Brazil

Firm overview

Our working model brings together deep legal knowledge, enabling us to offer technological solutions tailored to the particularities and to the individual needs of the companies and institutions we serve.

From engagement to delivery, our aim is to develop solutions for the challenges faced by our clients, while enjoying solid respectability and spotless reputation with all tax authorities and tax environments throughout the country.

With a portfolio of longstanding clients in different fields of activity, we render our services through a process of continuous improvement, resting on the pillars of proximity to all our publics, development of integrated solutions, and boldness in innovation – underpinned by comprehensive knowledge of the relevant legal areas – and the performance of our activities with lightness, so as to maintain a constructive and pleasant climate for all our professionals, clients and commercial partners.

Firm overview

Marcos Martins Advogados is a law firm with outstanding expertise in Tax and Corporate. We are also strong in Dispute Resolution and Labour services.
Since its foundation in 1983, the firm has been committed to providing integrated legal solutions and resolving clients' legal challenges, both in preventive and contentious matters. We offer comprehensive, multidisciplinary legal services to clients, and provide day-to-day preventive advice, as well as full-service assistance in complex, demanding cases.

We are known for our performance based on technical excellence, knowledge of the business environment, agility, and straightforward manner.

The team is well known for its skills in structuring complex and strategic litigation and consultive cases and is specifically sought after by clients who require efficient, agile, and secure legal performance. The team’s multidisciplinary nature, combined with the seamless performance of its departments, ensures the firm's involvement in matters of national and international relevance.

The firm provides a distinguished approach in negotiations, especially in the resolution of legal disputes, with the aim of preventing and, if necessary, avoiding judicial proceedings.

The firm has a consolidated track record in risk analysis in corporate operations and the acquisition of credit portfolios, as well as in the issuance of legal opinions on the application of Brazilian civil and civil procedural law in international contracts.

In addition, the Department has considerable hands-on experience supporting clients with the development of their tax and corporate structures, providing custom-made solutions for various business models.

We are also frequently seen acting in complex due diligence, as well as analysing the procedures and strategies adopted in legal proceedings to assess the risks involved.
Furthermore, the team also undertakes matters in the judicial and administrative spheres to recover unduly paid taxes and monetise accumulated balances of tax credits, as well as providing assistance in developing corporate and tax planning models.

The firm's practice is outlined by a high commitment to ethical, social, and organizational values.

Firm overview

Recognized for its innovation and efficiency in various tax areas, Censoni Tecnologia Fiscal operates in the areas of agribusiness, capital markets, real estate, corporate, asset management and succession planning. We are also a firm whose legal hub for Tax and Fiscal Review presents excellent performance, assertiveness and speed in recovering credits for partner-client companies, offering them exclusive insurance to guarantee the operation.

Firm overview

Ayres Westin Advogados has been operating since 2012 with a clear purpose to go beyond traditional legal practice and act as true business consultants, offering our clients complete legal and business solutions for complex matters, provided by a highly specialized team that combines academic excellence and technical knowledge.

Being a firm with unparalleled expertise recognized by leading legal publications in the fields of Tax Law, Mediation, Arbitration, and Civil Litigation, and comprehensive practice in Corporate Law, our work goes far beyond providing simple advisory and planning. We bring together in-depth knowledge in the areas of Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Capital Market, Regulatory, International Commerce, among others, to offer true business consultancy to our clients.

With a service model focused on fully supporting our clients, we act as a true strategic partner in building and enabling business opportunities. We are committed to getting to know our clients in depth, understanding their operations, and adapting our services to the needs and evolution of each sector. This way, we can offer end-to-end solutions that go beyond the legal aspect.

Based on the vision of our partners, we offer highly specialized and customized solutions, combined with the structure and technology needed to meet the needs of the largest Brazilian companies and global companies operating in the country.

Firm overview

Martinelli Advogados is one of the most distinguished and innovative full-service law firms in Brazil, driven by excellence in services and reputation with a business perspective. Founded in 1997, the firm has expanded throughout strategic Brazilian cities, with a highly qualified technical excellence and quality legal services to satisfy its clients' needs. Different clients, different solutions, and because of that we always play on our client’s side providing personalised services.

We believe that our greatest asset is our people. That is the reason why we focus on constant training, development, and evolution, employing our best efforts to qualify our professionals, assuring that they have the skills to make things happen with efficiency, excellence, speed and compliance. Our daily purpose is to surpass our clients’ expectations. We seek to be long-term business partners to our clients, since intelligent and innovative solutions enable us both to grow together. What especially binds us to our clients is a close, personal and permanent relationship with them.
Our multidisciplinary team of more than 750 professionals includes lawyers, advisers, consultants, interns and paralegals, assuring that the client receives high-quality legal and advisory services in addition to a customised support provided in a deep understanding of our clients’ objectives.

The firm has also global reach, being part of an international network of independent firms and also having best friend alliances with worldwide local and global law firms, advising domestic and foreign clients in Brazil and also giving support to Brazilian companies in foreign jurisdictions.

The reflection of our alliance and commitment with clients allows us to be more interactive and closer to them in different locations throughout several cities in this country: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, Brasilia, Florianópolis, Joinville, Maringá, Caxias do Sul, Campinas, Criciúma, Chapecó, Cascavel, Passo Fundo, Riberão Preto and Sinop.

Social responsibility and pro bono
Martinelli has also a strong commitment to citizenship actions, demonstrated by our pro bono activities and by our Instituto Martinelli Solidariedade, the social arm of our firm, that recently completed 10 years of work, supporting countless entities and helping people to improve education, health conditions and social justice.

Since 2020, and renewed annually, Martinelli Advogados became a signatory member of the ODS SC National Movement, adhering to the UN Global Compact for Sustainable Development and Citizenship, assuming the responsibility of contributing to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Global Compact is a call for companies to align their strategies and operations with 10 universal principles in the areas of Human Rights, Labor, Environment and Anti-Corruption and develop actions that contribute to facing society's challenges. It is now the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 16,000 members, including companies and organizations, spanning 160 countries.

Firm overview

We understand Law as an instrument and a necessary means for the development and improvement of human and business relations. Through sophisticated legal knowledge, we seek to prevent and solve the problems encountered in business relationships, generating maximization of results to the client.

We act strategically in the planning and election of the best way, as well as in the interposition of appropriate measures and close follow-up of the cases, always seeking to reach the objectives that the client is asking for.

Our legal staff has experienced and specialized professionals. We choose the sectors of action within a strategy in which the knowledge developed are conjugated and used for a better quality of the services provided.

We operate in the following areas of law:
- Tax Law;
- Business Criminal Law;
- Compliance;
- Civil Law;
- Corporate Succession Law