Areas of expertise

With an international and national base of clients from various sectors of industry, including Brazilian and Foreign Shipowners, P&I Clubs, Insurers, Oil Drilling, Mining and Steel Mills corporations.

FOREIGN TRADE

  • Import and Export Consulting
  • Customs Duties
  • Tariff and non-tariff restrictions
  • Special Customs Regimes
  • Subsidies, safeguards and compensatory measures
  • Administrative and judicial litigation at all levels

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL CONSULTATIVE

  • Consultation and advice
  • Risk assessment and contractual and non-contractual responsibilities
  • Business and contract structuring guidance
  • Preventive or preparatory analysis of lawsuits, administrative proceedings, bidding, mediation and arbitration

CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL CONSULTATIVE

  • Trade and Civil Relations
  • Corporate differences
  • Automobile Concession Agreements
  • Indemnity for unlawful acts
  • Health insurance
  • Consumer Relations
  • Homogeneous Collective and Individual Diffuse Rights (environment, consumer, goods and rights of artistic, aesthetic, historical, tourist and landscape value)
  • Popular and Administrative Misconduct Actions
  • Public Inquiries and Civil Actions
  • Credit recovery (bankruptcy and foreclosure)
  • Ownership and ownership of real estate
  • Homologation and enforcement of foreign judgments, arbitration awards, execution of letters rogatory
  • Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPI)
  • Administrative and judicial litigation at all levels
  • Arbitration

Contracts

  • Preparation and analysis of civil and commercial contracts, among others
  • Supply contract
  • Distribution Agreement
  • Commercial Representation Agreement
  • Contract for services
  • Pledge agreement and public deed of purchase and sale of real estate
  • Mortgage Deed
  • Pledge agreement
  • Analysis of contract terms
  • Legal opinions on contracts and contractual arrangements
  • Contract Negotiation

ECONOMIC LAW AND COMPETITION

  • Analysis and drafting of opinions on contracts and business practices
  • Notification of acts of economic concentration
  • Presentation of representation, defense of defendants, follow-up of preliminary investigation and administrative proceedings
  • Advice on cases involving subsidies, safeguards, compensatory measures and dumping
  • Administrative and judicial litigation at all levels

BIDDING

  • Analysis of bids and monitoring of national and international bids
  • Assistance in preparing proposals
  • Preparation of judicial measures, challenges and administrative appeals

ENVIRONMENT

  • Consulting for the implementation of corporate environmental management systems and special project planning (ISO 14000 Certification)
  • Legal audit
  • Environmental licensing and environmental impact studies (EIA / RIMA) – guidance for obtaining and regularizing licenses and permits
  • Negotiation and remediation of environmental liabilities
  • Conclusion of terms of conduct adjustment with environmental agencies, Federal and State Prosecutors
  • Consulting and assessment of projects related to climate change, biodiversity and biotechnology
  • Advisory and preventive guidance for administrative and judicial litigation at all levels: administrative appeals, police inquiries; public civil inquiries; public civil actions and actions for damages for environmental damage