About

Provided by Peixoto e Cury Advogados

A medium-sized firm with more than 70 years, Peixoto & Cury Advogados has a traditional and solid labour practice, with six renowned partners and more than 30 standout lawyers with proven experience working in a wide range of sectors helping to set up complex and efficient labour structures to national and international clients. Since its foundation, P&C values both technical excellence as well as an outstanding client experience, always operating in partnership with its clients to provide strategic and innovative solutions for their business.

Peixoto & Cury assists clients in the most varied labour matters such as:

  • Collective and union law: conduction of collective negotiations, including lay-off, salary reduction, salary negotiation, and others.
  • Risk Assessment: preventive and proactive audits; preparation of a roadmap showing possible vulnerabilities in clients’ activities.
  • Consulting: labour planning and human resources management advice, such as outsourcing, and flexible working hours models.
  • Occupational Health and Safety: development of Security Service Orders, revision and adaptation of safety programs, project implementation and monitoring.
  • Litigation: judicial and administrative proceedings in all instances. Calculation of awards and detailed reports related to juridical risks.

At P&C the labour area is one of the firm's main strengths, being an attraction and gateway for clients to the practice itself and to other areas of the firm.

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Labour & Employment: The Elite - Brazil

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Band 4

What the Team is Known For

Peixoto e Cury Advogados offers an active department that is well equipped to advise on contentious and non-contentious labour mandates. The team offers a solid track record acting on diverse issues ranging from designing employee benefit plans to negotiation of disputes with unions. It also assists with wrongful termination and overtime claims. Clients also benefit from the team's expertise in transactional matters and ability to handle labour cases arising from M&A and restructuring.

Work Highlights

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  • Peixoto e Cury represented T4F Entretenimento in a Ministry of Labour inspection coordinating responses to the public, media, and regulatory bodies, and the administrative proceeding initiated by the Labour Prosecution Office.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Antonio Carlos Aguiar
2
Antonio Carlos Aguiar
2
Band 2

Antonio Carlos Aguiar is an active and respected labour practitioner, sought after to assist with negotiations with unions, labour contracts and internal compliance investigations.

He is more than a lawyer, Antonio Carlos is a strategic partner for our company. He gives his best for his client's interests and has the sensitivity to understand the peculiarities of each challenge.

He is a very practical lawyer with a great reading of the company's legal and commercial scenarios, in addition to having solid knowledge in the area in which he advised us.

Antonio Carlos is quite pragmatic and has highly relevant experience, which helps us mitigate risks.

Gisela da Silva Freire
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Gisela da Silva Freire
2
Band 2

Gisela da Silva Freire offers experience acting on labour issues hailing from the M&A arena and litigations involving wrongful terminations and harassment claims.

Gisela is an extremely competent and available lawyer who has strategic vision. She understood the market moment we were going through, helping us deal with sensitive points we face on a daily basis.

Gisela is extremely qualified and responds to everything quickly and objectively. She has qualities that make her stand out from the market in collective bargaining effectively.

She has extensive experience in the labour area and has become an authority to help us with any issues that arise.

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Antonio Carlos Aguiar
2
Antonio Carlos Aguiar
2
Band 2
Gisela da Silva Freire
2
Gisela da Silva Freire
2
Band 2

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