Victoria Vaccari Villela Boacnin

Profile

Victoria Villela Boacnin has extensive experience in Insolvency and Restructuring of companies (private debt restructuring, mediation, and insolvency processes), transactions and agreements involving companies with a high level of debt.
Recognized by The Legal 500 as Rising Star of the Year in 2024, Victoria has outstanding experience in capital markets debt restructuring, having actively participated in several of the most relevant cases in the country.
Victoria advises Brazilian and foreign clients, having represented creditors, investors and debtors in private and judicial restructurings, with experience in litigation and advisory work.
Victoria also has experience in complex legal matters, having represented clients before state and federal courts and in arbitration and mediation forums.
Since 2020, she has been a member of the Working Group on Good Practices in Judicial Recovery and Bankruptcy of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), which in 2022 became the National Forum for Business Recovery and Bankruptcy – FONAREF.

Professional Associations

•  Member of the National Forum for Business Recovery and Bankruptcy of the National Council of Justice (CNJ)
•  Member of TMA – Turnaround Management Association
•  Member of IASP – Permanent Commission for Studies on Bankruptcy and Recovery Law
•  Member of CMR – Center for Women in Business Restructuring
•  Member of IWIRC – International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation
•  Admitted to the São Paulo branch of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP).

Education

• Member of the Group for Advanced Studies on the Reform of the Bankruptcy and Reorganization Law at Fundação Arcadas – FDUSP – 2021
• LL.B., PUC-SP – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Publications

• BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela; FELSBERG, Thomas Benes. Recuperação Judicial e Recuperação Extrajudicial: Gênero e Espécie. In BIOLCHI, Juliana; DE MELO, Alexandre Correa Nasser. A Nova Recuperação Extrajudicial – Análise e Configurações da Doutrina e Prática nos Tribunais. Curitiba: Editora Juruá, 2024. p. 41.
• BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela; FELSBERG, Thomas Benes. OPINIÃO: A fraude na recuperação judicial de ‘empresas de dono’. Disponível em https://braziljournal.com/opiniao-a-fraude-na-recuperacao-judicial-de-empresas-de-dono/
• BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela; FELSBERG, Thomas Benes. A modernização da legislação de insolvência. In Liber Amicorum Modesto Carvalhosa. No prelo.
• BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela. Aspectos relevantes e aplicação do plano de recuperação judicial alternativo. In SATIRO, Francisco; MUNHOZ, Eduardo Secchi; CEREZETTI, Sheila C. Neder (coords.) et al. Estudos Sobre a Reforma da Lei 11.101/2005. Belo Horizonte: Editora Expert, 2022. p. 321.
• BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela; FELSBERG, Thomas Benes. Comentários aos Artigos 26 a 34. In TOLEDO, Paulo Fernando Campos Salles de et. al. Comentário à Lei de Recuperação de Empresas / Paulo Fernando Campos Salles de Toledo, coordenador. – São Paulo : Thomson Reuters. Brasil, 2021. p. 195.
• ÁVILA, Henrique; BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela. Plano de Recuperação Judicial – Primeiros Comentários ao Plano Alternativo e Outras Alterações Relevantes Introduzidas pela Lei nº 14.112/2020. In VASCONCELOS, Ronaldo et. al. (Coord.). Reforma da Lei de Recuperação Judicial e Falência – Lei 14.112/2020 / coordenação de Ronaldo Vasconcellos, Gabriel José de Orleans e Bragança, Thais D’Angelo da Silva Hanesaka e Thomaz Luiz Sant’Ana. — São Paulo : Editora IASP. Brasil, 2021. p. 671.
• BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela; MACHADO, Liv; SATO, Juliana Fukusima. Free and clear – requisitos e vantagens da aquisição de bens via UPI no âmbito da recuperação judicial. In ALTOMANI, Mariana Gonçalves et. al. Reestruturação empresarial: discussões práticas sobre recuperação judicial e falência./ coordenação de Mariana Gonçalves Altomani; organização de Juliana Della Valle Biolchi. – Curitiba : Editora Juruá. Brasil, 2021. p. 187.
• BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela; FELSBERG, Thomas Benes. A cultura do litígio na recuperação judicial e a sua superação. Disponível em https://www.migalhas.com.br/coluna/migalhas-consensuais/373914/a-cultura-do-litigio-na-recuperacao-judicial-e-a-sua-superacao
• BOACNIN, Victoria Vaccari Villela. Recomendação CNJ orienta magistrados e flexibiliza Lei 11.101/05 no período da pandemia de covid-19. Disponível em https://www.migalhas.com.br/quentes/323218/cnj-edita-recomendacao-para-mitigar-impactos-da-pandemia-nas-recuperacoes-judiciais.

Lectures and Courses

Participation as a speaker, mediator or guest teacher in several specialized events in the insolvency area, the most recent of which:

“Perspectivas do PL 03/2024”. Panel organized by Fundação Arcadas together with National Forum of Business Jurisdiction Judges (FONAJEM) and National Business Recovery and Bankruptcy Forum (FONAREF) of the National Council of Justice (CNJ). Speakers: Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva, Dr. João Oliveira, Flávio Pansieri, Eduardo Munhoz and Victoria Villela Boacnin (23.08.2024).

“Recuperação Extrajudicial e os Créditos Trabalhistas”. Panel at the seminar Questões Contemporâneas do Direito Falimentar e Recuperacional de Empresas, organized by the  Superior Labor Court (TST) together with National Business Recovery and Bankruptcy Forum (FONAREF). Speakers: Ministro Amaury Rodrigues Pinto Júnior, Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva and Victoria Villela Boacnin (15.05.2024).

“O crédito público e os processos de insolvência”. Panel at the Second Congress of the National Business Recovery and Bankruptcy Forum (Fonaref). Speakers: Ministro Moura Ribeiro (STJ), Ministro Gurgel de Faria (STJ), Filipe Aguiar (PGFN) and Victoria Vaccari Villela Boacnin (09.05.2024).

“Estratégias de Negociação pelo Devedor”. Class as a guest professor at the Escola de Magistratura do Panará. Professors: Ivo Waisberg and Victoria Vaccari Villela Boacnin (08.04.2024).

“Evento de lançamento do Manual Prático de Mediação Empresarial na Recuperação Judicial, Extrajudicial e Falência”. Panel organized by the Bankruptcy and Judicial Recovery and Mediation Commissions of OAB/RJ. Speakers: Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva; Juliana Bumachar and Victoria Vaccari Villela Boacnin (07.11.2023).

“Mediação Preventiva nos Processos de Insolvência – Experiências Práticas”. Panel organized by the  Mediation, Negotiation and Collaborative Practices Committee and Bankruptcy Law Committee of IASP. Panelists: Luiz Fernando Valente de Paiva; Gilberto Gornati and Victoria Vaccari Villela Boacnin, moderated by Alessandra Fachada Bonilha (26.10.2023).

“Distressed M&A e Special Situations”. Panela t the Second Congress of CMR – Center for Women in Business Restructuring. Speakers: André Pimentel, Tatiana Flores, Camila Serrano, Professor Edson Isfer and Victoria Vaccari Villela Boacnin (05.07.2023).

“Plano Alternativo de credores e direito de voto”. Presentation at the Meeting of the Corporate Insolvency Committee of CESA – Center for Law Firm Studies, region of Minas Gerais. Speakers: Henrique Barbosa, Marcos Augusto Leonardo Ribeiro and Victoria Vaccari Villela Boacnin (25.05.2023).

“Quart@ Online TMA – Enunciados FONAREF”. Panel organized by TMA Brasil about the statements approved at the last Congress of the National Forum for Business Recovery and Bankruptcy – FONAREF, of the National Council of Justice (CNJ). Panelists: Exma. Dra. Giovanna Farenzena; Exmo. Dr. Moacyr Lobato; Sandra Bayer, moderated by Victoria Vaccari Villela Boacnin (29.03.2023).