Marcelo Valenca
Lawyers
Associate in our Corporate practice, based in London.
Marcelo has experience in a broad range of corporate law matters. He advises corporate, investment banking and private equity clients on corporate finance, M&A, early-stage investments, restructuring and general corporate advisory matters.
Marcelo is a native Portuguese speaker.
Experience highlights
- Bookrunner on the IPO and Uganda Securities Exchange listing of Cipla Quality Chemicals Industries
- ContourGlobal on its:
- £1.7 billion IPO and London premium listing
- UK Listing Rules aspects of its acquisition of Acciona Termosolar
- Delphi on its $300 million senior notes offering
- Ferguson on its $750 million senior notes offering
- Freeline Therapeutics Holdings on its $158.8 million IPO
- IHS Markit on its $500 million senior notes offering
- Joint bookrunners and co-managers in connection with a $1 billion notes offering by LafargeHolcim
- Joint global coordinators of a $82 million private placement of new ordinary shares of Harmony Gold Mining
- Joint lead managers in connection with a $1 billion notes offering by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi on its €80 million follow-on offering
- Lead dealer managers in connection with $650 million exchange offers by Ensco
- Natura on its €1 billion acquisition of The Body Shop from L’Oréal
- Royalty Pharma on its:
- $2.5 billion IPO
- $728 million secondary offering
- Sponsor to Vedanta Resources on the acquisition by its Indian listed subsidiary, Vedanta Limited, of Electrosteel Steels
- Tencent on its €300 million investment in Ubisoft
- Verisk Analytics on its acquisition of Sequel
- Oryzon Genomics on its private placement of 6,666,667 ordinary shares pursuant to a capital increase
Prior to joining Davis Polk, Marcelo worked in private practice and as an in-house counsel in Brazil.
Education
LL.M., University of Cambridge
LL.M., Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
LL.B., Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Professional history
- Davis Polk since 2016
- Cascione, Pulino, Boulos Advogados (Brazil), 2011-2015
Qualifications and admissions
- England and Wales