Rafael Guarilha P. de Freitas is specialized in contractual and corporate matters. He has extensive experience in consulting and dispute resolution, with a focus on commercial contracts, engineering contracts and corporate disputes.

In the area of dispute resolution, he has acted for controlling shareholders and minority shareholders in corporate disputes before arbitration chambers and at all levels of the Judiciary. He also represents companies from various sectors in commercial disputes and credit recovery operations, such as construction companies, real estate developers, electricity companies and financial institutions.

He has experience in the business area and has participated in several mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity issuance operations in Brazil and abroad. In the insolvency area, he has participated in numerous judicial reorganization processes, notably in the judicial reorganization of one of Brazil’s largest oil and gas construction companies.

He holds an LLM in Business Law from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an LLM in Commercial Law from PUC-SP, a Certificate in Business and Law from the Wharton School and a BA from Universidade Cândido Mendes.

Author of articles published in specialized magazines.

He was a partner at Leite Tosto e Barros and worked for firms such as Wald e Associados and Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva.

Raphael Rangel has a distinguished and consistent track record in strategic litigation and specialized business consulting, with solid experience in complex disputes involving corporate, contract, capital markets, and real estate law. He represents clients in all levels of the Judiciary and before Arbitration Tribunals, leading a team dedicated to projects of high relevance and complexity.

His experience also includes representing clients before regulatory agencies, administrative entities, and industry associations, such as Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (CVM), Banco Central do Brasil (BCB), Tribunal de Contas da União (TCU) and Associação Brasileira das Entidades dos Mercados Financeiro e de Capitais (ANBIMA), operating throughout Brazil.

He has postgraduate degrees in Civil Procedural Law and Real Estate Law, a law degree from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), and is a member of the Instituto dos Advogados de São Paulo (IASP).

Recognitions

• The Legal 500 2026 – Recommended Lawyer

Testimonials

“Corporate Litigation is an area of Expertise for Raphael Rangel Pereira, who is also the name to note for administrative proceedings.”
The Legal 500

“Key support is offered by Raphael Rangel Pereira whose areas of expertise include judicial and administrative proceedings involving contractual, commercial, consumer and real estate disputes”
The Legal 500