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Areas of Practice

With a specialised team, we serve our Brazilian and international clients in the most varied demands of the corporate, financial and agricultural sectors.

Foreign Investments in Brazil and Brazilian Capital Abroad

Derivatives

Agribusiness and Commodities Finance

Trade finance

Debt Restructuring

Contracts

Corporate finance

Due Diligence

Crypto Assets

Foreign Exchange

Regulatory

Foreign Investments in Brazil and Brazilian Capital Abroad

We advise on the key areas for foreign investors in doing business in Brazil: remittances abroad and entrance of funds from abroad in accordance with the applicable rules of the Brazilian foreign exchange market regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil, investment models and vehicles, advice to specific sectors that are essential to foreign investors such as agribusiness, financial, corporate, real estate and international trade markets. We also have partners who help us in the tax, labour and environmental areas. We advise our clients on the regulatory aspects and foreign exchange rules of the Brazilian legislation applicable to Brazilian capital abroad. We also have international partners specialized in wealth planning and investments abroad.

Derivatives

We advise on the preparation, review, negotiation and formalization of derivative instruments of the most diverse types in the Brazilian (Contrato Global de Derivativos – CGD and others) and international markets. We advise on the negotiation of ISDAs and other derivative instruments governed by foreign laws jointly with international lawyers, to mediate the negotiation and formalization of these complex instruments between foreign legal departments with counterparties in Brazil.

Agribusiness and Commodities Finance

Forestry/timber investments, Rural Product Certificates (Cédulas de Produto Rural – CPRs) with Financial Settlement (syndicated and bilateral operations), rural credit operations regulated by the Central Bank of Brazil, commodity financing with Agricultural Deposit Certificates and Agricultural Warrants (CDAs WAs) and Rural Product Certificates (CPRs), local and cross border financial operations with agribusiness credit instruments, barter, purchase and sale of rural properties, commodity purchase and sale agreements, financing related to the international flow of commodities, rural leases, agricultural partnerships, collateral monitoring agreements, free lease agreements (comodato), deposit agreements.

Trade finance

Syndicated loans and financing operations involving export prepayments, agribusiness credit instruments such as Export Credit Certificates (Cédulas de Crédito à Exportação), Export Credit Notes (Notas de Crédito à Exportação), collateral sharing agreements and issuance of legal opinions, structured import financing operations, standby-letters of credit, commercial letters of credit, cross border financial operations and regulation of the Brazilian foreign exchange market.

Debt Restructuring

Pre-litigation debt renegotiation, guarantees’ additions and sharing with a strategic view in relation to the Bankruptcy and Corporate Recovery Law, debt confession, giving in payment of urban and rural properties with advice on the sale of these properties by the accounting register of non-usable goods (BNDU) of financial institutions, credit assignments.

Contracts

Commercial agreements, banking contracts such as Bank Credit Notes (CCBs), Advances on Foreign Exchange Contracts (ACCs) and Advances on Foreign Exchange Delivered (ACEs), Agribusiness Letters of Credit (LCAs), derivatives, securities intermediation contracts, real estate purchase and sale agreements, international financial contracts with foreign creditors and multilateral credit agencies, personal guarantees, security agreements, BNDES on-lending agreements, term sheets, rendering of service agreements, memorandum of understandings, confidentiality agreements, share purchase and sale agreements, investment and shareholder agreements, engagement letters, among others.

Corporate finance

Issuance of debentures, Real Estate Receivables Certificates (CRIs), Agribusiness Receivables Certificates (CRAs), Agribusiness Credit Rights Certificates (CDCAs), among others, including due diligence of the issuing company and of the assets given as collateral for the issuance.

Due Diligence

Due diligence for the constitution of real estate security agreements and for the sale of credit portfolios, including distressed assets.

Crypto Assets

We advise our clients on the regulatory aspects and rules of the Brazilian foreign exchange market applicable to transactions involving crypto assets, revisions of international product manuals to adapt to Brazilian legislation.

Foreign Exchange

Regulation of the Central Bank of Brazil in the foreign exchange market, issuance of opinions from the perspective of foreign exchange rules for specific operation structures, international remittances, payment orders.

Regulatory

Regulation of the Central Bank of Brazil and the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission for financial and similar institutions, legal advice to foreign investors for the purposes of foreign direct investment, external credits and investments of foreign investors in the financial and capital markets in Brazil.

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