"[11] After graduating from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, André Esteves joined Pactual and within "a year he was a member of the bank's foreign debt trading team, and within two he was managing IPOs and M&A deals.

[10] UBS purchased Pactual in December 2006,[10] and in June 2008, Esteves left the bank along with key Brazilian partners[14] to create BTG, a global investment company.

In April 2020, Esteves and other partners of BTG Pactual announced a donation of 50 million Brazilian reais for COVID-19 pandemic combat projects in Brazil.

He is a board member at Conservation International[19] and played an active role supporting the Amazonia Live program, a project to plant one million trees,[20] in partnership with one of the biggest music festivals of the world, Rock in Rio.

[21] He is part of the 5P Alliance,[22] a group of entrepreneurs, bankers, and doctors who are working on their own to ensure the conservation of the Pantanal biome by acquiring farms in the region to preserve them.

André Esteves is the owner of Fazenda Rio Negro, which in 2001 was granted the title of Private Natural Heritage Reserve (RPPN) by the government of Mato Grosso do Sul for having several endangered species such as the giant otter, the marsh deer, and the hyacinth macaw.

"[44][45] Italy's Consob did this because, they said, that "the 43-year-old Latin American banker bought the shares in November 2007 knowing that the group was planning to enter a joint venture with Brazilian rival JBS.

[52] CEO of BTG Pactual André Esteves, and member of the board of directors Huw Jenkins reportedly "made fraudulent misrepresentations to get Zeljko Ivic to sign agreements with Banco BTG Pactual SA, according to a lawsuit filed with the Hong Kong High Court.

While in detention, Odebrecht attempted to pass a handwritten note to his lawyers mentioning André Esteves, implicating BTG Pactual and him in Lava Jato.

[60][61][62] Sete Brasil had seven investors, the pension funds: Petros, Previ, Funcef and Valia, besides the banks Santander, Bradesco and BTG Pactual, and the state oil company Petrobras.

[63] In the first quarter of 2015, BTG Pactual recorded a provision for the impairment to the investment equivalent to approximately 25% of its book value, which had a gross negative impact on revenues of R$280 million.

Judge Teori Zavascki ruled that Esteves could not have any management role in any of the companies being investigated as part of the corruption probe.

Brazil's high court lifted that order, and Esteves's lawyer, Antonio Carlos de Almeida Castro, said by text message that the billionaire is free of all charges and can return to the office.

"André was improperly involved in this process, the instruction proved this completely," said Antônio Carlos de Almeida Castro, Esteves's lawyer, on the request for acquittal.

[73][74] On July 12, 2018, Judge Ricardo Leite of the 10th Federal Court of Brasilia acquitted Esteves of the accusations of obstruction of justice for confirmation that there was insufficient evidence to corroborate the allegations.