Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

The legal assistance we provide encompasses everything from the commencement to the conclusion of complex and structured corporate reorganizations, acquisitions, consolidations, and spin-offs. Our team provides a close follow-up at all negotiation stages, surveying data, defining the transaction, drafting contracts and pertinent organizational documents until the conclusion of such transaction, issuing opinions and guiding the companies on all legal aspects involved. The corporate law team has a solid experience on providing legal assistance to Brazilian and international companies on attracting and making investments, shareholding transactions, and other transactions involving the purchase and sale of companies. We also engage in the provision of due diligence follow-up for sellers or purchasers, providing a broad service targeted at building the most efficient and safe solutions from the legal perspective for the obtainment of satisfactory transactions. In the corporate law area, the firm also provides continuous consultancy in the incorporation of companies and adjustment and drafting of organizational documents, registering amendments to contracts, company conversions, the admittance and dismissal of members, capital increased, among others. The firm is experienced in incorporating and structuring family companies for estate planning purposes, which encompasses from the planning and incorporation of family companies to the drafting of governance and estate management documents that enable an increase in the effectiveness and legal certainty of the concerned organization. The services provided by the firm in the corporate law area include the structuring and creation of investment funds, securitization transactions, the provision of legal assistance before the Securities and Exchange Commission – CVM, and the provision of follow-up on legal issues concerned in the manager-investor relationship.