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In relation to the litigation matters brought by our clients, the Firm acts both in the strategic litigation and in the effective conduct of litigations and arbitration procedures. We actively participate in judicial and extrajudicial negotiations, always seeking the best benefits to our clients. Our civil litigation team is composed of professionals with a solid academic formation and extensive experience in all court spheres, including the superior tribunals and national and international arbitration tribunals.
The Firm’s litigation area represents our clients with claims related to civil law, corporate disputes, contractual conflicts, consumer rights, real estate, among other matters involving our clients’ businesses.
Our lawyers work on a different way, understanding the problem, creating strategies and presenting the best solutions. During the conduct of the claim, either judicial or extrajudicial, the entire procedure is discussed with the client and closely accompanied by the involved professionals.
We act with national and foreign companies, acting in all sorts of corporate transactions, including incorporation of the companies, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and purchase and sale transactions involving companies, assets and/or equity interests.
In the last two decades we have been assisting listed companies, closely held companies, financial institutions, family companies, investment funds, startups and concessionaries of public services. Our experience allows us to work with clients from several sectors such as pharmaceutical, energy, agrobusiness, plastic, hotels, leisure and entertainment, services and food sector.
Our work comprises since the simplest daily corporate matters, including drafting of documents, participation in meetings and general meetings, defense of shareholders interest, succession planning, until the conduct of complex procedures involving corporate reorganization, investment, due diligence, and the negotiation and implementation of mergers and acquisitions transactions.
The Firm acts on an intensive way in the drafting, review, negotiation and management of commercial agreements involving parties from several countries. Together with partner international law firms, we also help our Brazilian clients in the negotiation of contracts with foreign companies and which shall be governed by foreign laws.
Within the different types of contracts asked by our clients, we may highlight the several sorts of services agreements, commercial partnership, technology transfer, real estate leasing, supply agreements, partnership for product development, including those deriving from Research and Development Programs, agency agreements, distribution, turn-key, transportation, commercial leasing, hosting, image use right, software licensing and concession for trading of motor vehicles.
Our labor area with its skillful lawyers assists our clients with consulting matters, as well as with administrative claims and litigation.
Within the consulting sphere our work includes the drafting of employment agreements, analysis of labor contingencies, review of bargaining agreements, drafting of variable remuneration policy, assistance in the hiring of executives and the conduct of due diligence in M&A transactions.
In the litigation sphere we act administratively and judicially, representing our clients’ interest before the Labor Prosecutor Office, Labor Ministry, Class Bodies, in all grounds of jurisdiction up to the superior tribunals.
In the tax area, also including customs law and social security matters, we assist our clients in all their needs. We render legal advice related to taxes in general, preparation of tax planning, international taxation, taxation in the capital market and in the financial market, in addition to the conduct of due diligence in M&A transactions.
Our practice is also present in tax litigation related to administrative and judicial claims, whether in the federal, state or municipal spheres, conducting lawsuits before all courts, including the superior tribunals.
With the evolution of the agrobusiness in Brazil calling the attention of companies of different countries, the Firm also started to assist clients interested in such economic sector.
The agrobusiness team, many times together with the real estate team, advises our clients with matters that, among other themes, involve the acquisition of rural properties, partnership projects for sustainable plantation, supply agreements, sale and purchase of forestry assets, investments in family sustainable productions, import and export of inputs and products and agreements for the organization of agrobusiness fairs and events.
The Firm has an outstanding performance in the real estate area, advising our clients in deals involving the acquisition and sale of urban and rural properties, conducting due diligence on the involved parties and the involved asset. Our legal assistance also encompasses demands and transactions related to hotel, residential and commercial projects, including shopping malls, leasing, rental, construction and turn-key.
Together with the Firm’s litigation area, the real estate team also advises our clients in extrajudicial and judicial litigation matters involving urban and/or rural properties, as well as the property and possession defense, and the regularization before the public bodies.