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
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.
Derivatives
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
Contracts
Corporate finance
Due Diligence
Crypto Assets
Foreign Exchange
Regulatory
Wealth, Succession and Tax Planning
We advise business families and individuals on organizing and protecting wealth across generations, with corporate, succession and tax solutions tailored to each client’s specific situation: family holding companies, governance protocols and shareholders’ agreements, lifetime gifts with protective clauses, wills, out-of-court probate proceedings, succession planning for family businesses, and structuring of marital property regimes and prenuptial agreements.
We monitor the impact of Brazil’s tax reform on family wealth, such as the progressive rates now applicable to the inheritance and gift tax (ITCMD), the new taxation of dividends, and the incidence of IBS and CBS on wealth-holding structures, providing succession tax planning aligned with current legislation and, above all, tailored to each client’s specific case.
We also advise on the transfer of tax domicile abroad: formal tax exit from Brazil, application of double taxation treaties, eligibility for special tax regimes, and the structuring of Brazilian investments abroad in accordance with current legislation, in partnership with qualified local law firms in each jurisdiction.
