Professional experience

Gabriel Rache Cardozo holds a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and participated in an academic exchange program at the University of Bonn, Germany, with a scholarship from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), during his undergraduate studies. He holds a postgraduate degree in Contract Law, with a focus on business and financial contracts, from the São Paulo Law School (FGV/SP).

His practice includes advising domestic and foreign clients across various sectors—including banking, energy, infrastructure, hospitality, and agribusiness—on a wide range of domestic and international transactions, particularly project financing, debt structuring and restructuring, regulatory matters involving publicly traded companies, financial institutions, and non-financial institutions, initial public offerings (IPOs), investment funds, public offerings and private placements of debt instruments (including debentures, promissory notes, and notes), structured assets such as real estate receivables certificates (CRIs) and agribusiness receivables certificates (CRAs), and other structured financial transactions.

He is part of the firm’s Venture Capital and Startups Practice Group, with a focus on technology and innovation, advising primarily startups and small businesses. He is a member of the Center for M&A Studies (CM&A), organized by the USP School of Law and the PUCRJ School of Law.

 

Education

• LL.B. Bachelor of Laws from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2022)
• International exchange program for two semesters at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany (2020), with a scholarship “STIBET I” from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), with funds from the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Course in Corporate Law from Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2023)
• Postgraduate Program in Business Contract Law, offered by FGV/SP (2025)

 

Publications

• Rache Cardozo, G. “Big Techs and the Principle of Informative Self-Determination: the processing of personal data by Big Techs based on the Principle of Informative Self-Determination”. Completion of course work (Graduation in Law) – School of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Porto Alegre, 2021.
• Brazils, New Capital Markets Framework for Football Clubs and Investors (SAF Law), Law In Sports.  2026 (Avaliable here)

 

 

Additional activities

• Member of the Center for M&A Studies (CM&A), organized by Law School of USP and Law School of PUCRJ.
• Speaker a the Congress Family Law in Debate, 4th edition with presentation “Cryptocurrencies in the Judiciary: jurisprudential analysis of the Family Courts of the main Courts of Justice in Brazil”. Performed in June, 2022.
• Member of the study group Constitutional Jurisprudence, in association with PUCRS Law School and case presentation on the Principle of Self-Determination and Big Techs (2021).