Drafting and analysis of contracts in general, as well as contractual terminations;

Legal consulting on real estate purchase financing;

Evaluation and legal guidance in the utilization of the mortgage statute in conducting businesses;

Consulting service in real estate developments, land subdivisions, construction contracts, and residential and commercial leases agreements.

Recovery of Debt abroad;

Legal advice services on import and export of goods;

Legal guidance on technology transfers;

Accompanying clients in negotiations.

Legal consulting for financial institutions;

Structured operations, public and private issuances in the national and international capital markets;

Consulting services in public offers to acquire shares for the cancellation of the registration of a publicly-held company, increase of controlling shareholder’s participation: acquisition of control of a publicly-held company;

Administrative and judicial litigation in matters related to the capital market;

Operations related to stock exchange, futures markets, and over-the-counter markets;

Structuring, establishment and registration of investment funds such as: Credit Rights Investment Funds (FIDC) and Equity Investment Funds (FIP);

Securitization operations, including those involving real estate receivables;

Consulting services to financial institutions, companies, and investment funds regarding the compliance with specific laws and regulations.

Tax crimes;

Crimes against the financial system;

Money laundering crimes;

Economic crimes (unfair competition, capital markets, consumer law, among others);

Crimes related to bidding laws;

Bankruptcy crimes;

Press crimes;

Environmental crimes;

Crimes committed in extrajudicial liquidation and interventions.

Drafting and analysis of electronic contracts;

Advice on Internet-related matters, especially regarding domain names;

Negotiations for technology transfer and trade secrets;

Representation in administrative (INPI) and judicial litigation disputes involving intellectual and industrial property;

Advice on franchise-related matters.

Public service concession;

Public-private partnership;

Electric Energy;

Telecommunications;

Sanitation;

Competition;

Consumer Law;

Banking;

Public civil actions and popular actions covering various topics.

Consulting for financial institutions in the compliance area.

Consulting services on qualification and participation in tenders for concessions;

Representation in administrative and judicial litigation concerning regulatory agencies, as well as their areas of expertise;

Drafting and reviewing contracts involving concessions, partnerships, and related rights in the area of telecommunications, oil, natural gas, biofuels and electric power;

Drafting and reviewing financing contracts in the fields of telecommunications, oil, natural gas, biofuels and electric power;

Litigation in the Brazilian Courts involving electric power issues.

Drafting of legal opinions and responses to inquiries related to labor, social security, and union legislation;

Consulting on procedures to be followed by companies to formalize employee hiring;

Assistance in union negotiations;

Drafting of defenses, consignment and payment lawsuits, injunctions, precautionary measures, declaratory actions, appeals before all levels of Labor Courts and Labor Public Prosecutor’s Office;

Attendance at hearings and oral arguments before courts;

Judicial approval of termination agreements, proposal of judicial investigation for the dismissal of employees with job stability.

Consulting

Consulting and preparation of general legal opinions, in the field of labor, social security and labor union;

Labor crisis management and advice;

Advice and preventive training, for labor legal department, as well as, the human resources team, and other employees;

Expertise in class actions and collective actions;

Representation/defense of client’s interests in investigations conducted by the Labor Public Prosecutor’s Office and inspections and/or penalties imposed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security;

Consulting services in union negotiations.

Tax Litigation

Drafting of requests for special regimes and tax incentives;

Due diligence of tax related matters in mergers, acquisitions, incorporations and other operations;

Guidance and assistance in tax audits, including for individuals;

Preparation and monitoring of defenses and appeals in administrative proceedings;

Drafting and monitoring of all appropriate judicial measures to reduce tax burdens;

Drafting of administrative and legal claims for the recovery of wrongly paid amounts;

Defense against lawsuits for undue tax claims;

Assistance in obtaining tax clearance certificates;

Risk analysis in judicial and administrative disputes and identification of contingencies;

Tax procedural updates seminars;

Injunctions, annulment actions of arbitration award, and credit recovery claims.

Drafting of legal opinions and responses to tax inquiries;

Drafting of pleas and negotiations with the government to obtain tax incentives and special tax regimes;

Monitoring of due diligence procedures and non-procedural tax risk analysis;

Assistance in contract negotiations regarding tax matters;

Participation in legal-tax committees to discuss and propose changes to tax legislation;

Development and coordination of Tax Committees (“Tax Updates”) aiming to provide knowledge and debate on major tax changes for our clients.