Corporate, Business Restructuring and Recovery

• Setting up and structuring corporations;

• Legal audits;

• Legal strategies and administrative or judicial measures to reorganize debts;

• Judicial recovery of Corporations;

• Corporation and Partnership Bankruptcies.
  Finacial, Banking, and Capital Market

• National and International financial operation planning;

• Project Finance;

• Capital Market, Investment Funds Securitizing in general. Private and Public receivables funds;

• Consultancy on banking services in general.
  Tax and Fiscal

• Fiscal and Tax Consultancy and Planning for federal, state and municipal taxes;

• Permanent advisory for guidance and solution of tax issues;

• Consultancy and securing of tax, fiscal, or public financial incentives or benefits;

• Drafting of legal and tax inquiries;

• Administrative litigation, especially as to refutation and correction of tax assessments, tax posting notes; fiscal statements, outstanding debt posting; administrative appeal proposals, defense before Taxpayer Coucils and the Higher Financial Administration;

• Judicial litigation in general, especially in tax collection proceedings, court injunctions, declaratory, annulment, and recovery of unduly paid debt actions;

• Preparation, follow-up and legislative advisory on tasks legislation bills at federal, state and municipal levels.
  Labor

• Legal consultancy for Human Resources management and for implementing quality and corporate governance systems;

• Legal Advisory on collective negotiations;

• Labor Litigation.
  Economic, Competition and Foreign Trade

• Consultancy and Advisory on economic and competition law;

• Customs and port, airport, and transportation operations;

• Customs regulations and analysis of tariffs and non-tariff barriers;

• Contracts, insurance and negociations in general, concerning Maritime/River, Airborne, Land and Multimodal freight services.
  Contracts, Consumer, and Data Protection

• Consultancy and Advisory on contract drafting in general, integrate to the corporate, financial and backing sectors;

• Special advisory on contracts regarding consumer rights.
  Intellectual Property and Technology

• Consultancy and Advisory for diligence, choice, protection, trademark, registration, patents, industrial design, geographic indication software, copyrights, domain name, slogans and advertising expressions in Brazil and overseas;

• Drawing up, analysis, negotiations and contract annotation involing licenses and assignment of intellectual property rights, including supply of technical services and franchises;

• Legal structuring of contracts and competitive market strategies by means of registered.
  Sports and Entertainment

• Setting up of companies for administrative management of clubs, investment funds and partnerships;

• Corporate restructuring of sports and cultural entities, including setting of standards for associations, federations and confederations, championships, tournaments, contests and other sports or cultural activities;

• Sponsorship contracts and licensing contracts for brand usage and other kinds of intellectual or personal rights typical of sports and os general entertainment activities;

• Consultancy on, and structuring of legal models for the securing of tax benefits for sports and culture, as well as public and private funding for these sectors.

  Insurance and welfare

• Consultancy and Advisory on insurance and welfare issues;

• Administrative and judicial litigation on insurance.
  Real Estate

• Consultancy and Advisory on urban and rural real estate negotiations;

• Planning, construction and real estate contracts, including Reality Funds;

• Incorporations, land parceling, setting up condominiums, land development;

• Real Estate integration for industrial and enterprise projects.
  Regulatory

• Consultancy and Advisory on transportation, basic sanitation, and waters, electric power, telecoms, petroleum, gas, and mining;

• Advisory on corporate operations and reorganizations, mergers, acquisition and joint ventures for companies due diligence;

• Consultancy on projects involving tenders, concessions and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP’s);

• Securing of licenses, authorizations, permissions or concessions with public entities and regulatory agencies either in tender proceedings or not;

• Administrative (Regulatory Agencies and government bodies) as well as judicial litigation at all sectors and at federal, state and municipal levels.
  Environment, Sanitation and Urban Development

• Consultancy and Legal Advisory on Environment and Urban Development Law;

• Legal consultancy on drawing up investment strategies on environmental and urban development matters, especially on exploitation of private or public assets bearing environmental sanitation;

• Advisory on drafting of Master Plans and other environmental and urban development standardizing instruments (such as EIA/RIMA, Neighborhood Impact Studies, etc.).

• Administrative and judicial litigation at levels and overseas.
   Consultancy, Advisory and Litigation for government and non-government bodes

• Consultancy and Legal Advisory for national and foreign government bodies, with special emphasis on the Mercosur and the European Community;

• Consultancy and Advisory on Financial Law applied to Public Finances. Fiscal Liability Law consultancy and litigation within the Accounts Courts, Chambers, Assemblies and National Congress; the Public Attorney’s Office and the Judicial Power;

• Public service rate restructuring, also within the scope of Regulatory Agencies and government executive agencies;

• Advisory on litigation to government and non-government bodies.
  Corporate Penal

• Preventive consultancy on criminal financial and tax matter;

• Counseling and defense of clients in police inquests and criminal proceedings in general concerning tax, financial or environmental matters.
   Litigation and Arbitration

• Administrative and judicial litigation at all areas of office action, at the federal, state and municipal levels;

• Corporate litigation for companies bearing great numbers of suits

• Acting as arbiter os as counsel in commercial arbitration, civil, consumer, labor suits and the like.
   Municipal Consultancy and Advisory

• Restructuring of financial and tax legislation.

• Consultancy in the development of fiscal procedures and outstanding debt.

• Training

• Administrative and judicial litigation

• Advisory for representative bodies

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   China and German Desk 

Aiming to intensify the relationship between Brazil several relevant markets, Ribeiro, Almeida e Freeland created specialized service for Chinese and German clients focusing on a given country or market. A fraction of this effort consists in entering into strategic partnerships with local firms. The support provided by such local partners include rendering of general legal services within its territory as well as assisting the Clients in negotiations, obtaining licenses and registrations from local authorities, tax planning, international contracts, foreign trade collections, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and project finance.
 
 
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