About Us
The Company
Kuará Capital was idealized to be an asset managed company specialized in alternative investments by partners with over 20 years of experience in the financial markets, and a strategic legal body. The result is that we differentiate from other companies on our business origination, legal analysis, portfolio construction and risk mitigation.
Our focus is investing in legal claims, distressed assets and “Special Situations” thesis in general. These asset classes, besides being of 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.
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.
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.
Worked at Unibanco and Deutsche Bank, where he was the director responsible for both local and offshore proprietary fixed income treasury desks.
Isabela Meneguelo
Ações Judiciais
Advogada formada pela Faculdade de Campinas (FACAMP), especializada em Direito Processual Civil pela Escola Paulista de Direito (EPD), e com LL.M. em Direito Empresarial pela Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV).
Possui experiência em Direito Bancário e Insolvência, tendo atuado em escritórios de advocacia e administração judicial. Ingressou no mercado financeiro em 2023 prestando assessoria especializada para aquisição de Ativos Judiciais.
Inscrita na Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil.
Gabrielly Matos
Precatórios
Bacharel em Direito em Direito pela Faculdade de Guarulhos (FIG) com Pós-Graduação em Direito Tributário pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP).
Possui mais de 5 anos de experiência na Análise e Gestão de Precatórios, tendo passado por empresas tais como Atlanta Precatórios e D. Andrade.
Inscrita na Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil.
Josué Miranda
Risco e Compliance
Bacharel em Ciências & Humanidades e Formando em Ciências Econômicas pela Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC).
Ingressou no mercado financeiro em 2014, tendo atuado em instituições tais como: BNP Paribas, Genial Investimentos e Itaú Unibanco, sendo nesta última reconhecido pelo seu alto desempenho na atuação em Prevenção à Lavagem de Dinheiro.
Kaue Caponero Figueiredo
Middle Office
Engenheiro Civil e Formando em Análise e Desenvolvimento de Sistemas pela Faculdade de Informática e Administração Paulista (FIAP)
Atua no mercado financeiro com foco em crédito desde 2016, tendo passado por empresas como Federal Invest e Stanley’s Holding (Controladoria).
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).
