Taxation

• Tax foreclosure
• Tax incentives and loans
• Tax planning
• Renegotiation of tax liabilities
• Government bonds

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Internet

• Counseling clients on the legal effects of e-business transactions
• Counseling companies in contract drafting and negotiation
• Purchase and sale of assets or services online (e-commerce)
• Hosting and domain agreements

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Intellectual Property

• Trademark, patent, and technology and service license agreements
• Copyrights, contracts for literary editions and use of image
• Drafting, implementation and negotiation of franchise agreements

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Business

Contract analysis, drafting and review, such as in:
• Technical assistance
• Business contracts: corporate, banking, partnerships, franchises and commercial lease
• Manufacture, supply
• Factoring
• Services
• Business agency, distribution and mediation
• Insurance
• Maritime, air and land transportation

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Consumer

• Pursuance of cases involving compensation claims and motions
• Counsel in contract drafting
• Dealing with quality-monitoring agencies – PROCON [Consumer Protection Agency], INMETRO [National Institute of Metrology, Standards and Industrial Quality], IPEM [Institute of Weights and Measurements] and Department of Economic Law
• Guidance in consumer relations

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Business Criminal

• Assistance in avoiding and curbing fraud
• Environmental crimes
• Economic and tax crimes
• White collar crimes – Financial System
• Bankruptcy crimes
• Crimes under the Consumer Code
• Crimes related to the Internet and the information technology law
• Intellectual Property, Trademarks and Patents

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Family and Probate

Family:
• Adoption
• Dispute of custody and visitation regime
• Divorce and marriage annulment
• Paternity investigations
• Prenuptial agreements
• Petition for child support, revision and exoneration
• Equity protection
• Judicial acknowledgment of stable union and cohabitation agreements
• No-fault and litigious separations
• Custody and guardianship

Probate:
• Regular and simplified probate proceedings
• Succession planning
• Wills

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Real Estate

• Counsel in real estate transactions such as purchase, sale, donation, lease and leasing of property, partnership, exchange, development and parceling of real estate
• Real estate audits in order to appraise real estate equity from a legal standpoint
• Creating a condominium
• Condominium issues
• Rectification of Real Property Registration, usucapio, possessory and expropriation actions

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Corporate

• IOPs – Initial Public Offerings
• Acquisition and divestment of corporate equity and assets
• Organization of business companies, non-profit entities, “consórcios” (pooling of funds for purchasing property), foundations, associations and NGOs
• Disputes between partners
• Consolidation, acquisition, split-up and merger
• Corporate restructuring

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Labor law and Social Security

• Counsel in programs for environmental risk prevention, medical control and occupational health
• Counsel in contracting foreign workers and obtaining visas
• Preventive counsel to Human Resource Departments
• Assistance in collective bargaining agreements
• Counsel in administrative and judicial litigations
• Labor audit
• Consulting and representation for employers and employees in court and at unions
• Drafting and review of employment contracts
• Legal opinion
• Representation of individual and entities in administrative proceedings before the Ministry of Labor and Employment, the National Social Security Institute and Caixa Econômica Federal (Federal Savings Bank)

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Environmental

• Analysis of Environmental liability
• Judicial defense in environmental matters
• Obtaining registrations with the proper environmental agencies

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Banking

• Bank loans and between related companies
• Structuring loan, financing and guarantee agreements
• Structuring financial transactions for sale of assets
• Import and export financing
• Security Interest and Personal Guarantees
• Foreign investments
• Domestic and international leasing
• Currency Exchange, Hedge, Swap, Derivative and Futures Market Transactions
• Central Bank Regulations
• Renegotiation of debts of companies in financial difficulties

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Civil

• Debt collection
• Surety, pledge and other guarantees
• Compensation for pecuniary and non-pecuniary (moral) losses and damages
• Recovery of credits and assets
• Civil liability for wrongful acts
• Professional Liability

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Contracts

• Contracts

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