Charles Johnson is the head of our office in São Paulo, Brazil where he has been based since January 2002. He represents financial institutions, public and private companies, private equity funds and hedge funds on a wide range of financial and commercial transactions.

Charles has more than twenty-five years of cross-border experience with particular focus on financial restructurings and structured trade, project, asset and development/export credit agency financings in emerging markets, especially Brazil and wider Latin America. He also has extensive experience of advising in relation to commercial matters, particularly in the mining, wastewater/sanitation, energy and offshore oil sectors.

Charles is named in the current editions of Chambers Latin America, Legal 500 Latin America, Latin Lawyer 250, Who's Who Legal and ILFR 1000 as one of the leading locally based international lawyers for banking and finance in Brazil.