_What We Do
Corporate
We provide regular and continuous assistance to companies of all sectors, from their establishment and throughout all stages of their development and growth, offering innovative legal solutions for all our clients' demands.
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)
We assist and structure complex operations involving the buying and selling of companies (private equity and strategic players), strategic partnerships (joint ventures and, consortia), investment rounds and divestments in startups and fast-growing companies (venture capital).
Our services also include:
• Corporate Reorganizations, including wealth management
• Corporate Governance, including shareholders' and/or partners' agreements and other corporate acts
• Long-Term Incentive Plans
• Issuance of debentures and other securities
• Structuring of Investment Funds
• Registration of Foreign Investments and Loans with the Central Bank of Brazil (BACEN)
• Debt renegotiation, including security and collateral contracts
Commercial Contracts & Strategic Business
Well-drafted contracts ensure clarity in risk allocation, providing predictability, minimizing conflicts, and associated costs. Based on an understanding of each client's business and a refined cost-benefit view, we offer pragmatic and proportionate contractual solutions, allowing the conclusion of contracts with the appropriate level of detail and complexity to protect clients' interests in each case.
Our services cover:
• Assistance in negotiating strategic contracts (Supply, Turnkey, EPC, PPA, etc.)
• Assistance in financing, fundraising, and corresponding security
• Contract simplification solutions
• Routine contract management
• Creation of standard contract templates
• Mapping of internal demands for compliance with applicable legislation
• Support in creating internal legal processes
Compliance
Our firm offers specialized compliance services aimed at preventing, identifying, and mitigating risks that may affect a company's economic-financial integrity and reputation. We utilize a multidisciplinary approach, combining expertise in areas such as administrative law, competition law, corporate law, tax law, and international trade to provide tailored solutions to each client's specific needs.
Our compliance services include:
• Compliance and integrity consultancy, including the structuring and review of compliance, integrity, and corporate governance programs
• Assistance in identifying, evaluating, and managing compliance programs and internal risks
• Reputational analysis and third-party management
• Compliance audits in M&A transactions
• Ethics, compliance, and governance training
• Review of contracts and specific clauses for the protection of the company's reputation and business
• Creation and development of codes of ethics and/or conduct, as well as training for their implementation
• Development of ethical administrative process flowcharts (arising from complaints), as well as support in the processing of such claims and legal support in private administrative decision-making
Capital Markets
We provide advice on strategic issues in the capital markets for publicly traded companies, asset managers, investment funds, shareholders, and other market participants. Our expertise covers a wide range of capital market operations, both in Brazil and abroad.
Our services include:
• Structuring and registration of public offerings of securities in Brazil
• Registration of issuers of securities
• Public offerings of debt securities (debentures and commercial papers)
• Public offerings of real estate receivables certificates (CRIs) and agricultural receivables certificates (CRAs)
• Public offerings of investment funds
• Structuring asset securitization operations for private or public placement
Infrastructure & Project Finance
With extensive experience in the legal structuring of infrastructure, engineering, and construction projects, our team provides specialized support to public and private projects. We also assist investors and agents interested in participating in tenders for regulated activities, concession contracts, and public-private partnerships.
Our multidisciplinary approach covers aspects of Public Law and Private Law, providing comprehensive legal support throughout all phases of each project. This includes conception and modeling, financing, execution of works, and operation of the ventures.
Education
Through our extensive experience in M&A, we have developed a deep understanding of the relevant aspects applicable to the education sector. We work closely with entrepreneurs in the education industry, assisting them in the successful implementation of various schools, educational centers, and educational institutions acquisition projects.
We are familiar with the specific requirements and regulations governing school operations, including licensing, authorization, and supervision.
Our comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge allows us to provide strategic and personalized advice to our clients in the education sector, helping them navigate with confidence the legal and regulatory challenges that arise during M&A processes and other educational ventures.
Energy
We offer specialized consulting in legal and contractual matters in the energy sector, including project structuring and negotiation of strategic contracts. Our services cover various aspects, such as:
• Distributed and centralized generation projects
• Power purchase and sale contracts in the free and regulated markets
• Structuring of independent production and self-generation projects
• Structuring of local and foreign investments in the sector
We draft and negotiate contracts for project implementation, including contracts with off-takers, EPCs, O&Ms, PPAs, equipment supply, construction, service provision, and supply of inputs and raw materials, among others.
Additionally, we provide advice on infrastructure project financing through private fundraising and capital markets, including debenture issuances and security packages.
Agribusiness
We handle advisory, negotiation, and contractual issues related to the agricultural production chain.
Our expertise covers:
• Rural Product Notes (CPR) and other agribusiness credit instruments
• Contracts and commercial, financial, partnership, and joint venture operations
• Review and analysis of security in transactions involving agricultural commodities (mortgage, agricultural pledge, fiduciary assignment, endorsement, and guarantee)
• Agricultural contracts (rural partnership, rural lease, barter, purchase and sale of agricultural inputs, raw materials, and commodities)
• Logistics, transportation, and storage contracts
Healthcare
Our firm also provides integrated advice to companies in the pharmaceutical, healthcare and biotechnology sectors.
We offer consultancy on issues related to:
• Advertising, content, and means of promoting prescription and OTC pharmaceutical products
• Relationships between companies in the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals, hospitals, clinics, professional associations, regulatory boards, and patient associations, including typical contracts in the field
• Negotiation and drafting of contracts for conducting clinical trials in Brazil, including research protocols, consent forms, license contracts, distribution, and transfer of ownership of products subject to health regulations, as well as outsourcing of services in the medical and pharmaceutical fields
• Licensing of products (In-Licensing & Out-Licensing)
• Logistics, transportation, and storage contracts for pharma products
Sports & Entertainment
Our firm provides integrated advisory services to clubs, sponsors, entrepreneurs, agents, and athletes, covering traditional sports and e-sports.
Our services include:
• Advisory services for clubs and sports federations/associations, covering regulatory, contractual, and corporate matters
• Structuring of corporate and financing models for clubs, including Football Stock Corporations (SAFs) and other similar structures
• Contractual advice to entrepreneurs and agents, domestic and international transfers of athletes, resolution of disputes between clubs, agents, and athletes through dispute resolution chambers and arbitration
Additionally, our services cover all legal aspects related to leagues, clubs, sponsors, and athletes in relation to the protection and negotiation of image rights and media rights in general. This includes the production and distribution of content on television broadcasters, digital channels, social media, and other media platforms.
We also operate in the general entertainment market, providing comprehensive legal advice to all involved in the audiovisual and music industries, as well as cultural and sports event producers.