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Expert Legal Services in Corporate, Environmental, and Mining Law - GTLawyers

Corporate / M&A

Under the expert coordination of partners Tamy Tanzilli, Anne-Catherine Brunschwig, and Carolina Moresco, GTLawyers’ Corporate Law and M&A practice offers a comprehensive suite of services, including:

• Business Incorporation: Formation of business companies, associations, and foundations.
• Corporate Structuring: Expertise in structuring cross-border transactions.
• M&A Advisory: Guidance on M&A restructuring, asset deals, mergers, spin-offs, takeovers, joint ventures, and special partnership companies.
• Legal Due Diligence: Comprehensive due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.
• Contract Management: Outsourcing of internal management of contracts and corporate acts, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating business agreements of varying complexity.
• General Corporate Advice: Legal guidance in corporate matters, management participation in general meetings, administrative body meetings, and other councils, including tax counsel.
• Regulatory Compliance: Coordination and execution of registrations with the Brazilian Central Bank, including long-term investments and financial operations.

Environmental - Litigation and Advisory

Our environmental law team, consisting of highly experienced experts, provides diverse consulting services, including audits and both administrative and judicial litigation. Key services include:

• Consultations and Legal Opinions: Drafting legal opinions or technical notes on environmental law issues.
• Due Diligence Audits: Assessing the compliance of enterprises and reporting on the legal status of assets, rights, and obligations.
• Regulatory Analysis and Advice: Assistance with administrative processes related to environmental licensing and resource usage.
• Agency Coordination: Monitoring and interacting with municipal and state environmental agencies, IBAMA, and ICMBio for licensing, grants, authorizations, and registrations.
• Administrative Defense: Drafting defenses and appeals against fines and penalties from federal, state, or municipal environmental agencies.
• Legal Instruments: Drafting terms of conduct adjustment and commitment terms related to the use of natural resources.
• Representation in Investigations and Actions: Representing clients in civil investigations and public civil actions related to environmental law.

Mining - Litigation and Advisory

Our mining law team consists of seasoned experts providing comprehensive consulting and administrative litigation support to mining companies. Key services include:

• Consultations and Legal Opinions: Drafting legal opinions and technical notes on mining law and mineral resource usage.
• Due Diligence Audits: Assessing compliance with mining undertakings and assisting in negotiations.
• Regulatory Analysis: Working with the National Mining Agency (ANM) and Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) to verify and regularize the legal status of mining enterprises.
• Administrative Defense: Representing clients in defenses and appeals against infringement notices by the ANM, addressing issues such as mining title expiry, application rejections, and area blocking.
• Contract Negotiation: Drafting legal instruments for the negotiation of mining rights acquisition, assignment, transfer, and lease of deposits.
• Representation in Investigations and Actions: Representing clients in civil investigations and public civil actions initiated by federal or state public prosecutors and negotiating conduct adjustments.

Comprehensive Banking Law Services - GTLawyers

GTLawyers’ Banking Law practice offers a comprehensive range of services designed to address the complex needs of financial transactions and operations. Our expertise includes:

• Securitization: Structuring and executing securitization transactions to transform financial assets into marketable securities.
• Foreign Loans and Project Finance: Facilitating foreign loans and providing legal support for project financing initiatives.
• Investment Funds: Advising on the creation, management, and regulatory compliance of investment funds.
• Warranties Structuration: Structuring and negotiating various types of financial warranties, including:
  • Sureties
  • Endorsements
  • Fiduciary assignments
  • Commercial and industrial pledges
  • Chattel mortgages

Our team is dedicated to delivering tailored legal solutions that meet the unique challenges of the banking and finance sector, ensuring compliance, and fostering successful financial operations.

Expert Real Estate, Registration, and Urban Law Services - GTLawyers

Our Real Estate Law practice at GTLawyers provides comprehensive legal services across various aspects of real estate transactions and development. Key areas of expertise include:

• Due Diligence: Conducting thorough legal due diligence for real estate acquisitions, focusing on urban, environmental, registrar, and regulatory aspects.
• Project Development and Approval: Providing legal advisory services for the development and approval of residential, commercial, logistic, hospitality, infrastructure, and urban development projects with relevant public agencies.
• Urban Requalification Projects: Offering specialized advisory services for urban requalification projects, including retrofits.
• Project Structuring and Registration: Structuring and obtaining records for real estate development projects, including the institution and specification of condominiums and allotments.
• Corporate and Tax Structuring: Advising on the corporate and tax structuring of investments in real estate development projects, including the constitution of SPEs, SCPs, real estate investment funds, and equity.
• Real Estate Finance: Providing advisory services to secure financing from public and private financial institutions.
• Construction Phase Assistance: Offering continued legal assistance during the construction phase until the delivery of the property to the final consumer, covering contractual, tax, labor, and consumer protection areas.
• Brokers and Real Estate Agents: Providing comprehensive advice, including secondment services.
• Land Regularization: Assisting with the land regularization of rural properties before competent agencies, including real estate registration, INCRA, and environmental agencies.
• Rural Real Estate Transactions: Handling real estate transactions involving rural properties, leases, rural partnerships, and foreign investments.

Labor and Union Law Services - GTLawyers

At GTLawyers, our team of highly qualified and experienced professionals is dedicated to assisting clients with all aspects of labor law. Our robust practice spans labor advice, labor litigation, and administrative proceedings. We provide legal counsel aligned with current court decisions and client goals to achieve optimal outcomes.

Our labor practice has been pivotal in some of the world's largest transactions in recent years, particularly in the pharmaceutical, energy, and banking sectors, representing both buyers/investors and sellers.

Our services include:

Labor Advice and Union Relations:

• Drafting legal opinions on labor, union, and social security matters.
• Preparing various labor documents, such as employment contracts, collective agreements, internal policies, bonus programs, variable remuneration plans, stock option plans, internal regulations, conduct policy manuals, and profit-sharing plans.
• Advising on practices to prevent harassment and moral damage complaints.
• Conducting legal due diligence for operations in Brazil and abroad.
• Advising on migration matters, including contracting foreigners to work in Brazil and Brazilians for overseas assignments (expatriates).
• Organizing workshops and seminars on significant labor issues.
• Structuring and executing strategies for labor negotiations, participating in round-tables and conciliation commissions, drafting and reviewing collective bargaining agreements, and advising on union assemblies and strike procedures.
• Representing companies and trade unions in collective bargaining.
• Managing outsourcing services and hiring suppliers and independent representatives.
• Handling the hiring and termination of employees and executives.
• Reviewing internal company policies.
• Evaluating labor liabilities.

Labor Litigation:

• Representing clients in labor litigation at all levels and locations.
• Providing pre-litigation advice to avoid labor complaints.
• Monitoring labor courts across Brazil.
• Drafting reports and updating internal client systems to facilitate the monitoring, evaluation, and management of labor liabilities.
• Preparing administrative defenses in labor matters and work security.
• Managing special lawsuits initiated by the Public Ministry of Labor (MPT) and other strategic cases with a dedicated team.

Comprehensive Intellectual Property Services - GTLawyers

GTLawyers' Intellectual Property practice offers comprehensive legal services to protect and enforce intellectual property rights. Our experienced team provides strategic advice and robust legal measures against the infringement of intellectual property rights.

Our services include:

• Trademarks: Assistance with trademark registration, protection, and enforcement.
• Software: Legal support for software licensing, protection, and compliance.
• Copyrights: Protection and enforcement of copyright rights.
• Domain Names: Management and protection of domain names.
• Corporate Names: Assistance with the registration and protection of corporate names.
• Technology Transfer Agreements: Drafting and negotiating technology transfer agreements.
• Intellectual Property Due Diligence: Conducting thorough due diligence to assess the status and value of intellectual property assets.

Civil, Arbitration, and Dispute Resolution Services - GTLawyers

Our team at GTLawyers boasts extensive experience in arbitral proceedings, high-complexity and high-value judicial lawsuits, and administrative proceedings. We focus on providing exceptional litigation services to national and international companies across various markets and industries. Our expertise includes:

• Commercial Disputes: Handling complex commercial disputes across different economic sectors.
• Consumer Law: Representing clients in consumer law cases, ensuring compliance and protecting consumer rights.
• Corporate Disputes: Resolving disputes within corporate entities, including shareholder and partnership disagreements.
• Real Estate Matters: Addressing diverse real estate disputes, including property development and transactions.
• Environmental Matters: Managing litigation and compliance issues related to environmental law.
• Judicial Recovery and Bankruptcy: Assisting clients with judicial recovery processes and bankruptcy cases.
• Collections: Handling general collection matters to recover debts and enforce financial obligations.
• Civil Liability: Addressing civil liability issues and defending clients against claims.

Our litigation practice is characterized by technical excellence and a deep understanding of our clients' businesses. We have a proven track record in automobile law, particularly in cases involving consumers versus manufacturers and dealers, including those under Ferrari Law (Federal Law 6.729/79). Our team has secured judicial and arbitral decisions that serve as benchmarks in these cases.

In addition to litigation, we provide consultation and legal opinions in civil matters to help clients avoid new judicial liabilities. We also assist clients in the negotiation and pre-litigation phases, offering alternatives to prevent administrative and judicial lawsuits.