Areas of Expertise

Capital Markets

  • Advice and assistance to brokers, distributors and financial institutions, among other entities of the market.
  • Advice and assistance in securitization transactions of the types of CRIS, CRAS, FIDCS or debentures.
  • Advice and assistance in the preparation and follow up of consultations to CVM, Central Bank, B3, BSM, ANBIMA, among others.
  • Preparation of memoranda and legal opinions in matters of capital markets.

Corporate Governance

  • Advice and assistance in the structuring and implementation of several levels of corporate governance.
  • Advice and assistance to independent committees and to boards of directors.
  • Preparation of memoranda and legal opinions in corporate governance related matters.

Corporation Law

  • Advice and assistance in the structuring and setting up of companies, including limited liability companies, publicly or privately held companies.
  • Advice and assistance, in several ways, in corporate organization or reorganization.
  • Advice and assistance in the negotiation and execution of investment agreements, joint-venture agreements, shareholders´ agreements and other agreements, whether related to the ones mentioned above or to any other kind of agreements within the corporate area.
  • Preparation of memoranda and legal opinions in corporate matters.

Dispute Resolution

  • Participation, as lawyers, in mediation or arbitration proceedings or judicial litigation, to preserve or restore the interests of the clients in the most effective way.
  • Participation, as arbitrators, in domestic and international arbitration procedures, especially in the cases which involve discussions resulting from M&A transactions or capital markets aspects.
  • Advice and assistance in the preparation of agreements with complex clauses on dispute resolution.
  • Preparation of memoranda and legal opinions related to arbitration.
  • Participation, as expert witness, in arbitration or judicial proceedings.

Enforcement of Securities’ Regulations

  • Preparation of answers, defenses and appeals within the scope of administrative proceedings, including enforcement proceedings, before ANBIMA, Central Bank, B3, BSM, CVM and CRSFN.
  • Advice and assistance to participants of the market in the interface with ANBIMA, Central Bank, B3, BSM, CVM and CRSFN, in all stages of the respective administrative proceedings, including enforcement proceedings.

Investment Funds

  • Advice and assistance in the structuring, establishment and amendment of regulations of structured funds, as well as in the negotiation and definition of their main characteristics.
  • Advice and assistance to managers, administrators, renderers of services and unitholders in the adequacy and compliance to the rules and regulations of CVM.
  • Support and consulting in the relationship with CVM, B3, ANBIMA, unitholders and other stakeholders.
  • Advice and assistance to unitholders, issuers, investment funds and intermediaries in the presentation of public offerings.

Merger and acquisitions

  • Advice and assistance to domestic or foreign clients in M&A and private equity transactions, either on the buy or on the sell side.
  • Advice and assistance in the structuring of the procedure for fund raising with domestic and foreign investors.
  • Preparation of memoranda and legal opinions in matters related to M&A transactions.

Public Companies

Advice and assistance to publicly-held companies, to its stakeholders or administrators in all aspects related to the compliance with the rules and regulations issued by CVM, B3 and ANBIMA.