Tax Law

Formed by specialized professionals, our tax law team is prepared to offer clients efficient solutions, either in an advisory or litigious manner, aiming at reducing tax burdens.

We work in an integrated manner with the other teams in the firm, therefore the client obtains complete guidance, both to solve demands and to plan improvements since Tax Law is a strategic area for business.

Main activities:
· Administrative and judicial defenses
· Recovery of amounts (restitution of undue payment)
· Legal opinions
· General tax administrative procedures
· Tax enforcement actions

Third Sector

Our specialty in the practice of law regarding the Third Sector includes assistance to Associations, Foundations, and Social Organizations. Our practice encompasses especially charitable and hospital entities of recognized excellence that devote part of their activities to the benefit of society and the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde – SUS).

Main activities:
· Participation in “Public Hearings”
· Qualification process as a Social Organization (OS)
· Legal guidance for philanthropic hospitals’ daily routines
· Accountability and defense in the Court of Accounts
· Obtainment of CEBAS-Health
· Incorporation of companies and associations

Public Law

Our Public Law team acts with a special emphasis on guiding clients in activities that involve the government, assisting in bidding processes and administrative or judicial demands, and in cases involving administrative improbity, expropriation, and easements.

The expertise of our professionals guarantees our clients efficient and less costly solutions.

Main activities:
· Guiding and monitoring in biddings in general
· Legal guidance and defense in civil actions regarding liability for acts of administrative improbity
· Juridical instruction and judicial performance in actions of expropriation and easement of passage

Contractual Law

We count on a highly specialized team to advise and offer clients guidance and innovative solutions in the various aspects that involve the contractual phases of a business. Our assistance comprehends the most varied business sectors, aiming at legal security, agility, and clarity for those involved.

Our professionals are also prepared to meet the contractual needs of new business models, especially considering the celerity of information and advertising in the digital environment. We possess the expertise to assist and aid in negotiating and drafting contractual instruments involving digital influencers.

Main activities:
· Analysis and drafting of contracts for the provision of services, partnerships, commercial representation, and leases
· Sale and purchase agreements for barters, leasing, and lending
· Preparation and review of contracts for the provision of virtual advertising, sponsorship, collaborations and agency services
· Contractual structuring of events

Corporate Law

Present since the firm’s foundation, our corporate practice has outstanding representation and a specialized team that deals with various nuances that involve corporate relations. Due to its complex nature, our performance, both in the judicial and advisory spheres, is focused on the adoption of means that prevent disputes and maximize positive outcomes in legal actions.

This is why we guarantee an integrated work since we count on the participation of other practice areas of the firm to provide a personalized and thorough service. The team maintains the maximum degree of proximity with the client in order to monitor and meet the daily demands of the business, always led by a multidisciplinary and effective perspective of the work.

Main activities:
· Preparation of corporate acts and contracts (for business companies, non-business companies, civil associations)
· Formation and amendment of articles of incorporation and bylaws
· Elaboration of partners meetings and shareholders meetings’ drafts, quota purchase options, as well as partners and shareholders agreements
· Production of memoranda of understanding, confidentiality and secrecy instruments, internal regulations, authority policies
· Assistance in acquisitions, incorporations, mergings, spin-offs, and judicial and extrajudicial measures in matters related to corporate law
· Litigation involving corporate disputes
· Disputes over interpretation, compliance, review, validity, and duration of agreements

Digital Law and Personal Data Protection

The advancement of technology reflects in all areas of society, requiring a new perspective on legal relationships. Likewise, all areas of law are directly impacted by technology, with special influence on procedural and substantive law rules.

Our Digital Law team is prepared to meet and assist with the demands that arise from this new format of relationships, preventively guiding businesses in search of legal adequacy and legal security or assisting the client in obtaining the best result in legal proceedings.

In the field of data protection, the specialized team’s premise is to ensure that our client maintains business compliance with the legislation, so as to strengthen the credibility of its company with its customers, partners, and employees.

Main activities:
Digital Law:
· Actions for moral damages suffered in social media, such as dissemination of offensive or illicit content
· Actions for removal of illegal content
· Actions involving intellectual property in the digital environment, such as unfair competition

Personal Data Protection:
· Structuring and implementing the LGPD Compliance Plan
· Contract review and drafting from a personal data protection perspective

Civil Litigation

The professionals who work with Civil Litigation seek practical solutions, especially on what concerns highly complex lawsuits. The civil litigation team’s purpose is to maximize the possibility of success, optimize the results arising from a lawsuit, and even anticipate and prevent risks.

Based on strategic analysis, the team is able to map lawsuits and thus extract indicators for the prevention and early resolution of conflicts, generating value for clients by the application of targeted actions in their activities.

Main actions:
· Recovery and contestation of credits, including in collection actions, executions, judicial recoveries, and bankruptcies
· Disputes over interpretation, compliance, review, and validity of contracts
· Enforcement actions, collection actions, debt collection actions, and actions for declaration of nullity of legal transactions
· Judicial reorganization and bankruptcy actions for credit recovery
· Indemnity actions for moral damages
· Civil liability of individuals or the State

Real Estate Law

In this area we focus on advisory and civil litigation, aiming to provide security to our clients at the time of signing any deal concerning their properties, reassuring them in their transactions, or, eventually, seeking the repossession and receipt of defaulted credits quickly and efficiently.

Main actions:
· Legal guidance and litigation assistance involving construction deficiencies
· Possession and repossession suits
· Eviction suits
· Lease renewal actions
· Enforcement actions or collection of credits actions provided for in the lease agreement
· Lease agreements and BTS (Built to Suit)
· Due Diligence for real estate acquisition and development
· Sale and purchase agreements for barter and lending

Medical, Hospital and Supplementary Health Law

With years of experience and dedication in this area, our team provides comprehensive advice to hospitals and medical clinics, guiding them in their daily activities, aiming to reduce risks arising from consumer relations between the institution and the patient and ensure the robustness of suitable documents to support future judicial credit recoveries.

The specialized knowledge of our professionals offers clients complete and strategic solutions that contribute to their business. The team has the expertise to follow organizational and governance processes that legally impact the activities of our clients, and to defend actions arising from medical errors and disputes with health plans.

Main actions:
· Preventive guidance to health professionals, hospitals, and clinics. Our assistance involves adjusting the client’s conduct to the professional Codes of Ethics and Consumer Protection
· Consultancy and legal action focusing on self-management operators, medical and hospital service providers
· Legal guidance regarding the routine of a hospital
· Legal guidance and defense in indemnity actions for alleged medical malpractice
· Acting in the nucleus of agreements
· Acting at Procon/CRM/ANS on behalf of clients
· Consultancy and legal action for individuals in supplementary health

Family and Successions

Our Family and Succession team handles demands involving family and succession relations in a comprehensive and efficient manner.

Our professionals are specialized and trained to offer a discreet service that meets our clients’ needs, especially when dealing with delicate and sensitive matters.

Main practice areas:
Family:
· Divorce actions, alimony (fixation, revisional, exoneration), division of assets
· Elaboration of antenuptial pacts, dating contracts, stable union contracts, contracts of inexistence of stable union, and dissolution of stable union
· Elaboration of wills and advance directives for wills
· Actions for paternity investigation
· Interdictions
· Custody and Visitation Regulation
· Public Powers of Attorney
· Instruments of Donation
· Arbitration of rent for the exclusive use of common property

Succession:
· Judicial and extrajudicial inventories
· Actions and extrajudicial procedures for partitions
· Actions for the opening, registration, and enforcement of wills
· Declaratory actions for nullity of testamentary clauses and assignment of inheritance rights

Wealth and Succession Planning

When dealing with issues involving family, assets, and succession, we believe demands should receive special care that aims to preserve and perpetuate legacies built over generations, in addition to bringing a sense of well-being to families and asset relations.

Therefore, we offer our clients the best solutions for the legal organization of their assets with the objective of avoiding costs, delays in inventory, and litigation and disagreements between heirs.

Main services:
· Analysis of documents, family relations, and personal intentions for estate planning
· Assistance with corporate restructuring with a focus on succession planning
· Implementation of the various instruments of estate planning

Labor Law

Our labor team is prepared to assist clients in a preventive or contentious manner, providing the most appropriate practices to conduct their business safely, in accordance with the laws and collective bargaining rules, aiming at avoiding judicial risks, in addition to working with excellence in legal actions in defense of our clients’ rights.

Main activities:
· Guidance on the client’s routine concerning stability, vacation, payments, and dismissals
· Review and adjustment of contracts already in force
· Guidance and technical performance to reach judicial and extra-judicial agreements
· Labor lawsuits

Consumer Relations

With expertise on several perspectives of consumer relations, the team is prepared to assist and advise suppliers and consumers, without conflicts of interest.

To guarantee the exercise of the business activity in a profitable and exponential manner and in compliance with the legislation, our experience and in-depth knowledge in the area allow us to accurately provide the client with an analysis on the potential risks involved in the matter, from which we extract the best practical solutions.

In the same measure, we assist consumers with an assertive conquest of rights guaranteed by law, in favor of the balance of the relationship.

Main Actions:
· Advice regarding the regulatory and consumer inspection agencies
· Assistance with indemnity actions due to addiction, obligation to comply with offers, debt unenforceability actions, and indemnity actions for moral damages
· Legal and preventive guidance on consumer conflicts