Corporate and M&A
Our team is able to see beyond the confines of corporate law, calling on exceptional experience to make deals happen and find efficient legal solutions
A reference in Corporate Law and M&A since the firm was founded in 1995, we have played a role in the most significant mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings in Brazil, designing structures and establishing precedents that help shape the Brazilian market. Our multidisciplinary practice within the Corporate and M&A area allows us to offer more intelligent, integrated support to companies and investors, both national and international, in all phases of the business, from structuring projects to going public.
We take the same transversal approach in our work with the firm’s other practice areas, ensuring that our clients find what they need in our full-service firm. We help companies to make deals and to prevent problems, making use of our great experience to understand our clients’ real needs.
Our work with investors and companies of all types and sizes, both public and private, many operating in regulated sectors, has provided us with a well-tuned understanding of the multifaceted Brazilian market, and enables us to combine specialist expertise with a broader view of corporate issues, from routine to the most complex. Our specialized team includes attorneys who have worked in regulatory agencies, investment banks, and foreign law firms, acting in matters ranging from M&A, reorganizations, corporate disputes, commercial contracts, governance and securities regulations.
Our consolidated experience and excellence in the services we provide go hand-in-hand with our ability to innovate and our attention to business dynamics and transformations. Because our focus is always on our clients, we look for personalized, intelligent, and above all efficient solutions, adding value to our clients’ businesses that goes beyond the traditional legal practice.
What we do
- Mergers and acquisitions, public tender offers, IPOs and follow-on offers, leveraged buy-outs, hostile takeovers, distressed asset transactions, structuring of consortiums and joint ventures.
- Legal support for listed companies, including their boards of directors, executive management and advisory committees, in matters involving securities regulations, corporate governance and share transactions; advice on financial and capital markets regulation as a whole, including representation in enforcement proceedings before the CVM and other authorities.
- Negotiation and drafting of corporate and commercial agreements, including share purchase agreements, investment agreements, shareholder agreements, put and call options, memorandums of understanding, term sheets, and confidentiality agreements.
- Business combinations and corporate restructurings and reorganizations, such as mergers, consolidations, stock swap transactions, spin-offs, transformations and other types of corporate restructuring.
- Support for companies and shareholders in relation to shareholder meetings, proxy fights and other corporate events.
- Private equity and venture capital deals, advising enterprises and funds on strategic investments and divestments at all phases of their business.
- Advice to start-up companies and their investors since the early stages of the business and subsequent investment rounds.
- Corporate disputes between shareholders; disputes involving the potential liability of members of management; disputes arising out of mergers, acquisitions, and private equity and venture capital transactions; disputes involving the interpretation and application of business law.
- Stock-based long-term incentive programs for employees, directors and officers, such as stock option, phantom stock and restricted stock unit plans.
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