The firm

Transactions cross borders; accountability does not. Contracts, exports and estates move from one legal system to another and, at each crossing, a rule changes: the competent court, the governing law, the tax due, the document required. The firm exists so that the crossing is handled by someone who knows both sides.

We are admitted to the Brazilian Bar, in the São Paulo and Federal District sections, and to the Portuguese Bar, at the Lisbon Regional Council. Whoever signs the work answers for it on both sides of the Atlantic, with no intermediaries and no hand-over at each border.

Before advising on one part of a transaction, we understand the whole of it: who the parties are, where the money goes, where the goods go, which authority examines each step. Only then is the opinion, the contract or the defence written, in language the client understands and can apply.

The firm sees legal practice as bespoke work, in the manner of tailoring: each matter is made by hand, for each client and for each occasion. One responsible lawyer personally conducts the work, assisted by associates in specific areas.

São Paulo, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro on one shore of the Atlantic; Lisbon on the other. The same matter is followed on both sides, with meetings in person in any of the four cities and remote follow-up by video conference, with electronic signature and filing in Brazil and Portugal.

Each end of a transaction is read under the law that governs it. We act for clients in Brazil, the European Union and the Middle East, in Portuguese, English, Spanish and Arabic, and follow transactions linking the three regions, particularly in the export of gold and other high-value goods.