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Novotny, Ney, Saldanha, Penna, Ponte, Vianna, Corrêa Advogados
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Novotny Advogados’ Corporate/Commercial practice, led by partners Paulo Penna and Gabriel Rios Corrêa, delivers strategic legal solutions across Corporate Law, Commercial Contracts, and M&A. The team advises clients in domestic and international matters with deep industry knowledge.
Corporate Law: The firm supports public and private companies, funds, partnerships, and associations across the full corporate lifecycle—structuring and incorporating entities, drafting corporate documents and governance policies, handling reorganizations (mergers, spin-offs, JVs), and representing shareholders in disputes. It also structures stock option plans, compliance policies, and registers foreign investments with Brazil’s Central Bank.
Commercial Contracts: Novotny assists clients from early-stage negotiations to execution and post-signing support. Services include drafting and reviewing all kinds of business contracts, including NDAs, MOUs, financing and distribution agreements, among many others.
M&A: The team advises on all stages of M&A transactions—drafting and negotiating deal documents, structuring tax-efficient operations, conducting due diligence, and handling post-closing issues.
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Novotny, Ney, Saldanha, Penna, Ponte, Vianna & Corrêa Advogados is a Rio de Janeiro firm with a sophisticated range of services in corporate law. The bench works on M&A, capital markets, investments and joint ventures deals for its clients.
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Novotny, Ney, Saldanha, Penna, Ponte, Vianna, Corrêa Advogados assisted Embrion Clínica de Reprodução Assistida with the structuring and negotiation of the expansion of its platform.
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Novotny's team is absolutely confident in managing complex transactions with sophisticated clients. Their responsiveness is one of the key strengths of the law firm.
The team demonstrates strong technical expertise, particularly in commercial contracts, with the ability to analyse documents in a structured way, identify key issues quickly and propose legally sound, business-oriented solutions. A key differentiator is that this expertise goes beyond a purely legal interpretation, as Novotny’s team understands the commercial and operational context, making their recommendations more practical and useful for decision-making.
Lawyers at Novotny demonstrate strong knowledge, experience, agility, competence and dedication. They adopt a constructive approach in negotiations, seeking solutions that help the client move transactions forward.
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Co-head of department, partner Paulo Penna assists clients from the finance sector with M&A, contracts and transactions.
Paulo Penna stands out for combining agility, strong analytical skills and a clear understanding of the business with an objective approach to complex matters. He demonstrates a high degree of consistency and pragmatism in his work.
Paulo Penna is always helpful, quick and skilful, conveying confidence.
Paulo Penna is an experienced, attentive, helpful and efficient professional.
Gabriel Corrêa is able to act on behalf of clients on corporate matters, including those dealing with M&A, corporate governance and joint ventures.
Gabriel responded promptly and provided detailed explanations for more in-depth discussions.
Gabriel Corrêa is a top practitioner with a strong understanding of business dynamics in M&A and private equity matters.
Gabriel Corrêa is highly competent and demonstrates strong mastery of the matters he handles.
Corporate/Commercial: Rio de Janeiro
Corporate/Commercial: Rio de Janeiro
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