Jonathan Kellner is a partner in the Corporate Group and the Head of our São Paulo office

His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, capital markets, bank finance and investment funds for United States and Latin America corporations and financial institutions. Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, Jonathan has experience working on transactions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay.

• General Electric on its acquisition of a 24.99% stake in YPF Energía Eléctrica (YPF EE) from YPF S.A. for US$ 310 million (ongoing);
• Texas Pacific Group in its acquisition of, Brazilian electricity transmission assets from Abengoa for R$482.6 million (ongoing);
• PagSeguro Digital Ltd. in its IPO of US$ 121,193,388 Class A common shares, listed on the New York Stock Exchange;
• Azul with respect to the US$ 450 million equity investment from Hainan Group;
• Mubadala with respect to the restructuring of its investment in the EBX Group;
• Gávea Investimentos Ltda. in its acquisition of a minority stake in Stone Pagamentos through an investment in DLP Payments Holdings Ltd.;
• Temasek with respect to its equity investment in Netshoes Limited;
• Cyrela Commercial Properties on its joint venture with Prologis and on its subsequent sale of its stake in the joint venture for R$ 1.2 billion and in a swap transaction with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for 33.4% stake in its commercial real estate portfolio;
• Estre Ambiental on the US$100 million sale of its 10% interest in U.S. sanitation company Star Atlantic Waste Holdings II, to BTG Pactual;
• Barzel Properties Gestora de Recursos on the creation of a R$400 million investment fund to develop commercial real estate opportunities in Brazil.We also advised the founders of Barzel on the setting up of a real estate management company with GIC.

• Jonathan was named a “Rising Star” in Debt Capital Markets and Equity Capital Markets in the 2014 edition of IFLR1000.