Chambers Review
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Labour & Employment: The Elite - Brazil
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.
Strengths
Peixoto e Cury Advogados excels in responsiveness, with a strong focus on understanding the business and developing unique, personalised strategies.
Peixoto e Cury Advogados assists us in cases of extreme relevance to our business and sector, consistently generating great success and positive results.
Peixoto e Cury's team continually shows strong technical expertise, deep subject‑matter knowledge, and, most importantly, the ability to deliver practical and effective solutions aligned with our company’s business needs.
Peixoto e Cury Advogados has proven to be a highly valuable strategic partner. Its multidisciplinary and skilled team handles cases with organisation, precision, and strong technical expertise, providing our company with confidence and peace of mind.
Work Highlights
Peixoto e Cury represented BP Bunge in two collective lawsuits filed by the Labour Prosecution Office, in which the prosecutor sought to reduce by half the labour limits for the transportation of raw material.
Notable practitioners
Antonio Carlos Aguiar is an active and respected labour practitioner, sought after to assist with negotiations with unions, labour contracts and internal compliance investigations.
Antonio Carlos is one of the most brilliant lawyers who I study and read. He is an exceptional and very hands-on partner.
He gets involved in strategic cases, such as litigation in higher courts and he has a good relationship with unions. Antonio Carlos is incredible.
Antonio Carlos Aguiar is a well-established and respected professional in the market. He conveys great technical and strategic confidence. His distinguishing feature is his extensive experience in complex labour litigation, combined with his ability to anticipate risks and propose practical solutions.
Gisela da Silva Freire is a well renowned partner offering experience acting on labour issues hailing from the M&A arena and litigations involving wrongful terminations and harassment claims.
Gisela is very technically skilled, incredible in the theoretical field and is always organizing conferences.
Gisela da Silva Freire is extremely skilled, responsive, and practical, demonstrating a strong capacity for influence in complex union negotiations.
Gisela is the president of the Union of Law Firms of the States of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and a full member of the São Paulo Bar Association. She's always on top of things and updated with the labour law field.
Gisela da Silva Freire is an excellent lawyer, who is very helpful and with excellent knowledge of labour issues