Who we are
The firm
Some decisions are a matter of figures and of law at the same time. A corporate reorganisation that changes the group's tax burden. A tax assessment that ties up cash. A long-term contract signed under rules that will change before it expires. An import held at customs, with the cost running by the day. This is the kind of matter the firm has been taking on for more than ten years.
Fourteen practice areas are gathered into five practice groups. The division is internal, and it exists precisely so that no one has to get it right from the outside: the import held at customs is rarely only a customs matter — it is usually a tax and a contract matter at once, and it arrives whole, the way it happened. Each group answers for the entire subject, not for a part of it.
The five locations follow the geography of the operations advised. The head office is in Rio de Janeiro, with offices in Espírito Santo, São Paulo and Itajaí — the latter in the main port complex of Santa Catarina, where foreign trade and customs matters are daily work. Miami serves clients residing in the United States, and there any question governed by foreign law is conducted with firms licensed in each jurisdiction.
Method
Four principles that organise the work
The decision precedes the document
The work begins with understanding the operation and what is at stake. The legal instrument follows from that reading; it is not the starting point.
Alternatives, with the cost of each
A legal question rarely allows only one path. The firm sets out the available options, the risk attached to each and what changes in practice between them.
Verifiable language
Legal opinions and reports are written to be read by those who decide. Technical terms are used when necessary and explained when they may create ambiguity.
Prevention alongside litigation
The same teams that structure the operation act when it is challenged. What is learned in litigation returns to the drafting of the next contract.
Presence
Where the firm is
Contact the team
A first conversation serves to frame the question: what is at stake, what has already been decided and what can still be decided.