Brazil

Firm overview

Firm overview

We are a high-performance legal firm and a strategic partner that provides innovative solutions for complex problems.

We continue to rethink and challenge our own convictions and beliefs in order to practice law differently. We believe that innovation is vital to our ability to provide ever more assertive and effective legal solutions to Brazilian and foreign clients.

Our high-performance team combines its expertise in offering highly integrated, collaborative legal services that are renowned throughout the market. As the ideal strategic partner for anticipating trends and solving your most complex problems, our full-service model unites the best lawyers across more than 40 areas of the law.

We believe our professionals are vital to our business and that performance and well-being go hand in hand. That is why we prioritize a humanized approach to people management, caring for our people and developing their full potential.

For us, practicing law is a means, not an end. We stand for democratic access to justice, the defense of fundamental rights and have pioneered pro bono legal practice in Brazil, providing free legal services to civil society organizations with financial constraints and individuals in economically and socially vulnerable situations.

This is how we give back to society. This is how we drive transformation.

Firm overview

Machado Associados is a law firm with a leading international profile, as shown by many international transactions conducted since its foundation.

The M&A and Corporate services include: M&A transactions, structuring and restructuring business transactions, joint ventures, asset deals, sales of commercial establishments, and corporate reorganisations, and assistance for Brazilian companies to expand overseas by assessing the best legal structure, from a corporate, tax, labour and accounting standpoint.

Firm overview

TozziniFreire is a premier, full-service law firm that consistently provides legal services to domestic and international companies in a wide variety of business sectors.Along these years, we have played a major role in many of the most significant transactions in the Brazilian market, becoming one of the largest and most prestigious firms in Latin America.

We see ourselves as one cohesive entity and act accordingly. With fully-owned offices in several cities in Brazil, we are able to guarantee our clients the same outstanding services and one-firm resource throughout the country.This concept enables us to safeguard, every day, the firm’s culture, mission and values – which are the essence of who we are and what we do.

Our expertise has been consistently recognized by international and national specialized publications. TozziniFreire and its partners are regularly recognized and recommended as leaders in their field of practice.