About Us
An independent financial advisory firm, One Partners provides its institutional clients a broad range of financial advisory services, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, financial restructuring, and advisory services for public and private offerings.
With an experienced and market-rounded team, we advise clients on several types of transactions, focused on establishing relationships based on confidentiality and independence, with the direct involvement of our senior team in every stage of the process and the absence of conflicts of interest.
With these attributes, we provide world-class customized solutions, consistent with our reputation for providing independent, high-quality strategic advice to our clients.
Partners
Bernardo Parnes
CEO and Founding Partner
Bernardo has more than 40 years of experience in the financial market, having led renowned national and foreign financial institutions throughout his career. Before founding One Partners, he was CEO for Latin America at Deutsche Bank and Chief Country Officer for Brazil. Prior to that experience, he was president of Banco Bradesco BBI and JSI Investimentos, the Safra family’s family office. In addition, Bernardo was President of Merrill Lynch in Brazil for over 10 years and began his career at Citibank, where he worked for 7 years. Bernardo has a degree in Business and Administration from Fundação Álvares Penteado (FAAP) and in Law from Universidade de São Paulo (USP), with a post-graduate degree in Economics and Finance from Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).
Luis Castilho
Partner
With more than 12 years of experience in Investment Banking and having been part of the team since One Partners was founded in 2016, Luis has participated in several mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, debt and equity issues throughout his career. Before joining One Partners, he worked for 5 years in Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in São Paulo. Luis has a degree in Business Administration from FGV-EAESP.
Pedro Stevaux
Partner
Pedro Stevaux has over 15 years of experience in Investment Banking and is responsible for originating and executing transactions at One Partners. Prior to joining One Partners, Pedro was a partner at STS GAEA, responsible for the Private Equity area, where he advised Samambaia FIA on the acquisition of 20% of Light S.A. in partnership with LTS Investimentos, having previously advised Grupo Libra on the sale of assets and negotiation for the restructuring of its debt. He was part of Lazard’s and Deutsche Bank team, where he executed major M&A transactions. Pedro has a degree in Business Administration from FGV-EAESP.
Alex Coube
Partner
Alex Coube has over 10 years of experience in Investment Banking and is responsible for originating and executing M&A transactions at One Partners. In addition to One Partners, Alex served as Director of Strategic Finance at Open Co, leading the M&A, structured debt and IR. He also worked in Debt Capital Markets at BTG Pactual and in Investment Bank at Bank of America Merril Lynch. Throughout his career, he has advised on over R$15 billion in M&A and debt transactions. Alex graduated in Business Administration from FGV-EAESP.
Renato Polizzi
Partner
Renato Polizzi has over 25 years of experience in Investment Banking. Began his career in Investment Banking in 1999, at UBS, with a focus on Latam transactions, where he remained for 6 years executing mainly IPOs and follow-ons. Joined Itaú BBA in 2005 and remained there until 2011, covering the healthcare, logistics/transportation, O&G, real estate and infrastructure sectors, and participated in 29 IPOs and stock offering, as well as several M&A transactions. From 2011 to 2015, de was Managing Director of Investment Banking at Citi in Brazil, where he covered the O&G, infrastructure and industrials sector, and was responsible for the origination and coordination of several M&A and capital markets transactions. He was partner and head of Investment Banking at Banco Modal from 2015 to 2020, where he organized the division’s hedging strategy, originating and executing M&A transactions, and created the bank’s DCM department in 2019. Renato graduated in Public Administrations from FGV-EAESP as #1 of the class of 1998.
Transactions
2024
Sales of the controlling stake (51%) of LT Bandeirantes to Eletrobras
Undisclosed
2024
Partial acquisition of the client portfolio of 2W Ecobank
Undisclosed
2024
Exclusive advisor to GAtec’s shareholders on the company sale to Senior
R$ 49.8 million + earnout
2024
Exclusive advisor to Witzler in the disposal of control and strategic association with Ultragaz
R$ 150 million
2024
Fundraising advisor to Raiar Orgânicos
Undisclosed
2023
Advisor to Elise Agro in the debt restructuring process
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2023
Advisor to MTPar in the financial restructuring and acquisition of Concessionária Rota do Oeste
R$ 1.1 billion
2022
Advisor to Captaly in the sale of control of Finvest DTVM to REAG Investimentos
Undisclosed
2022
Advisor to Alpargatas on the sale of its stake in Osklen to DASS Group
R$ 400 million
2021
Advisor to HeringerPar at the disposal of control to Eurochem
R$ 2.6 billion
2021
Advisor to Ultrapar on the sale of its 50% stake in ConectCar to Porto Seguro
R$ 165 million
2021
Advisor to OTP on the execution of a valuation report of Rota do Oeste
Undisclosed
2021
Advisor on the acquisition of a production plant and product portfolio from Bayer
Undisclosed
2020
Advisor to Embraer on the acquisition of Tempest’s control
Undisclosed
2020
Advisor to Qualicorp founder on the sale of shares through a block trade
Undisclosed
2019
Advisor to Itaúsa in the winning consortium on the acquisition of Liquigás
R$ 4.0 billion
2019
Advisor to Qualicorp founder on the sale of his shares to Rede D’Or
Undisclosed
2018
Advisor to União Química on the acquisition of rbST business from Elanco/Eli Lilly
Undisclosed
2017
Advisor to União Química on the acquisition of a production facility from Zoetis
Undisclosed
2017
Advisor to Smiles on the reverse merger with Webjet
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2017
Advisor to Uisa on its financial restructuring