Stephen Hood & Partners,
a boutique law firm,
was set up during the second half of 2020, receiving its formal license to practice New York and English law from the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil - Seção São Paulo in early January 2021.
The strategy of Stephen Hood & Partners is, in its areas of focus and expertise, to deliver the transactional experience and service quality of a large global firm with a highly personal touch and a boutique approach.
The firm was launched by well-known international lawyer Stephen Hood after a long career advising many of the largest and most prominent industrial and financial corporations in the world on complex cross-border financial transactions.
Stephen Hood is possibly the most experienced international and project finance lawyer working on the ground on Brazilian and other Latin American transactions.
For several years, he has been consistently ranked in Band 1 for Latin American finance generally and separately for project finance.
Stephen Hood & Partners’ primary focus will be on Brazilian and other Latin American cross-border transactions, including USD loans, project finance, M&A and restructuring.
Stephen was a partner in Clifford Chance for more than 25 years during which he opened the firm’s Hong Kong office, established the firm’s capital markets practice from London, was managing partner of the firm's New York office (directing the firm’s move to practice New York law) and opened the firm’s practice in São Paulo. For 9 years up to mid 2020, Stephen was a partner of Davis Polk’s São Paulo office and head of this firm’s Latin American project finance practice.
Stephen Hood is joined by co-founding partner Rebecca Roman and a conselheira, both of whom have worked closely with Stephen for approximately eight years on complex projects financings, restructuring and cross-border M&A.
Going forward, the boutique will be staffed by New York and English law qualified lawyers recruited from leading international law firms and who share the initial team’s belief that there is a need in the cross-border finance and M&A market for a differentiated approach providing a more personal, focused and economic service model.
