About Us
The Company
Kuará Capital was designed to be an asset management company specialized in alternative investments, founded by partners with over 20 years of experience in the financial markets, and supported by a strategic legal body. As a result, we differentiate ourselves from other players through our unique business origination practice, with robust legal analysis, portfolio construction and risk mitigation.
Our focus is on investing in legal claims, distressed assets and “Special Situations” theses in general. These asset classes, besides having high profit potential, have low correlation with traditional financial products, and are therefore an important piece of diversification for a medium to long-term investment portfolio.
We nurture a culture of transparency and clear communication with our clients, aligning interests in all dimensions of our business through a partnership model, both at the company and funds’ level. It is also our goal to promote the development of markets we act in, contributing to the regulatory environment through innovation of processes and technology deployment.
Structured Investment Process
Understand the main steps in our asset analysis and selection workflow
Screening
Our investment’s team maps main risk and influence factors and does a preliminary analysis on the observance of our asset eligibility criteria, adherence to funds’ investment policies, and minimum levels of profits that justify proceeding with the analysis.
Due-Diligence
With both investment, legal and risk teams aligned, we conduct a deepened investigation on the asset history, its related parties, liabilities, and further relevant elements.
External Analysis
To confront our ideas and assumptions, a legal opinion or valuation report by a specialized third-party is hired, in which we validate and reinforce our due-diligence conclusions in an independent manner.
Eligibility
Pricing exercises are conducted and the deliberation to approve the targeted asset is done in a structure of committees, which rely on the participation of all non-commercial team heads and legal advisors.
Asset Research Criteria
Get to know our asset eligibility criteria, which serve as basis for our initial screening, and are revalidated throughout the due-diligence and external analysis steps.
1. Fundamentals
We search for investment opportunities with a valid rationale that sustain the existence of value, and preservation of principal invested capital.
2. Measurement
Which should have pricing elements that allow for objective modelling, or that define a minimum financial value, established prior to the investment.
3. Yield
Assets must have characteristics that tend to make them appreciate overtime, not losing value regardless of their liquidation time horizon.
4. Horizon
But, regardless of yield, a liquidation timeframe has to be possible to estimate, in line and adherence to the funds’ investment policies.
5. Legal Certainty
Operation structures need to make it possible for us to assure assets’ property, exercise, and defense, of all their associated rights.
6. Fungibility
And that in those structures, liquidity events are paid, and effectively received, by the funds.
Our Team
A team focused on successful investments
Rodrigo Santoro de Castro
Investments Director
Economist by the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), having worked in institutions such as Unibanco, Standard Chartered and Fibra Bank.
Rodrigo has spent over 20 years managing Rates and FX, Company Turnovers and Credit Structuring.
Manuel S. Duarte de Oliveira
Risk and Compliance Director
Economist by the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP), having working in institutions such as BNP Paribas and Compass Group.
Manuel has 10 years of experience in Funds’ Structuring, Risk Management and Systems Development.
Cláudio Holanda
Chief Investment Officer
Economist by the University of Brasília (UnB) with over 25 years of experience in financial markets.
Claudio worked at Unibanco and Deutsche Bank, where he was the director responsible for both local and offshore proprietary fixed income treasury desks.
Isabela Meneguelo
Legal Claims
Lawyer graduated from Faculdade de Campinas (FACAMP), specialized in Civil Procedural Law from Escola Paulista de Direito (EPD), and with an LL.M. in Business Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).
Isabela has experience in Banking Law and Insolvency, having worked in law firms and judicial administration. She entered the financial market in 2023, providing specialized advisory services for the acquisition of Judicial Assets.
Registered at the Order of Attorneys in Brazil (OAB) - Brazilian Bar Association.
Gabrielly Matos
Precatórios
Bachelor of Law from Faculdade de Guarulhos (FIG) with a Postgraduate degree in Tax Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP).
Gabrielly has over 5 years of experience in the Analysis and Management of Precatórios, having worked at companies such as Atlanta Precatórios and D. Andrade.
Registered at the Order of Attorneys in Brazil (OAB) - Brazilian Bar Association.
Kaue Caponero Figueiredo
Middle Office
Civil Engineer and graduate in Systems Analysis and Development from Faculdade de Informática e Administração Paulista (FIAP).
Kaue has built his career in the financial markets with a focus on credit since 2016, having worked at companies such as Federal Invest and Stanley’s Holding (Controller's Office).
Legal Advisor
We have close and direct monitoring of our investments by a law firm well-recognized in our strategies and asset classes – FASV Advogados. Operating since 1999, the firm counts with over 40 collaborators and partnerships in Brazil, and abroad.
The professionals at FASV Advogados are specialized in legal assets, tax, insolvency, and strategic litigation, being recognized for their wide experience in advising different investor profiles, including investment funds and large financial institutions.
Over the last 10 years the firm acted in all segments of credit rights related to legal claims, having advised dozens of operations involving investments above 15 billion BRL, and hundreds of middle market operations (up to 100 million BRL).
