If your organization is in need of a local representative, we will be able to help supplying full solutions, since the definition of the target, through planning and final implementation, inherent to the following areas:

Corporate Work

  • Legal counseling on corporate transactions in general
  • Company formation
  • Joint ventures and consortia formation
  • Purchase and sale of corporate holdings, assets and commercial enterprises
  • Planning, feasibility studies and implementation of corporate restructuring, including mergers, spin-offs, amalgamations, transformations, liquidations and other corporate undertakings
  • Participation in corporate general and administrative meetings to represent and defend clients’ interests
  • Examination of corporate documentation.

National and International Contracts

  • Advice to domestic and foreign companies regarding drafting, examination, review and negotiation of local and international contracts
  • Purchase, sale, supply, distribution and commercial representation contracts, computer science, technology transfer, technical assistance, licensing of trademarks and patents, cost sharing, franchising, amongst others
  • Preparation and follow-up on registration proceedings at the Central Bank of Brazil concerning investments in cash or assets, loans, profit remittances, conversion of credits into investments, capital repatriation, amongst others
  • Examination of contracts and obligations

International Law and Commerce

  • Looking for the presentation of Dauglish Trade Agent.
  • Advising on international transactions and foreign trade, including the import and export of goods.
  • Advising and planning international operations and negotiation.
  • Assistance with the registration of investments/loans and authorization from the Central Bank of Brazil.
  • Advising on the repatriation of investments and profits remittance.
  • Legal assistance to companies investing in Brazil, and Brazilian companies investing in other countries.
  • Assistance and representation in arbitration procedures between Brazilian and foreign companies.
  • Consultation in relation to the applicable laws on transactions and dealings.

Computer Science Aspects

  • Advise companies on assemble of sites, contents, protection of domain name, protection of privacy (hackers and spams), topics of interest regarding e-commerce (unfair competition, wrong advertising, etc), licenses of use, amongst others.
  • Elaboration of electronic contracts, software license contracts, trademark license contracts, amongst others.
  • Advise telecommunications company (jobs, taxation, contracts and bid process, amongst others).

Ecology Aspects

  • Counseling to facilitate corporate compliance with federal, state and municipal environmental protection legislation
  • Liaison with government departments in charge of legal compliance

Real Estate Transactions/Conveyancing

  • Consultation, drafting and review of deeds and contracts for purchase and sale of urban and/or rural properties, real estate developments, shopping centers (malls), amongst others
  • Action at real estate registries and public agencies, in order to formalize the purchase and sale of real properties
  • Examination of real estate documentation

Tax Consultancy/Planning

  • Studies and planning regarding to the best way to organize companies to take advantage of tax savings
  • Studies, examination and drafting legal opinions of federal, state and city hall laws regarding the legality and application to companies and respective employees (expats and/or legal representatives)
  • Assistance with tax proceedings, and filing of defenses and appeals against deficiency notices, as well as consultations, application for special tax rulings, and so on
  • Assistance of legal proceedings for petitions (tax lawsuits)
  • Interface with the controller to check contingency cases, risk, and drafting reports
  • Examination of tax aspects in general

Labor and Social Security Aspects

  • Consultations regarding all aspects of labor and social security law
  • Examination and drafting employment contracts
  • Defense in administrative proceedings involving labor-related claims filed by agencies
  • Defense in court proceedings involving labor-related claims and suits filed by employees or unions
  • Advice and preparation of documentation needs to obtain permanent or temporary visas for expats
  • General

Consumer Relations

  • Preventive action in conflicts between product and service suppliers and consumers
  • Drafting or review of commercial and rendered services agreement, as well as of advertising copy and package information to conform to the Consumer Protection Code

Public Bids

  • Looking for the presentation of Bidding & Bidder.
  • Legal Advice
  • Examination of documentation ensuring compliance with public notice stipulations
  • Participation in opening bid envelopes meetings, customer defense (oral manifestation, presentation of features, etc).

Due Diligence Investigations

  • Preparation of due diligence reports for companies purchasing or transferring concerning corporate documentation, labor aspects, obligations in general with third parties, assets and/or commercial establishments, contingencies, etc
  • Preparation of civil, labor and tax report for contingencies concerning purchase/sale of corporate holdings, assets and commercial enterprises

Paralegal Service

  • Company registration at government entities and instrumentalities, registers of deeds and documents, federal, state and city hall compliance monitoring boards
  • Legalization of domestic and/or international documentation
  • Follow-up on administrative and judicial proceedings, involving civil, commercial, labor and tax matters, updating attorneys as to case status

Litigation

  • Assistance with all areas of law practice, such as contractual disputes, civil liability for illicit acts, real estate, copyrights, proof of credits in bankruptcies and composition with creditors, tax judgement execution, divorce, alimony, wills, corporate criminal proceedings, etc

Consultancy in General

In addition to the fields above presented and, always bearing in mind the cost-benefit balance, our performance may have advisory and preventive character, developing papers of analysis and consequent legal opinion, involving all mentioned segments.
It’s Important to point out the genuine guidance given to customers, offering them means, under legal opinion, for the set up of their enterprises, providing them with the best option to meet their expectations.

Intellectual Property

  • Advising on matters related to trademarks, patents, franchising, know-how, technology transference, licensing, technical assistance and software.
  • Advising in the area of copyrights.
  • Advising in the area of rights to image.
  • Consulting in the area of electronic commerce (e-commerce) and Internet.
  • Drawing up of, advising on and negotiation of contracts related to intellectual property and new technology.