Dear Sir,
It is with great pleasure that we introduce you our office.
We believe we may provide you with a view of the broad performance of Morais Advogados Associados presenting some information on its background, practice areas and composition.
We hope the information hereby offered brings you benefits and contributes to an even greater tightening of our relationships.
Morais Advogados Associados
About Us
Morais Advogados Associados, founded in 1993, has a large and acknowledged experience in serving public and private companies, businessmen, families and public and private agencies in a multitude of different law areas and in subjects of complex nature that require dedication of an expert professional endowed with technical knowledge, determination, creativity and enterprising profile.
Our firm is intensely involved in corporate law, focusing largely on legal counseling addressed to business structuring, reorganizations and company associations, commercial transactions, fiscal planning, corporate disputes and legal assistance in general to individuals and legal entities in the corporate areas, as well as in tax areas with management of tax liabilities, and labor, commercial, litigation, administrative, environmental, real estate and intellectual property areas, among others.
Morais Advogados Associados keeps a close relationship with law firms in the major cities of Brazil and in other countries, particularly in the State of Rio de Janeiro, in Porto Alegre, Paraná and in Portugal, in addition countries that integrate Mercosul.
The main purpose of the firm is to make the highest quality legal services available to our clients, helping them to find objective solutions for their matters of legal nature and to organize their business strategically in a practical and advantageous manner.
Therefore, the law firm has at its disposal expert professionals practicing in a number of law areas, acting in a coordinate manner in order to serve the several subjects under their responsibility in a quick and effective manner.
The firm does also count on the frequent collaboration of external consultants, extremely skilled, intimately related to the firm, thus contributing, in special cases, to leverage the grade of excellence the service requires.
The working proposal of Morais Advogados Associados is not restricted to solving their clients’ issues. The members of this law firm try, insofar as possible, to anticipate legal and social events, in order to update their clients on possible legal implications in their business, or even on opportunities that might provide them with financial, economic and tax benefits, plus reduction of other costs.
All the foregoing makes it possible for Morais Advogados Associados to render its clients an excellence and quality service, required in a competitive and globalized scenario.
Practice Areas
Business Law
Legal Counseling to companies rendering services and public works and companies authorized to provide public utilities services;
Preparation of administrative contracts;
Expert advisory services to interested companies, as regards regulatory matters and any pleadings with existing administrative agencies (ANEEL, ANATEL & ANP).
Banking and Economic Law
Creation, structuring and analysis of loan, financing and guarantee contracts;
Consulting to insurance companies and other financial institutions. Representation of such institutions with regulating agencies;
Representation of companies and financial institutions with the Central Bank of Brazil in administrative proceedings;
Operations involving public and private foreign debt securities;
Legal consulting services addressed to public administration agencies involving specific projects for restructuring of the infrastructure and investment sectors;
Renegotiation of debts and business reorganization.
Consumer Law
Preparation and analysis of operating manuals and contracts;
Guidance through specific matters taken to the knowledge of agencies in charge of the consumer protection, and follow-up of administrative and legal proceedings that involve claims and indemnification requests from consumers;
Guidance addressed to the relationship of consumers in the company’s different practice areas.
Criminal Law
We work with the Federal and State Courts focusing on corporate crimes belonging to the jurisdiction of a single judge, comprising also tax and environmental torts, civil arrest, mainly in hypotheses of negligent bailee, as well as in public civil inquiries (State and Federal Police) and in Congressional committees.
Family Law
Organization and planning of estate and succession;
Probate proceedings and follow-up;
Judicial separation / divorce (consensual or litigious);
Stable union – providing advice and guidance through questions and disputes concerning estate, as regards both the constitution of stable union and relatively to the dissolution thereof.
Real Estate Law
Evaluation of ownership and status of burden on urban and rural real estates;
Consulting addressed to real estate business practice, such as purchase and sale, exchange, payment in kind, mortgage formation, leases and organization of joint ventures to act in the real estate segment;
Advisory services for organization of hotels, hospitals, thematic parks, real estate takeovers, condominiums, land subdivisions, residential cooperatives and real estate consortiums;
Preparation and registration of instruments related to the foregoing business and enterprises at the relevant agencies;
Real Estate Audits.
International Law
Advisory services for the installation of economic enterprises in the Mercosul region, including the identification of the most appropriate location for the erection thereof, preparation of contracts and other instruments, procurement of real properties and identification of areas with the best tax incentives;
Advisory services to foreign companies interested in carrying out business operations with countries that integrate Mercosul’s economic block;
Consulting on tax nature issues, including taxation applicable to the entrance of foreign products in Mercosul;
Consulting in interpretation and application of rules and decisions edited by the several agencies that compose the Mercosul structure, as well as agreements entered into with other countries and economic blocks.
Corporate Law
Assistance in the organization of civil and business corporations, in the organization of consortiums, associations, foundations and partnerships;
Preparation of articles of incorporation and other corporate documents;
Corporate reorganization, including split-ups, mergers, takeovers and winding-up of companies;
Assistance in proceedings for opening and closing of capital and public tender for purpose of acquisition, disposal or exchange of stock or other securities with the capital markets;
Advisory services related to a number of corporate issues;
Representation of Shareholders in General Meetings and with invested corporations;
Practice of legal audit.
Labor Law
Preventive legal advice comprising preparation and analysis of labor agreements, benefit plans, such as those for profit and/or income participation and stock option plans;
Advisory services for the hiring of foreign employees, as regards adjusting labor contract, benefits and advantages to the Brazilian legislation;
Labor audit;
Representation of individuals and legal entities in labor litigations;
Representation of legal entities and union entities in collective bargaining;
Representation of individuals and legal entities in administrative proceedings with the Regional Labor Office and the Brazilian Social Security Institute.
Tax Law
Tax consulting services concerning taxation mechanisms related to the industrial, business, financial and service practice;
Tax consulting addressed to activities involving the supply of electric power, fuel and gas;
Advice for the structuring of transactions concerning acquisitions and disposal of investments, aiming at seizing opportunities for effective tax alternatives;
Advisory services for the implementation of industrial projects in general, involving negotiation of understandings with the States and Municipalities;
Representation of individuals and legal entities in tax administrative proceedings comprising the federal, state and municipal scope, as well as support in judicial litigation aiming at the defense of rights of individuals and legal entities.
Our Addresses
Head Office:
Avenida Pedroso de Morais, 1.619 - 4
th floor – Alto de Pinheiros
05419-001 – São Paulo, SP – Brazil
Tel./Fax: (+55 -11) 3813-8343
Móbile: (+55 11) 7445.7799
Associated Offices:
Brazil
Town Center - Rio de Janeiro – Rio de Janeiro
Town Center - Belo Horizonte - Minas Gerais
Bom Retiro - Curitiba – Paraná
Town Center - Porto Alegre – Rio Grande do Sul
Portugal
Lisbon
United States of America
Miami - Florida
Mozambique
Maputo
