We advise clients across a wide range of industries on mergers and investigations into anti-competitive conduct before the Brazilian Antitrust Authority (CADE).
Our expertise includes strategic competition analysis, effectively preventing and mitigating risks during the structuring of contracts and commercial policies.
We represent companies under investigation, negotiate settlements and agreements with CADE, and assist in developing and implementing competition compliance programs.
With over 20 years of experience in arbitration, we have a proven track record of representing clients before leading national and international arbitration institutions.
Our attorneys are listed as arbitrators and mediators and hold leadership positions in dispute resolution centers in Brazil and abroad. We also support major international arbitration moot competitions.
We have extensive experience in estate planning, assisting families in implementing efficient succession, tax, and corporate strategies, including the necessary review and adjustment of their estate structure and/or family business.
Our goal is to deliver tangible results while ensuring the preservation and long-term sustainability of family wealth. We help families maximize savings, optimize operations, and adapt to legislative changes and evolving court rulings.
Our solutions are fully customized to the unique personal and financial circumstances of each family. Among the various legal tools available, we utilize those asset transfers, usufruct arrangements, life insurance, private pension plans, foundations, investment funds, shareholder or partnership agreements, holding companies, offshore entities, and trusts.
We have a highly specialized, multidisciplinary team with extensive experience and strong legal expertise in capital markets, securitization, and investment funds.
By developing innovative investment structures, our professionals play a key role in the structuring and implementation of sophisticated financial operations, including credit rights investment funds (FIDC), equity investment funds (FIP), real estate investment funds (FII), investment funds for agro-industrial production chains (FIAGRO), and financial investment funds (FIF)— such as multimarket funds (FIM) and equity funds (FIA), among others.
We also provide legal counsel on transactions involving public and private offerings of debentures, commercial notes, promissory notes (NPs), and bank credit notes (CCB), as well as securitization operations, primarily real estate receivables certificates (CRI), agribusiness receivables certificates (CRA), and receivables certificates (CR).
We design and implement compliance programs to help our clients conduct their business activities safely and operate in full compliance with ethical and regulatory standards. Our approach focuses on risk prevention while enhancing corporate reputation and, consequently, adding value to the goods and services they offer.
We believe that one of the key benefits of compliance is the prevention of illicit or unethical conduct, protecting companies from reputational damage. Moreover, fostering a culture of integrity elevates companies in the marketplace,strengthening their long-term sustainability and competitive edge.
We have a proven track record in defending domestic and international suppliers, particularly in the retail, telecommunications, financial, automotive, entertainment, construction products, shopping center, and real estate sectors.
Our experience includes handling dozens of high-value public civil actions, with a success rate exceeding 90%, as well as playing a key role in one of the largest collective mediations in the country.
We provide clients with dispute resolution intelligence, mapping lawsuits nationwide to identify critical risks and offer precise financial provisioning estimates.
Additionally, we assist in collective bargaining and designing self-resolution systems tailored to each business or situation, with a strong focus on litigation prevention.
Our practice focuses on drafting, negotiating, and providing comprehensive support across all aspects of contract structuring, risk management, and dispute resolution across various industry sectors.
We have a dedicated team specializing in heads of agreements, term sheets, preliminary contracts, and memoranda of understanding, as well as post-contract management, including amendments, terminations, and dispute resolution.
We provide both advisory and litigation services, representing corporate entities and individuals to safeguard fundamentalrights and legal protections, while also preserving our clients’ reputation.
Our advisory practice includes drafting legal opinions and preventive measures to mitigate the risk of criminal liability. In litigation, we represent clients at all procedural stages, including those under investigation, defendants, and victims.
We deliver tailored, highly confidential, and dedicated legal counsel, ensuring strategic, personalized solutions for each client.
We collaborate with other practice areas to conduct comprehensive governance assessments, covering both formal and substantive aspects, including the review, recommendation, and implementation of internal measures and mechanisms.
We also provide advisory services for IPOs, public offerings, business combinations, and other transactions in the financial and capital markets.
We take a specialized and multidisciplinary approach to Corporate Investigations, focusing on identifying irregularities within organizations, gathering accurate and reliable information, assessing risks, and implementing measures to protect the company’s interests.
Our collaborative methodology ensures the integrity and impartiality of the investigative process, prioritizing the collection of credible evidence for use in legal or administrative proceedings.
Additionally, we assist in drafting and reviewing internal policies, establishing clear and effective corporate investigation standards in alignment with best practices in governance and compliance.
Our crisis management practice leverages multidisciplinary and international expertise to provide strategic support during critical moments. We prioritize prevention, proactively identifying risks and developing mitigation plans to address potential issues before they escalate.
We have extensive experience handling digital crises, including cyber incidents and data breaches, and our team includes specialists in criminal risk management.
Our approach focuses on effective and discreet solutions that minimize impact, ensure legal certainty, and enhance corporate resilience in the face of adversity.
Pioneers in Digital Law and Data Protection, we safeguard companies operating in digital environments, particularly in response to the challenges posed by information technology. We specialize in crisis prevention and response, with a focus on cyber incidents.
We have led numerous data protection compliance projects, including those related to Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (LGPD), for multinational corporations and some of the country’s largest companies. Our team brings international expertise, with experience in the U.S., Italy, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Argentina.
We have over 60 years of experience handling legal disputes across all states of Brazil. We are recognized by clients and peers for our extensive track record in complex, high-stakes individual cases across various areas of substantive law. Our work is conducted in close collaboration with the firm’s diverse practice areas to ensure a comprehensive legal approach.
We handle class actions involving corporate, regulatory, telecommunications, financial, and construction matters, among others, with significant economic implications for our clients’ cases exceeding R$1 billion in value.
Our distinctive expertise lies in managing large-scale litigation involving multiple proceedings, providing strategic legal counsel to industry-leading companies.
We have extensive expertise in Collective Labor Law and Trade Union Relations. We advise both employers’ unions and companies on negotiating and signing collective bargaining agreements, as well as on resolving potential disputes between labor and management.
Our goal is to foster balanced labor relations in compliance with applicable legal frameworks. We focus on providing agile and effective solutions that minimize risks, reduce impacts, and ensure legal certainty for all parties involved.
We support our clients’ initiatives—particularly in key industry and agribusiness sectors—to minimize environmental impact and ensure regulatory compliance.
Our work includes preventive environmental consulting as well as representation in administrative and judicial proceedings, including environmental criminal cases.
We have strong technical and academic expertise, advising clients on all aspects of family law, including consulting and litigation. Our practice covers matters such as marriage (prenuptial agreements/divorce), civil unions (establishment/dissolution), child support, custody, parentage determination, trusteeship, and probate.
Our team has specialized expertise in family and succession matters related to business activities. We assist in drafting legal instruments to prevent and resolve disputes among partners and their heirs, helping to structure family governance and preserve family businesses. We also handle the division and settlement of shareholdings in cases of divorce or the death of a business partner.
Additionally, we collaborate with professionals in corporate and tax law to organize assets and structure effective succession plans.
We advise companies on identifying optimal legal, financial, and economic solutions for debt restructuring, as well as on out-ofcourt workouts, judicial reorganization, and bankruptcy proceedings across Brazil. We also represent and counsel investors in structuring transactions for the acquisition of assets and companies in distressed scenarios.
Our approach is highly integrated, working closely with professionals from various legal disciplines to support clients in turnaround processes, corporate restructuring, and stakeholder negotiations.
Our team is composed of specialized professionals dedicated to protecting creditors’ interests and maximizing credit recovery in judicial reorganization and bankruptcy cases. We provide asset tracing services for insolvent companies and implement judicial measures to preserve and recover outstanding credits.
We operate globally in the registration and protection of intangible assets, including trademarks, domain names, inventions, designs, software, know-how, and trade secrets, with a strong focus on digital media.
Our team is recognized for its pioneering approach and deep expertise in online protection of intangible assets, with professionals bringing over 20 years of international experience.
We have extensive expertise in advising on individual and collective labor contracts, both in judicial and administrative litigation, with a strong focus on liability prevention and risk mitigation. Our team has deep experience in collective bargaining and union relations.
We are recognized for our personalized approach, delivering agile, precise, and in-depth legal counsel. Even in high-volume disputes, our team remains committed to providing practical and straightforward solutions that drive measurable results for our clients.
We advise clients across a wide range of industries, including retail and wholesale trade, telemarketing, pulp and paper, metallurgy, steel, defense, ceramics, food and beverage, construction, telecommunications, and public utilities.
Our team includes seasoned professionals with in-depth knowledge of the daily operations of a legal department, allowing us to offer a tailored service for clients looking to delegate part of their legal activities to our firm.
In line with our “Beyond Law” approach, we engage in full immersion with our clients, gaining a deep understanding of their operations, teams, business environment, and the specific industry and regional context in which they operate.
We maintain long-term engagements for managing portfolios of judicial and administrative cases, ensuring ongoing coordination with external law firms. Our team has extensive experience in developing and implementing contingency strategies and financial provisioning policies.
On the consulting side, we assist clients in establishing secure workflows for submitting, reviewing, and approving corporate agreements. Additionally, we help implement new tools for process management and legal advisory services, optimizing efficiency and compliance.
We advise clients in domestic and international out-of-court mediations, focusing on conflict prevention and providing strategic guidance based on cost-benefit analysis, tailored to each client’s business needs. Our goal is to deliver fast, effective, and lasting solutions.
We are recognized for our proven track record of success across all levels of the judiciary, handling complex, high-stakes cases and judicial mediations, including participation in some of the largest collective mediations in Brazil.
With over 65 years of experience, we assist clients in structuring and executing all types of Merger & Acquisitions transactions (M&A) with efficiency, objectivity, and sophistication.
We have built a strong track record, having advised on numerous M&A transactions in Brazil, supporting both domestic and international companies throughout all phases of negotiations. Our expertise covers control transfers, joint venture formations, and private equity transactions, including tax and antitrust considerations related to corporate reorganizations and regulatory approvals from government authorities.
We develop customized and complementary conflict management and resolution frameworks, leveraging negotiation models, legal analytics (jurimetrics), and procedural strategy.
Our approach includes diagnostic assessments to identify the root causes of disputes, refine internal practices, and mitigate risks. By addressing the underlying sources of claims, we help clients reduce both direct and indirect costs while enhancing their reputation before the courts.
Our specialized teams handle complex negotiations and design systematic preventive strategies to manage and resolve disputes efficiently for our clients.
With decades of experience in Public Law, we provide integrated legal services on complex public law matters, including tenders, public contracts, PPPs, and cases before various agencies, including oversight bodies, in all spheres and in various industries.
We work on the different issues involved in the government’s relations with clients, both in advisory services and in conducting and resolving disputes in various types of administrative, judicial, and arbitration proceedings.
We also handle regulatory issues in various industries and activities, tackling complex and multidisciplinary issues and upholding the application of regulations in favor of our clients.
We have over 20 years of experience in rural, commercial, and residential real estate, including developments, financial investments, and corporate structuring.
Our team has a proven track record in real estate investment funds, agribusiness, property regularization, and due diligence for high-value transactions in the sector.
We have over 30 years of experience in tax planning and consulting.
We advise on strategic business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate restructurings, capital contributions, and financial and capital market operations, ensuring tax security and predictability. Our practice encompasses strategic tax management, as well as preventive and corrective guidance to ensure compliance with tax regulations.
In tax litigation, we develop tailored legal strategies, handling each case individually with legally sound arguments. Our approach combines rigorous legal analysis with direct, hands-on advocacy, ensuring effective representation before the courts.
We have extensive experience advising carriers, internet service providers, equipment manufacturers, and other key players in the telecommunications industry. Our services include telecommunications licensing, regulatory compliance (including due diligence in M&A transactions), competition matters, access to scarce resources, technical issues, and frequency spectrum auctions. Additionally, we provide defense in sanctioning proceedings before ANATEL.
We also have a proven track record in the audiovisual content industry, advising producers, studios, and media and technology companies on regulatory matters before ANCINE, including sectoral contributions and incentive projects for audiovisual productions.