Practice Areas
Learn about all our areas of expertise by clicking on the items below:
Tax Law
Through corporate tax rates analysis, taking into account the Brazilian Legislation and Constitution, we identify all legal possibilities to reduce fiscal load using tax planning and credit recovery tools.
We work in all areas regarding tax policies, before administrative or judicial bodies, responding to duty problems and fiscal fines.
We advise our clients on tax law issues originated from companies’ incorporation, dissolution, merger, transformation or acquisition processes.
We also help our clients’ tax departments to take precautionary measures concerning accounting entries and the formalization of information sent to tax authorities.
Reviewed in tax consultancy work, the polls for federal, state and local tax returns and the corresponding (DIPJ, DCTF, DACON, FCONT, PER / DCOMP, DES, etc. DAPI.) As well as the obligations incidental.
We provide advice in the preparation of formal consultations to tax authorities on the application of tax rules and the requests for special arrangements.
We advise our clients in implementing and executing projects related to SPED – Public System of Digital.
Civil Law and Consumer Protection Law
We work in general civil litigation, including family matters, inheritance, contracts, property, ownership and so on in all instances, as well as in superior courts.
We develop and analyze all kinds of legal instruments, offering and monitoring civil actions, for indemnity (due to material or moral damages, profit etc.), trademarks and patents, executions, among others.
We advise our clients, accompanying them in all procedures under the Brazilian Consumer Protection Code, in actions brought by consumers or collective defense organs.
We are active in real estate law advising our clients in cases of incorporation, establishment of condominiums, buying and selling real estate, adverse possession and the process of real estate financing.
Labor and Employment Law
We perform labor audits aiming to correct and adjust routine procedures adopted by the company in order to identify, reduce or eliminate contingencies which may represent liabilities.
We advise our clients in meetings with trade unions and federations, regarding collective dispute or bargaining agreements.
We elaborate defenses to our clients in proceedings related to collective disputes brought by workers or labor unions.
We advise in and follow the procedures initiated by the Brazilian Ministry of Labor and Employment, including conduct adjustment agreements.
We provide consultancy and advice for implementing arbitration boards in economic or professional categories.
Environmental Law
We assist our clients suggesting preventive measures, seeking the best legal solution to remedy any deficiencies, evaluating the legal environment of business from the perspective of law in specific activities of the sector.
We advise our clients on business analysis involving the use of natural resources.
We follow administrative procedures before the environmental agencies (municipal, state and federal), civil investigation by the prosecution and lawsuits aimed at defending the interests of business with these bodies.
Aiming at the Sustainable Development of our customers, we examined the possibility of implementing the Environmental Certification (ISO 14,001) and Development Project of Carbon Credits.
Our firm acts in administrative and environmental litigations before all SISNAMA (Brazilian National System for the Environment) organs, at nationwide, state and municipal levels, in order to protect, through legal ways, the company business interests and obtain environmental permits, concessions and authorizations.
The practice of law in the great discipline of environmental law, it also involves acting, for which the firm is fully accredited in specific segments, namely, the Mining Law (procedures for titling by the mining DNPM and agreements between the land-owners and holders of mining rights), the Urban Planning Law (urban environmental management, advising municipalities in drafting the Master Plan and regulatory instruments for environmental protection) and the Forestry Law (establishment of protected areas (PRNP), bondage forest and registration of legal reserve).
Commercial Law
We advise and assist companies in bankruptcy and execution proceedings and, in addition, in contracts – including banking – elaboration, analysis and revision.
We work in judicial or extrajudicial proceedings for recovering companies.
Arbitration Law
We work within arbitration chambers and on its procedures, acting on a preventive way to solve disputes through arbitration.
We advise entities and business groups to create and establish arbitration boards.
We advise our clients while elaborating arbitration commitments and clauses.
Corporate Law and Securities Markets
We provide advisory services to companies going through merger, division, incorporation, acquisition, joint venture and privatization processes.
We act in securities market and in all corporate processes for capital opening and closing, public offerings, issuing bonds, commercial paper and other securities in the domestic and international markets.
We perform advocacy in representative and advisory way before the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM (Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission) and the Central Bank of Brazil, in processes of formation, acquisition or control transference of financial institutions and open capital companies.
We defend the mediator and investors’ interests before the Securities Markets Guarantee Funds.
We present defenses and follow the proceedings before the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM (Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission) and the Conselho de Recursos do Sistema Financeiro Nacional (Resources Council of the Brazilian Financial System).
