Areas of Expertise

Investments in the acquisition of companies, real estate and other assets of significant value must undergo thorough analysis of the risks involved for investors. Likewise, the seller also takes risks. Therefore, in deals of this kind, we help you understand the risks involved, seeking alternatives and utilizing all legal instruments to reduce them, always aiming at the greatest possible legal security for both buyer and seller.

In partnership with an accredited audit firm, and depending on the need, in case of corporate acquisitions, due diligence may be developed, with incursion in the areas of accounting, tax, and financial law, among others, aiming at better assessing the risks and the best way to structure the transaction.

In real estate transactions, we also seek to measure the risks involved, recommending the collection of all necessary documents to thoroughly analyze them and, once the feasibility is certain, we elaborate on the necessary contracts to close the deal.

We promote lawsuits to prevent, protect and ensure the rights of our customers, whether they are  individual or legal entities, and we act in response to any actions, in all administrative and judicial instances, including oral statements, whenever recommended. But, before any judicial measure, we set a strategy in accordance with our client’s best interests.

Our expertise allows us to act on causes of high complexity in virtually all areas of law, especially those arising from business practice. We also operate in arbitration procedures, with professionals ready to represent our clients in various boards of arbitration.

We draw up different types of contracts, such as civil and commercial contracts, with guidance for the management, control and execution of said contracts. Our work may involve participation in the negotiations, analysis of specific contractual clauses, issuance of legal opinion on contracts and contractual clauses, constitution of companies, processing contracts, incorporation, merging, split-ups, extinction of companies and preparation of termination contracts.

When it comes to Family and Succession Law, our main objective is, above all, to serve as consultants, seeking, whenever possible, friendly solutions. Founded in that spirit, we have developed legal instruments in order to avoid conflicts, such as asset planning and succession, providing our clients with prenuptial and cohabitation agreements, wills and asset sharing agreements in life. We also help in any actions in this area (including inventory and partition of succession) that are necessary for the protection of our clients and their families.

We assist our clients in Economic Law, including defense in investigations of anti-competitive practices before the Administrative Council of Economic Defense (CADE), in matters that, among others, involve the formation of cartels, abuse of dominant position and concentration acts.

We recommend and guide the adoption of compliance and training programs for its implementation. We understand that compliance assists the company in identifying risks, prevention and remediation of contingent liabilities, and we adopt a global vision by which compliance goes beyond prevention against of corruption and other crimes involving corporate governance, antitrust, environmental risks, labor and tax laws, among others.

In the Corporate Criminal Law area we defend our customers in police inquests and criminal proceedings arising from tax evasion charges, fiscal evasion, money laundering, financial crimes against the environment, and occupational accidents, among others.

We also act in the defense of clients who are victims of corporate fraud committed by third parties or employees, with the adoption of legal measures applicable in the police and judicial scope for the punishment of those responsible and reimbursement of losses.

Our expertise covers all types of companies, notably the joint-stock companies and limited liability companies, with expertise in corporate matters, preparation of papers important to partners or shareholders, such as bylaws, social contracts, corporate amendments – including incorporations, mergers and split-ups, shareholders’ and quotaholders’ agreements, minutes, participation in general meetings and in member’s meetings.

Alongside our advisory services, we operate in corporate disputes, such as cases of exclusion of shareholders, dissolution of a company, determination of assets and other related services.

We provide a large array of services, including: preventative legal advice, evaluation and correction of internal labor procedures of companies, analysis and preparation of documents, training, issuing legal opinions, conflict management with employees and unions, full action in litigation to promote legal actions, defenses and appeals in administrative and judicial proceedings before the Ministry of Labor and Employment, the Public Labor Ministry, the National Institute of Social Security and Labor Justice in all instances, including the Superior Labor Court (TST).

We defend our clients in cases of notice of infraction, advocating in administrative processes with thesis development that possibly aid in challenging the requirement of taxes and charges that prove undue, also promoting legal actions to deconstitute or avoid the collection of undue taxes.

We provide our clients services such as briefs and oral defense before the administrative courts of the federation, such as the Administrative Council of Tax Appeals (CARF), the Tax Court (TIT) and the Board of Tax Appeals (Municipal Administrative Court).

With the help of a multidisciplinary team, we develop tax planning, backed by studies, aiming to reduce the tax burden of our customers, while also providing the analysis of each situation, reducing risks in accordance with tax law.

We promote the legal actions necessary to receive credits and other rights in favor of our clients, such as extrajudicial execution action, bankruptcy petition of the business debtor, monitorial action, search and seizure action and any other applicable legal measures, including acting in processes involving factoring.

We have recognized experience in judicial recovery and bankruptcy, representing both creditors and debtors.  In relation to the debtor, taking into consideration possible economic crisis, we evaluate the possibility of filing Judicial Recovery in order to overcome the difficulties of the company, outlining the strategy to be developed even before the beginning of the process, with an analysis of the risk exposure of the shareholders’ and partners’ equity. With recommendations to comply with the legal requirements established by law, and, once the action is filed, we participate, with a multidisciplinary team, in the elaboration of the Recovery Plan, in the negotiation with creditors, in the representation in the meeting and in the judicial discussion of the values ​​of the obligations covered. We also act as legal counselors of judicial administrators in judicial recovery and bankruptcy procedures.

We also work in the planning and implementation of administrative and judicial actions for the administration of liabilities arising from labor, tax and commercial debts, including those arising from bank contracts, with definition of strategy and presentation of defenses that seek to challenge and reduce amounts collected, such as fines, illegal capitalization of interest and other moratorium charges demanded by creditors, also evaluating the possibility and the convenience of filing Judicial or Extrajudicial Recovery of the company.