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Isabella Correa
Isabella Correa
Senior Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets
E: icorrea@velaw.com T: +1.212.237.0155
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Senior Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets

Isabella Correa

Isabella Correa
New York
T: +1.212.237.0155
F: +1.917.591.2219

The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036

E: icorrea@velaw.com
M: +1.929.486.9771
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Isabella Correa

Isabella’s principal area of practice is mergers and acquisitions, private equity, securities offerings and general corporate representation. Her transactional experience includes advising Brazilian and international clients in complex, cross-border M&A deals and private equity investments. She has advised banks in financing and in complex debt-restructuring transactions. She has also represented issuers and underwriters in security offerings.

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • DigitalBridge and its portfolio companies on multiple digital infrastructure transactions, including the establishment of Scala Data Centers, a Latin American hyperscale data center platform headquartered in Brazil through the acquisition of assets from UOL Diveo and Algar, and the acquisition of Mundo, the owner and operator of fiber-to-the-home network and related infrastructure assets in Chile

  • Goldman Sachs on its equity investment on Elea Digital, an enterprise data center operator

  • Petrobras, a Brazilian state-owned company, on its $562 million sale of the Pasadena Refinery to Chevron

  • Funds managed by Ares Management in the acquisition and related financing of Atlas Crane Service, a full-service crane rental company that primarily serves the wind industry

  • The Rohatyn Group and other private equity funds on a U.S. dollar denominated senior secured term loan to the IT services provider Cimcorp for the acquisition of Resource group

  • The Bank of Nova Scotia, BNP Paribas, JPMorgan and Mizuho, as lenders, in connection with a $300 million Revolving Loan Facility and a $200 million Term Loan Facility to Raizen

  • The lenders on a $500 million export prepayment revolving credit facility and two $750 million export prepayment term loan facilities to Suzano

  • Scala Data Centers on the public offering and issuance of Brazilian Reais denominated local bonds (debentures) in the amount of R$1 billion (approx. US$200 million); the bonds were subscribed for by Bradesco, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Scotiabank and JP Morgan

Credentials

  • Columbia Law School, LL.M.
  • Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), Post Graduate Certificate in Corporate Law
  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Bachelor’s Degree, Law
  • Named as one of the “Top 10 rising Latin American Lawyers” by Latin Trade on November 2019
  • Ranked by the IFLR1000 as a “Notable Practitioner” in the areas of private equity, financial restructuring and debt capital markets
  • New York
  • Brazil
  • Portuguese (fluent)

News & Insights

Deals & Cases
Vinson & Elkins Advises BNP Paribas Cardif in Connection with 10-Year Agreement with Magazine Luiza S.A.
May 11, 2023
Deals & Cases
Atlas Crane Service Acquired by Ares Management
August 23, 2022
Deals & Cases
Switch Agrees to Acquire Data Foundry
May 3, 2021