusiness, trade finance, corporate finance and banking. He has extensive experience in assisting foreign investors in Brazil with agility, identifying and solving problems with personalised attention and a high degree of availability. Domicio has worked for almost 24 years in structured commodity finance and he is specialised in restructurings and in the strategic coordination of actions involving a pool of creditors. In addition, he has expertise in bankruptcy law.

Domicio was admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), São Paulo Chapter, in 1990. He has an LLB (1990) and a master’s degree in tax law (1998), both from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo; and a master’s degree in commercial law from the University of Sao Paulo (2002). He is a former member of the Commission on Foreign Trade and International Relations of the São Paulo Chapter of the Brazilian Bar Association. He is a speaker in conferences and author of specialised articles in Brazil and abroad.

Education:

• Universidade de São Paulo – USP, Master’s Degree in Commercial Law
• Hague Academy of International Law, Specialization in International Law
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC/SP, Specialization in Tax Law
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC/SP, Bachelor of Laws