High specialization with integrated performance.
Our firm provides specialized and integrated services, covering all fields of business law and additional multidisciplinary expertise, with a view to offering complete solutions to complex problems. We offer much more than law.
Administrative and Regulatory Law
We have a team with a wealth of experience with Government cases and a high rate of success in judicial and administrative proceedings, including before Accounting Courts. We offer strategic guidance and proposals for solutions focused on risk mitigation and cost-effectiveness for companies dealing with the Government. We have extensive experience in public-private partnerships, negotiations, and contracts regarding the use of public property.
- Celso Basílio
- José Leça
- Leonardo Camiza
- Manoel André da Rocha
- Maria Elisa Marcolin
- Ricardo Moraes
Agrarian Law
We are prepared to deal with the current complex challenges associated with agribusiness, especially in the real estate sector; corporate structuring and asset management; taxation of the production chain and transactions in the sector; finding new means of financing; labor and environmental issues. Our experience includes family businesses, investment funds, and publicly traded companies located in a number of states.
- Cassiano Menke
- Giovanni Mendes Ribeiro Pallaoro
- Guilherme Guimarães
- Igor Rossoni
- Nicolas Paiva
- Pedro Chagas
- Rodrigo Mutti
Arbitration/Mediation
Our culture is based on the search for friendly settlements as a way to better address the interests of our clients. We have a tradition of more than 30 years in the study and adoption of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, whether in arbitration, mediation, dispute boards, or other specialized administrative procedures. Our dispute resolution department has a vast track record in representing clients in arbitrations before the main international centers. The Firm also usually supports and participates in some of the main international arbitration moots, including competing with its own team of young professionals. Our digital law department was a pioneer in conducting alternative procedures involving trademarks and domain names on the Internet. The Firm also has lawyers with leadership positions or who are part of the arbitrators/mediators in renowned dispute resolution centers in Brazil and abroad.
- André Silveiro
- Carolina Roncatto
- Felipe Esbroglio
- Guilherme Feijo
- Igor Rossoni
- Julie Kelbert Griebler
- Leonardo Braga Moura
- Leonardo Castro
- Luísa Dresch
- Lukas Irion
- Rafael Glerian Machado
- Marcelo Tosin
- Ricardo Dornelles Chaves Barcellos
- Ricardo Moraes
- Ricardo Ranzolin
- Rodrigo Azevedo
Asset Management
We offer estate planning customized to the peculiarities of each case, taking into account all related aspects, such as tax costs, corporate issues, probate and family law, among others. We have decades of experience in advising family businesses with a view to succession for institutional management, including attention to the psychological aspects involved in these contexts. We have the support of professionals from the Firm specialized in other areas of law, such as Corporate, Tax, Procedural and Labor Law, providing clients with global solutions for their demands.
- Cassiano Menke
- Fernando Rene Graeff
- José Roberto Meirelles
- Julia Leivas
- Julie Kelbert Griebler
- Pedro Chagas
- Rennan Luft
- Rodrigo Candia
Business Investigations
Acting in internal investigations required the creation of a team with professionals from different practice areas, such as criminal, compliance, digital, competition, labor law, among others. We know that the correct investigation of suspicions or complaints is essential for the efficiency of compliance systems and for possible procedural use. Thus, it is not enough just to have answers, but they need to be legally valid in order, if necessary, to implement administrative and judicial procedures. In this way, our team supports the follow-up of investigations that seek to clarify deviations and irregularities that occurred within the companies, identifying responsible parties and gathering adequate evidence for the composition of evidentiary material to be used in any litigation or in the execution of conduct adjustment agreements or leniency agreements. The team has experts to investigate allegations of fraud, corruption, moral and sexual harassment, work accidents, money laundering, information security incidents, such as intentional leakage of personal data, and other confidential information, insider trading, anticompetitive practices, environmental crimes, breach of contracts, tax offenses, among others.
- Ana Maria Colombo
- Ana Paula Ávilla
- Guilherme Guimarães
- Rafael Canterji
Capital Markets
The capital markets department has a highly specialized multidisciplinary team, with extensive experience and solid legal training in this subject. Our services cover complex capital market structures, encompassing tax and corporate governance issues. Through the development of innovative investment structures, we participate in sophisticated operations related to public and private issue of debentures, promissory notes (NPs), bank credit notes (CCB), and securitization operations, mainly including real estate receivables certificates (CRI) and agribusiness receivables certificates (CRA).
- José Roberto Meirelles
Crisis Management
We act in a multidisciplinary way in the prevention and management of crises and incidents of different natures, including from the perspectives of compliance, digital and criminal law. Emphasis on building resilience through preventive action, assessment and adequate coping with risks. Construction of incident prevention and response plans and support in structuring the Crisis Committee. Specialization and robust experience in handling cyber incidents and digital crises.
- Ana Paula Ávilla
- Rafael Canterji
- Rodrigo Azevedo
Compliance
We have a team with experience in the implementation and review of Compliance management systems according to ISO standards, offering solutions for assessment, monitoring and responsiveness to business risks. The programs aim for our clients to develop their economic activities safely and conduct their operations within a policy of adherence to ethical and regulatory standards, preventing risks, adding value to their reputation in the market and, consequently, to the goods and services they offer. Complementary performance of reference in data governance.
- Ana Maria Colombo
- Ana Paula Ávilla
- Isadora Rodrigues
- Maria Elisa Marcolin
- Maria Laura Arnt
- Maurício Esteves
- Rodrigo Azevedo
Competition Law
Advisory and litigation support, including in administrative proceedings before CADE.
- Celso Basílio
- Maria Elisa Marcolin
- Ricardo Moraes
- Rodrigo Azevedo
Consumer Law
We have robust experience in consumer disputes, including collective actions, with outstanding performance in the retail, financial, automotive, services and products for civil construction, shopping mall and real estate sectors. Our work focuses on the particularities of each situation and on a long-term and cost-effective managerial strategic evaluation for the client, including the search for settlement, aiming at minimizing the number of actions. We map and act in lawsuits throughout the Brazilian territory, with an emphasis on identifying critical points, main causes, risks involved and best estimate for provisions, providing complete information for clients to make strategic decisions.
- Ana Luísa Dummel
- Beatriz Alves de Carvalho
- Bruno Leal do Amaral
- Carolina Feldmann
- Carolina Melo
- Carolina Roncatto
- Clarice de Oliveira Matté
- Fabio de Albuquerque
- Felipe Esbroglio
- Gabriel Schuster
- Giovanni Mendes Ribeiro Pallaoro
- Gizela Rui Busatto
- João Marcelo Lopes Vidal Raupp
- Jully Pinheiro
- Laura de Paula
- Laura Vogado Lima
- Maria Carolina Martinho de Oliveira
- Maria Elisa Marcolin
- Marina Sulzbach
- Matheus Werner
- Rafael Glerian Machado
- Ricardo Fortes
- Ricardo Moraes
- Ricardo Ranzolin
- Sabrina Wiegand Hellwig
- Victor Alioto
Contracts
We have teams capable of taking on actions related to corporate contracts from the companies’ legal departments. Starting from a successful methodology of work provided in a collaborative, available and standardized way, our clients find a quick and qualified solution for these actions. We also believe that, in order to examine a corporate contract, it is necessary to know the culture, processes, and especially the activities developed by our clients, and this training is an essential part for new talents in this practice area.
- Celso Basílio
- Giovani Ceccon
- Giovanni Mendes Ribeiro Pallaoro
- Isadora de Oliveira Dias
- Julie Kelbert Griebler
- João Guilherme Bochini Calsavara
- Nicolas Paiva
- Rafael Brunati
- Rodrigo Candia
Corporate Law
Corporate Law and asset management are at the origin of our firm, as our founder João Carlos Silveiro was one of the pioneers in such fields. Currently, we operate under different prisms (full service), delivering innovative solutions in complex cases. We work in outstanding processes of conversion of family businesses into institutional businesses, including multidisciplinary approaches, in addition to merely legal action. We understand the impact of legal decisions on companies’ operational processes, acting with a strategic and business focus, with a concern to avoid litigation.
- André Silveiro
- Cassiano Menke
- Fernando Rene Graeff
- Giovani Ceccon
- Guilherme de Oliveira Abreu
- Julie Kelbert Griebler
- Pedro Chagas
- Rafael Brunati
- Ricardo Ranzolin
- Rodrigo Candia
- Rodrigo Nascimento
Criminal Law
We work in an artisanal way, with full and very personal dedication to each client. We aim at protecting guarantees and fundamental rights, as well as preserving the image of our clients. We promote advisory support by preparing opinions and preventive measures aimed at reducing the risk of criminal liability; and litigation support, at all procedural stages, in the representation of suspects, defendants or victims.
- Ana Maria Colombo
- Fernanda Gosmann Morais
- Gustavo Koji Maeda
- Rafael Canterji
Data Protection/LGPD
Our expertise in this field comes from more than 20 years of professional experience, including pioneering certification – with distinction – by the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Our team has lawyers with international professional and academic training, including the USA, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Argentina. We lead more than 80 LGPD compliance projects for some of the largest Brazilian companies, as well as multinational companies. Additionally, through social action, we have already qualified more than 1000 people to act as data protection officers.
- Ana Paula Ávilla
- Isadora Rodrigues
- Leonardo Braga Moura
- Maria Laura Arnt
- Maurício Esteves
- Rodrigo Azevedo
Digital/Cybersecurity
We were pioneers and are reference in protecting companies’ initiatives in digital media or in the face of the challenges brought by information technology. We offer specialized digital crisis prevention and management services, focused on cyber incidents. Our team has lawyers with international professional and academic training, including the USA, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Argentina.
- Ana Paula Ávilla
- Guilherme Declerque de Almeida
- Isadora Rodrigues
- Leonardo Braga Moura
- Maurício Esteves
- Rafael Canterji
- Rodrigo Azevedo
Entertainment/Sports
We have expertise and extensive experience in supporting cultural initiatives, including leadership positions in entities such as Fundação Bienal do Mercosul and Fundação Iberê Camargo. We protect the intellectual property of our clients, in Brazil and abroad, and we prepare all types of contracts necessary for the exploitation of intangible assets and for the viability of cultural actions. We were pioneers and we are especially focused in acting on the Internet and digital media. In the Sports field, we support large soccer clubs and have professionals who occupy leading positions in specialized courts. We also have special emphasis on labor aspects related to Sports Law.
- Guilherme Guimarães
- Leonardo Braga Moura
- Rodrigo Azevedo
Environmental Law
We support our clients’ initiatives – especially in the industrial and agribusiness segments – to reduce the environmental impact of their activities and comply with legislation. We work in environmental and preventive advisory, and in administrative and judicial proceedings, including in the criminal scope.
- Luísa Dresch
- Manoel André da Rocha
- Maria Elisa Marcolin
- Ricardo Moraes
ESG
Our Firm is notable for providing legal advice pro bono for the establishment and operation of some of the most important third sector institutions and NGOs. We offer specialized support in environmental law and compliance, including data governance.
- Ana Paula Ávilla
- Bia Kowalweski
- Julie Kelbert Griebler
- Leonardo Braga Moura
- Pedro Chagas
- Rafael Canterji
- Ricardo Dornelles Chaves Barcellos
- Ricardo Moraes
- Ricardo Ranzolin
- Rodrigo Azevedo
Infrastructure
We support national development through specialized advice to public and private companies and the preparation of legal instruments that support infrastructure initiatives. We are highly specialized in alternative solutions for complex businesses, including arbitration, mediation, and dispute boards. We support public-private partnerships and advise on investment operations from abroad.
- Celso Basílio
- Manoel André da Rocha
- Maria Elisa Marcolin
- Ricardo Moraes
- Ricardo Ranzolin
Insolvency/Restructuring
We have a multidisciplinary team made up of professionals with academic expertise and extensive experience in corporate restructuring and court-supervised reorganization. We provide legal advice in court-supervised reorganization and bankruptcy proceedings throughout Brazil. We operate based on a strategic and business vision to advise our clients to seek legal, financial, and economic alternatives to overcome the crisis and insolvency case, allowing the company to rebuild itself. We also defend creditors’ interests and the recovery of their claims from companies undergoing court-supervised reorganization or bankruptcy proceedings.
- Daniel Báril
- Guilherme Feijo
- Luisa Siebeneichler Henze
- Marcelo Tosin
- Ricardo Fortes
Intellectual Property
We have more than 25 years of international experience in Intellectual Property. We were pioneers and are reference in protecting intellectual property in digital media or in the face of the challenges brought by information technology. Our team is known for our strong international credentials (including LL.M., postgraduate studies, certifications, and work experience in the United States, Argentina, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands). We protect our clients’ intellectual property through advisory and strategic guidelines, registrations in Brazil and in more than 100 other countries, and administrative, judicial or arbitration proceedings.
- Francesca Balestrin
- Leonardo Braga Moura
- Maria Laura Arnt
- Maurício Esteves
- Rodrigo Azevedo
- Sofia Frischenbruder Sulzbach
- Vinícius Krey
Investment Funds
The investment funds department has a highly specialized multidisciplinary team, with extensive experience and solid legal training in this subject. Our services cover complex investment fund structures, encompassing tax and corporate governance issues. Our professionals are engaged in the structuring and implementation of complex operations involving investment funds and their offerings. Such deals involve credit receivables investment funds (FIDC), non-standardized receivables investment funds (FIDC-NP), equity investment funds (FIP), real estate investment funds (FII), investment funds in agro-industrial production chains (FIAGRO), multimarket investment funds (FIM) and stock investment funds (FIA), among others.
- José Roberto Meirelles
- Nicolas Paiva
- Pedro Chagas
- Rodrigo Mutti
Judicial Litigation
We provide high performance in complex conflict solutions with the best cost-benefit for our clients. We have more than 60 years of experience, with a successful track record in actions before the Judiciary throughout Brazil. We provide strategic guidance strictly linked to the cost-benefit analysis, according to the client’s business, for effective and lasting solutions. We have special emphasis on the prevention and quick resolution of the dispute, with specialized lawyers to act in the negotiation phase, in the mediation and in the search for out-of-court solutions.
- Achilles Steinhaus
- Ana Larissa
- Bruno Leal do Amaral
- Carolina Roncatto
- Fabio de Albuquerque
- Felipe Esbroglio
- Fernando Rene Graeff
- Giovanni Mendes Ribeiro Pallaoro
- Guilherme Feijo
- Igor Rossoni
- Karina Valero Gerab
- Leonardo Castro
- Luísa Dresch
- Luisa Siebeneichler Henze
- Lukas Irion
- Manoel André da Rocha
- Marcelo Tosin
- Maria Elisa Marcolin
- Marina Radaelli
- Pauliane Marchi
- Rafael Brunati
- Rafael Glerian Machado
- Ricardo Dornelles Chaves Barcellos
- Ricardo Fortes
- Ricardo Moraes
- Ricardo Ranzolin
- Rodrigo Zuliani
- Victor Alioto
- Vitória Merlini Garcia Dalagnol
- Yasmin Rahal de Andrade
Labor Law
We have extensive experience in guiding and drafting individual and collective labor contracts, as well as advising on individual and collective agreements and collective bargaining. We provide preventive advisory and judicial and administrative litigation in all instances. Personalized service, with artistry, even in mass processes. Multidisciplinary approach, with the support of a team of medical, accounting and technical experts.
- Bruno Bevilaqua Tussi
- Caroline Garibaldi
- Fernanda Darós
- Flavia Bruno
- Gabriela Carvalho
- Guilherme Guimarães
- Júlia Vidarte Kralik
- Larissa Garcia Salgado
- Mateus Cosmo Cardoso
- Tainá Franck Sarmento
Life Sciences and Health Care
The Life Sciences and HealthCare area has the expertise of a partner specialized in Bioethics and Biolaw, with academic and professional activities also in Civil Law and Civil Procedure, essentially in civil liability and personality rights, which guarantees the multidisciplinary vision that the nuances of the area require.
In addition to the track record in sensitive cases – liability for serious side effects of medications, medical and hospital liability, among others – the area is constantly updated and in contact with the most recent academic research in the national and international scenarios.
- Yasmin Rahal de Andrade
M&A / Private Equity
Our M&A practice advises national and international companies in both the purchase and sale of equity interests during all phases of negotiations, whether in transactions involving transfer of control or joint ventures. With a history of almost 70 years, we assist our clients through collaborative work involving the most diverse areas of law, including tax and competition aspects related to the structuring of operations from the simplest to the most complex that require corporate reorganizations or approval by government authorities. In venture capital and private equity, our team has an extensive track record, advising funds, investee companies and/or investors in their investments and divestitures.
- Giovani Ceccon
- Julie Kelbert Griebler
- Pedro Chagas
- Rafael Brunati
- Rodrigo Candia
- Rodrigo Nascimento
Management of Legal Departments
We have professionals who are entirely familiar with all aspects of the routine of a legal department, which results in differentiated services for clients who wish to assign part of their legal tasks to our Firm. We maintain permanent contracts for the management of the portfolio of judicial and administrative proceedings, establishing regular contact with the contracted firms. We have experience in defining and implementing contingency and provisions policy. As a consultancy, we help our clients to implement a secure routine of submission, analysis, and approval of corporate contracts.
- Nicolas Paiva
- Rafael Glerian Machado
- Ricardo Moraes
- Rodrigo Mutti
Probate and Family
We have over half a century of experience, high academic training and personalized service together with other legal expertise. We offer personalized service, with an emphasis on dispute prevention and strategic guidance for the out-of-court solution of conflicts. We have a special focus on estate planning customized to the peculiarities of each case, taking into account all related aspects, such as tax costs, corporate issues, among others. We work with the support of professionals from the Firm specialized in complementary areas of law, such as Corporate, Tax, Procedural and Labor Law, providing clients with global solutions for their demands.
- Caroline Pomjé
- Fernando Rene Graeff
- Gizela Rui Busatto
- Pedro Chagas
- Ricardo Ranzolin
Real Estate Law
We offer legal and business solutions for real estate operations throughout the country. We have solid experience in real estate operations throughout Brazil, providing services to large, multinational, and foreign companies. We provide strategic guidance strictly linked to the cost-benefit analysis, according to the client’s business, for effective and lasting solutions. Possibility of global service, in synergy with specialized areas such as Corporate, Environmental, Paralegal, Litigation, Tax, Administrative, and Family.
- Ana Larissa
- Bruna Gauer Quintana
- Carlos Eduardo Baumann
- Giovanni Mendes Ribeiro Pallaoro
- Nicolas Paiva
- Rodrigo Mutti
Startups
We support the formation and institutionalization of new businesses, with special emphasis on corporate, contractual, and intellectual property aspects. We advise all levels and stages of investment in companies, from their foundation to the decision of going public. We were pioneers in digital law, being able to advise on the protection of innovation and technological developments, in Brazil and abroad.
- Giovani Ceccon
- Guilherme Feijo
- Pedro Chagas
- Rodrigo Azevedo
- Yan Viegas Silva
Shopping Malls
Our multidisciplinary team has advised Shopping Mall undertakings in all phases of the business, from legal support in the acquisition of the land, as well as in its equity structure and corporate organization, including when coupled with a multipurpose complex with commercial and residential buildings, which require special regulations because of their interdependence. We also advise on the legal preparation of the special condominium agreement, lease instruments, accessory agreements and general rules related to the enterprise. We also manage the entire litigation sphere of the enterprise, advising enterprises and sometimes the condominium itself, whether in actions arising from the tenancy relationship, such as eviction actions, renovations, revisions, enforcements, rendering of accounts, collective actions, as well as in relation to the operation of the Shopping Mall, such as indemnities and collections.
- Nicolas Paiva
- Ricardo Fortes
- Rodrigo Mutti
Strategic and Highly Complex Advocacy
Our specialty is dealing with highly complex issues, whether in advisory cases or in dispute resolution. We can address projects without restrictions of size, specialization or territory. We essentially seek to offer customized solutions, providing legal certainty for clients to be bold in their initiatives. We believe that legal solutions are, above all, business solutions. Thus, we offer not only a full-service approach – covering all fields of Law – but also a multidisciplinary approach, by professionals trained in complementary fields of knowledge.
- Cassiano Menke
- Guilherme Guimarães
- Pedro Chagas
- Rafael Canterji
- Ricardo Moraes
- Ricardo Ranzolin
- Rodrigo Azevedo
- Rodrigo Mutti
Tax Law
We operate in the field of strategic advisory through legal and tax advice in economic operations of the most diverse levels of complexity, as well as in the litigation field, in complex cases, through the construction of consistent and exclusive reasons for the defense of our clients. We offer tax planning in corporate businesses (joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and consolidations), in addition to Strategic Tax Management to reduce the tax burden, with cost/benefit analysis and preventive guidance. We work beyond the law, together with auditing and accounting professionals.
- Ana Carolina Leal
- Artur Pinheiro Amantéa
- Beatriz Alves de Carvalho
- Bruna Pires
- Cainã Sacardi Guedes
- Cassiano Menke
- Elisa Barbosa Viani
- Giovana Andresa Papadopoulos Marzola
- João Victor Tomazelli
- Jonas Ricobello
- Julia Leivas
- Larissa Moratto
- Lívia Stumpf
- Lorenzo Pozzebon
- Mariana Barroco
- Mayara Monteiro
- Mayumi Suwa Bressan
- Pietro Tasca Segala
- Victória Catherine Fernandes do Canto
Telecommunications
We have extensive experience in full service for clients in the telecommunications sector, whether telephone services, fiber optics, radio base stations and towers, supply chain vendors, Cloud and IoT services, as well as streaming and television. It is a highly regulated sector, both from the point of view of authorization for the development of the activity by the client, as well as for the delivery of the product or service to the clients. Our team has the necessary knowledge to apply the most varied topics of law to the peculiarities of this sector.
- Bruna Gauer Quintana
- Celso Basílio
- Felipe Esbroglio
- Guilherme Guimarães
- Igor Rossoni
- José Leça
- Leonardo Castro
- Maria Elisa Marcolin
- Nicolas Paiva
- Rafael Brunati
- Ricardo Moraes
- Ricardo Ranzolin
- Rodrigo Mutti
Trade Union Relations
We believe that collective bargaining is one of the most important instruments of Labor Law, enabling negotiated solutions compatible with the reality of each productive activity. We have extensive experience in conducting collective bargaining and union relations, working with a focus on preventing liabilities and mitigating risks. Our professionals work in the various stages of the collective bargaining procedure, such as employers’ meetings in which the demands of the working classes are reviewed and clauses of interest of the economic category are approved, as well as in the creation and preparation of negotiation groups, participating in the negotiation tables and drafting the instruments accordingly. We also offer advice to companies in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, providing personalized and practical solutions.
- Guilherme Guimarães
- Larissa Garcia Salgado
São Paulo
55 11 3810.9800
Av. Faria Lima, 4221 – 16° andar – 04538-133
Porto Alegre
55 51 3027.8700
Av. Carlos Gomes, 258 – 9º andar – 90480-000
Brasília
55 61 2196.7864
Setor Comercial Sul, Quadra 9, Bloco C, Torre C – Sala 1002 G – 70308-200