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Volt Partners
Henrique Faria's São Paulo M&A boutique, founded 2010, uses Spontaneous Due Diligence to verify adjusted EBITDA before mandates reach market.
Volt Partners
Henrique Faria founded Volt Partners in 2010 alongside a group of senior M&A professionals whose collective experience exceeds 80 years. The firm operates as an independent boutique headquartered in São Paulo, built on the premise that lean structures protect confidentiality and eliminate the conflicts baked into larger advisory platforms. Senior advisors include Emil Seko, who runs a Japan Desk connecting Brazilian assets to cross-border buyers, and Ivo Martins alongside Adauto Sampaio, who anchor an agribusiness practice. Volt Partners advises on buyouts, growth capital, management buyouts, successions, restructurings, and secondary transactions. Its most distinctive operational feature is a Spontaneous Due Diligence product: before a client hires the firm, Volt runs a preliminary verification of adjusted EBITDA, net debt, and working capital, plus an early scan of tax and labor contingencies. The firm does not publicly name completed mandates but signals sector coverage that spans agribusiness, financial services, payments, healthcare, tourism, retail, and consumer-facing technology — backed by a senior-advisor bench with operator experience in each vertical. The partnership lists three named partners, five analysts and associates, and eight senior advisors — a team of 13 at the time of review. In a low-middle-market expansion, Volt Partners integrated the capital of DynaVolt, an investment-banking boutique led by Ricardo Bertucci that targets Brazilian companies with revenue between BRL 10 million and BRL 50 million. DynaVolt uses a structured origination engine that cross-references company data against more than 1,000 investment theses to generate an automated attractiveness score and pre-matched buyer lists, a quantitative layer that Volt’s traditional M&A practice previously lacked. Volt’s architecture separates it from bulge-bracket M&A desks: the firm insists that the partners who originate a transaction execute it themselves, without handing the mandate to a junior team. That model constrains the number of concurrent engagements but aligns incentives with client outcomes. The layering of DynaVolt underneath the core partnership creates a two-tier structure — high-touch advisory for mid-market mandates and a higher-volume, tech-screened origination funnel for the low middle market — a shape unusual among independent Brazilian boutiques.
General information
Firm type
Private Equity
Year founded
2010
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Latin America
Country
Brazil
City
São Paulo
Corporate office
Rua Casa do Ator, 1117, Conj. 144, 04546-004, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Principals
Henrique Faria
Sócio-fundador
Jairo Ohno
Sócio
Kaique Ortega
Sócio
Ivo Martins
Senior Advisor - Agronegócio
Marcelo Giufrida
Senior Advisor – Serviços Financeiros
Emil Seko
Senior Advisor - Japan Desk
Adauto Sampaio
Senior Advisor - Agronegócio
Francisco da Rocha Campos
Senior Advisor – Serviços Financeiros, Pagamentos, Turismo e Varejo
João Alceu Amoroso Lima
Senior Advisor – Saúde
Fábio Silveira
Senior Advisor – Macroeconomia
Roberto Carlos Oliveira
Senior Advisor - Agribusiness
Ricardo Bertucci
Sócio DynaVolt
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Volt Partners?
Founding partner Henrique Faria leads the firm alongside partners Jairo Ohno and Kaique Ortega. The partnership states that every transaction is conducted directly by the partners, not delegated to junior staff. This structure centralizes decision-making authority in a three-person partner group.
Does Volt Partners operate as a private equity fund or an M&A advisory firm?
Volt Partners is an M&A advisory boutique, not a pooled investment vehicle. It advises on transactions — buyouts, growth equity, successions, restructurings, and secondaries — on behalf of clients but does not appear to invest proprietary capital directly into the companies it represents.
What is Volt Partners' Spontaneous Due Diligence?
Spontaneous Due Diligence is a pre-mandate service where Volt independently verifies a potential client's adjusted EBITDA, preliminary net debt, adjusted working capital, and identifies early tax and labor-contingency risks. The firm performs this analysis before a company formally engages Volt, providing an independent baseline that can surface deal-stopping issues early.
What is DynaVolt and how does it relate to Volt Partners?
DynaVolt is a low-middle-market investment banking boutique that Volt Partners integrated into its structure. Led by partner Ricardo Bertucci, DynaVolt targets Brazilian companies with revenue between BRL 10 million and BRL 50 million, using an AI-driven origination platform that matches company data against over 1,000 investment theses to generate automated buyer matches. Volt Partners now channels its lower-middle-market deal flow through DynaVolt.
Which sectors does Volt Partners explicitly cover?
The firm's published sector coverage includes agribusiness, financial services, payments, healthcare, tourism, retail, consumer goods, and technology. Its senior advisor bench — including specialists in agribusiness (Ivo Martins, Adauto Sampaio, Roberto Carlos Oliveira), financial services (Marcelo Giufrida, Francisco da Rocha Campos), and healthcare (João Alceu Amoroso Lima) — maps directly to these verticals. The Japan Desk, run by Emil Seko, adds cross-border capability for Japanese buyers of Brazilian assets.
Does Volt Partners participate in fund commitments or only direct advisory mandates?
Volt Partners does not disclose making fund commitments or managing pooled capital. Its publicly described activities are entirely advisory — executing M&A transactions for corporate clients. The firm's website and Altss research record contain no reference to a fund-of-funds program or balance-sheet co-investment vehicle.
Where does Volt Partners' team experience originate?
The firm states that its partners previously held partner-level and director roles at other M&A advisory firms, collectively accumulating more than 80 years of M&A experience. The firm does not name the predecessor institutions, but the senior advisor group includes operators with direct industry experience in the sectors Volt covers rather than only career bankers.
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