The Firm
Acting as a boutique specialized in the areas of Financial and Banking Law and Agribusiness, our focus is on assisting Brazilian clients and foreign investors in business advisory law, both in one-off structured transactions and in the provision of constant legal advice to the legal departments of companies.
The vast, solid and diversified experience of Juliana Galante, as a partner in boutique firms, senior in-house counsel in a multinational company and investment bank, and as a lawyer in a full-service firm, as well as an extremely technical team trained in serving local and international clients, provide personalized, high-level legal assistance according to the needs and business of each client.
We have a senior team that specializes in assisting in-house counsel in their day-to-day activities, including complex financial products, in addition to advising on commercial, financial and capital market operations and foreign investments in Brazil and Brazilian capital abroad.
Juliana
Galante
JULIANA GALANTE is the founder of Galante Sociedade de Advogados. Throughout her career, Juliana has worked as a lawyer in law firms, multinational companies and investment banking, specialising in business, financial and banking law in the local and international markets.
Juliana began her career working as a trader in the Trade Structured Finance Department of Cargill Agrícola S.A. and followed working as lawyer in the banking, capital markets and finance law department of a full-service law firm. Juliana then worked as senior in-house lawyer in the Legal Department of Cargill Agrícola S.A. and in the Legal Department of Banco Itaú BBA S.A. After that Juliana worked in the Agricultural Investments Department of MetLife and joined boutique law firms as partner in charge of banking and finance areas.
In 2015, Juliana left her corporate in-house career to undertake the goal of founding her own boutique law firm, with personalized service and close to clients. She was a partner in boutique law firms focused on corporate clients, with the challenge of setting up the new financial and banking area in these firms and her own client portfolio, after having worked for many years as an in-house counsel.
Her successful trajectory led to the founding, in 2018, of GALANTE SOCIEDADE DE ADVOGADOS, where Juliana established her own brand on corporate legal world, representing financial institutions, investment funds, trading companies, agribusiness companies and the forestry sector in the areas of trade finance, commodities finance and agribusiness, banking, structured financing operations, formalization of guarantees, derivatives and debt restructuring.
Given her experience with commodities and trade finance and having worked in the international investment banking area for several years, Juliana expanded and consolidated the activities of GALANTE SOCIEDADE DE ADVOGADOS in advising foreign investors, with the best legal practices and strategic knowledge of the businesses of foreign clients, interested in the Brazilian financial and capital markets, and also to Brazilian clients in their investments abroad.
She holds a degree in Business Administration from the School of Business Administration of Fundação Getúlio Vargas de São Paulo – FGV/SP (1995) and in Law from the Law School of the University of São Paulo – USP (2000). She holds a Master’s Degree (LLM – Master of Laws) in Banking Law and Financial Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK (2004), and a postgraduate degree in Taxation, with specialization in Advanced Taxation of International Transactions, from the Law School of Universidade Católica Portuguesa – UCP, Lisbon (2025). Her training is complemented by courses in Tax Aspects of the International Mobility of Individuals (2024) and in Tax Regimes for Mobile Individuals and Private Wealth (2026), both from the Law School of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She is a lawyer registered with the Brazilian Bar Association – São Paulo Section and the Portuguese Bar Association – Lisbon Regional Council. Member of FALP – Federation of Portuguese Language Lawyers and UIA – Union Internationale des Avocats, being a member of the Foreign Investment Commission of FALP and member of the Foreign Investment Commission of UIA.
Fernanda Meyer Pereira
Fernanda Meyer Pereira is a lawyer at Galante Sociedade de Advogados, with more than 18 years of experience in business and financial law gained at a boutique law firm, a multinational company and investment banks.
She holds a law degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – PUC-SP (2008) and a postgraduate degree in Family Holding Companies and Succession Planning. She began her career at full-service law firms, working in litigation and at a multinational company, and was later part of legal teams at Banco HSBC Brasil and Banco Itaú BBA S.A. She currently focuses on contracts, financial transactions and the succession and wealth planning of business families.
She holds further specialization in tax reform, anti-money laundering and anti-corruption, artificial intelligence applied to law, and ESG, through courses at ESA/SP, UNODC, SEBRAE, ITS Rio, OAB/SP, Trybe and JusBrasil. She also works as a specialized translator of legal, financial and corporate documents, with a focus on contracts, banking documentation and regulatory materials.
