Mr. Anderson joined White & Case in 2000. Mr. Anderson concentrates on international finance and banking, especially in areas of securities, project financing, and aircraft financing.  His languages include English, Portuguese and Spanish and he is admitted to practice both in New York and in Brazil. Mr. Anderson also worked at White & Case's New York office. He has also completed a six-month secondment at GE Commercial Finance Capital Solutions (Equipment Finance Division). 

Representative matters:

• Representation of Fortis Capital Corp. and Calyon New York Branch as lead arrangers for an approximately US$500 million non-recourse financing of the construction and initial operation of a 241.8 MW coal-fired electric generating facility in Ventanas, Chile.  AES Gener was the sponsor of the Project.  (Latin American Power Deal of the Year 2007 - Project Finance)
• Representation of Calyon, Milan Branch and Natixis, Milan Branch in their capacity as accreting (SOAR) lenders in the SOAR loan granted to the lessors, in the structuring and negotiation of a complex Italian tax lease of four Boeing aircraft to the Brazilian airline TAM, for a total deal value of approximately US$640 million.  The deal included the negotiation of the financing documentation, including lease agreements, indemnity agreements, security documents and the facility agreements between PEFCO, US Ex-Im Bank, Calyon, Natixis, Société Générale and TAM.  (2008 Latin America Deal of the Year – Airfinance)
• Representation of Fibria Celulose S.A. (the company resulting from a merger between Votorantim Celulose e Papel S.A. and Aracruz Celulose S.A.), in connection with a US$1.175 billion secured export prepayment facility to its Hungarian export trading company. The facility was jointly arranged by Banc of America Securities LLC, Deutsche Bank AG, New York Branch and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., with Union Bank N.A. acting as administrative agent and collateral agent. (Pre-export Financing Deal of the Year 2009 - Trade Finance)
• Representation of Aracruz Celulose S.A., a Brazilian company with ADRs listed on the NYSE and the world's largest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp, in its landmark restructuring of US$2.7 billion in derivative losses and other bank debt, which included 14 creditors and involved a comprehensive export-backed credit facility secured by plants, real property and forests and in connection with the restructuring of certain of its bilateral debt with Sumitomo Mistui Banking Corporation and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi through separate secured export-based facilities.
• Representation of Fibria Overseas Finance Ltd., as issuer, in a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of 9.25% notes due 2019, in a total aggregate principal amount of US$1.0 billion. The notes were guaranteed by Brazil's Votorantim Celulose e Papel S.A. (VCP), the world's largest market pulp producer. This offering was arranged by BofA Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank Securities and J.P.Morgan.
• Representation of JBS S.A., the largest producer and exporter of beef and beef by-products in Latin America with operations in Brazil and Argentina, and the selling shareholders, in a R$1,616.8 million (approximately U.S.$808.4 million) initial public offering and secondary offering, of a total of 202,093,800 common shares listed on the Novo Mercado segment of the São Paulo Stock Exchange.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 2006
Brazil Bar (São Paulo), 2001

Education
LLM, Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar, Columbia University School of Law, 2005
LLM, with distinction, University of Warwick (Warwick Law School), 2003
BL, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, 1999

Publications
Co-authored chapter entitled "Overview on Eurobond Issuances by Brazilian Issuers," in International Business Transactions with Brazil, Juris Publishing Inc., 2008.
"Regulatory and Supervisory Independence: Is there a case for independent monetary authorities in Brazil?", ABA/SMU/University of London Law and Business Review of the Americas, Spring Edition, 2004.
"Corporate Governance in Brazil: Recent Improvements and New Challenges," ABA/SMU/University of London Law and Business Review of the Americas, Spring Edition, 2003.
"A Tributação das Entidades Fechadas de Previdência Privada - Uma visão geral" (Taxation of closed pension funds - an overview), in Revista de Direito Tributário Atual, No. 16, Editora Dialética, São Paulo, Brazil, 2002.

Languages
English
Portuguese
Spanish

Citizenship
Brazil