Practices
Mergers and Acquisitions
(M&A)
We guide clients through the development, expansion, and sale of companies and assets, drawing on extensive experience to structure and execute sophisticated deals. Our practice encompasses representation of buyers, sellers, and investors in a wide array of corporate transactions. By aligning creative strategies with each client’s specific objectives, we deliver efficient, tailored solutions designed to drive value and manage risk at every stage of the deal cycle.
Dispute Resolution
(judicial, arbitral and out-of-court disputes)
Leveraging a proactive approach, we counsel clients on conflict management and dispute avoidance strategies well before litigation arises. When formal proceedings become unavoidable, we represent clients in judicial, arbitral, and out-of-court forums across civil and corporate matters. Our services include identifying credits and debts, negotiating court-supervised reorganization plans, and maximizing outcomes. We also serve as judicial trustees in reorganization cases and advise creditors and debtors in restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings, ensuring comprehensive support throughout the dispute resolution process.ceedings.
Corporate Law and Estate Planning
Our team advises on a full spectrum of corporate documentation, from bylaws and articles of association to restructuring instruments, shareholder agreements, and meeting minutes. We offer end-to-end support – from initial negotiations and drafting of commercial, banking, and real estate agreements to designing efficient succession plans that protect both emotional and financial family interests. Our approach emphasizes effective tax management and safeguards against third-party liabilities, blending business acumen with sound legal insights.
Financial and Capital Markets
We counsel on a broad range of capital market transactions, including bond issuances, investment fund regulations, tender offers, and related administrative proceedings before the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM). In addition, we represent both domestic and international clients in joint ventures, spin-offs, and innovative business structures, including the design of complex financial arrangements. Our focus on regulatory compliance and forward-thinking solutions enables us to optimize outcomes in an evolving financial landscape.
Real Estate
Our real estate practice advises sponsors, institutional investors, developers, retail operators and financial institutions across the full life cycle of complex property transactions, with particular depth where real estate, fund structuring and capital markets intersect. We handle acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and corporate reorganizations of portfolios; we structure, register and capitalize FIIs, FIPs and other collective investment vehicles, advising managers and administrators on regulations, related-party rules, asset contributions and public offerings; and we act on securitization transactions backed by real estate receivables (CRIs). In shopping centers, our experience covers greenfield development and expansions, condomínio and co-ownership structures, as well as portfolio consolidation and the contribution of interests to listed and private funds.