Brazil

Firm overview

DLA Piper’s office in Brazil is based in São Paulo. The office acts as a foreign legal consultancy practice working under U.S. and New York state laws to serve Brazilian and international companies with cross-border matters, providing legal counsel on a wide range of matters throughout the Americas, and the globe. DLA Piper's global network of offices provides clients with integrated legal services across borders. They focus on building long-term relationships with their clients, understanding their business goals, and providing strategic legal advice to help them succeed in a rapidly changing and competitive global marketplace.

Navigating complex international cross-border legal and business landscapes is the focus of the team, providing seamless, comprehensive international legal and business solutions. The team in Brazil is multilingual and multicultural, representing clients on local and cross-border matters, including mergers and acquisitions, banking, project financing, capital markets, financings, compliance, antitrust, disputes, and other practice areas. The attorneys bring over 30 years of experience, many natives to Brazil, with vast personal networks built over decades in business with first-hand knowledge of Brazil’s and Latin America’s legal and political intricacies. The lawyers and business teams are fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish, German and French, amongst other languages, focusing on years of service to clients with business matters and interests in Brazil, Latin America and worldwide.

The US-Brazilian team is part of the US-Latin America practice. DLA Piper in Latin America’s Team offers full-service business legal counsel to US and global companies with interests in and operations throughout the region.  With over 400 lawyers practicing throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico, in addition to our US-based cross-border attorneys, our team works with clients throughout every country in Latin America and help connect Latin America to the world.

The Latin America Practice is led in the US from Miami, with our US based team of multicultural and diverse cross-border practitioners regularly acting as lead counsel on a wide range of matters across sectors in the US and Latin America.

Firm overview

Pinheiro Neto Advogados is a Brazilian, independent and full-service firm specialising in multi-disciplinary deals, and was the first Brazilian law firm to specialise in corporate clients. Over more than 80 years, the firm translates the Brazilian legal environment for the benefit of local and foreign clients.

With clients in almost 80 countries, the firm has grown organically, and developed a distinctive, tight-knit culture, with a low associate-to-partner ratio. With a focus on innovation, the firm has kept its competitive edge throughout the years, and is widely hailed as a beacon of the Brazilian legal market.

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

Demarest is one of the most renowned law firms in Brazil and ranks among the largest firms in Latin America. Throughout its history, providing services in the most diverse practice areas of law, Demarest has always maintained a commitment to providing legal services of the highest standards of quality and excellence.