C MOTTA’s team brings together professionals with a strong track record in corporate legal advisory, working on complex transactions and high-stakes decisions. Its partners and lawyers have experience across corporate law, corporate governance, capital markets, shareholder advisory, board, committee, and executive matters, and strategic transactions, combining technical depth, analytical judgment, and a clear understanding of business realities.

Founding Partner

Guilherme Tranquillini

Guilherme Tranquillini brings more than twenty years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, private equity/venture capital, and corporate governance to some of the market’s most complex transactions. His practice spans buy-side and sell-side M&A, corporate reorganizations, private equity and venture capital deals, strategic divestitures, and the structuring of sophisticated shareholder and corporate arrangements, serving controlling and minority shareholders, investment funds, and C-level executives across public and privately held companies in Brazil and abroad.

Executive compensation is a further area of concentration: he structures equity-based long-term incentive arrangements, including stock option plans (SOPs), restricted stock units (RSUs), and phantom shares.

His transactional experience spans the franchising, technology, healthcare, agribusiness, and education sectors. Within franchising specifically, he advises both franchisors and franchisees on the negotiation of franchise and master franchise agreements, including in international contexts.

Recognized for the strategic handling of complex negotiations, he structures legal solutions that enable transactions, align interests, and unlock negotiation impasses — an approach grounded in technical sophistication, objectivity, and pragmatic business insight.

Guilherme Tranquillini

"Guilherme Tranquillini closely coordinated all due diligence and contract drafting work performed. He demonstrated legal knowledge above that of his peers on the other side of the negotiating table. He has excellent advocacy skills, as well as solid financial knowledge." - The Legal 500

"Guilherme Tranquillini is an excellent professional and is always attentive to the group's needs." - The Legal 500

"Next Generation Partner" - The Legal 500

Professional Background

With continuous practice in corporate law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets, Guilherme Tranquillini has built his career at leading law firms.

He was an associate at one of Brazil’s largest law firms and subsequently served as a partner at a global law firm from January 2020 to February 2026, in the Corporate & Securities practice.

He also spent one year in the legal department of one of the world’s largest investment banks.

A detailed record of his positions and professional experience is available at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guilherme-tranquillini-9b398a62/

Email:
gtranquillini@cmotta.com.br

Education

Bachelor of Laws, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), 2005

Languages

  • Portuguese
  • English

"It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision."

Barbara Jordan, 1974

Contact Us

Dr. Cardoso de Melo Avenue, 1855 | 12th floor | 121B
Brasílio Machado Building | Vila Olímpia | CEP: 04548-005


                  
We handle exclusively highly complex matters. If you are seeking legal counsel led by senior lawyers, with the intelligence and discretion your business or transaction demands, we are ready to talk.