Bicalho Navarro Advogados

• Founding partners: Rodrigo Cury Bicalho and Alexandre Tadeu Navarro

Address:

São Paulo

Av Pres Juscelino Kubitschek, 1600

7º andar | CEP 04543 000

T 55 11 3511.9900

Firm Overview:

Our practice is focused on corporate law and business law, providing specialized legal advice of high quality and efficiency to business groups, financial institutions and private investors. We have a culture of solid integrity, principles and values, and we value close relationships with our clients.

Our team is characterized by an integrated and multidisciplinary approach, which allows us to offer cohesive and complete advice. We are committed to providing a service of excellence, based on ethics, technical competence and commitment to our clients' interests.

Main Areas of Practice

Consultation

• Purchase and sale, exchange, due diligence and negotiation of guarantees.
• Condominium projects, including mixed-use, complex and stepwise undertakings.
• Development of subdivisions and planned communities, as well as structuring of real estate and corporate partnerships.
• Structuring of projects in the residential, corporate, shopping center, logistics and industrial park areas.
• Leases and structured transactions, including built to suit and sale and lease back.
• Transactions involving acquisition or lease of real estate by foreign groups.
• Structuring of hotel projects, such as condo-hotels, tourist resorts and time-share undertakings.
• Interface with the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) for registration of bond issues for real estate projects.
• Regularization of property title.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

• Representation in lawsuits, mediation and arbitration involving real estate.
• Measures to collect debts, execute guarantees and establish trust deeds.
• Disputes involving enforcement, revision or termination of real estate and business contracts.
• Lawsuits involving condominium projects, subdivisions and construction agreements.
• Strategic lawsuits involving themes with general repercussion in the real estate sector.
• Lawsuits for eviction, rent revision and renewal of lease agreements.
• Possessory actions.

Environmental

• Environmental litigation: public civil actions, civil inquiries, administrative defenses and appeals.
• Environmental licensing.
• Environmental regularization: consent decrees for environmental compensation (TCA), environmental reclamation (TCRA), and adjustment of conduct (TAC).
• Environmental auditing (urban and rural properties).
• Consulting for the acquisition of contaminated areas and in rehabilitation proceedings.
• Solid waste disposal.
• Environmental compliance.

Urbanism

• Litigation involving urban projects: public civil actions, civil inquiries, administrative defenses and appeals.
• Legal advice for the development and approval of projects for construction, remodeling/refurbishment, retrofit and others.
• Analysis of master plans, zoning ordinances and building codes.
• Building rights, paid grant and transfer of building rights.
• Landmarking and construction restrictions.
• Government-coordinated urban renewal projects and issuance of CEPACs (instruments for waiver of zoning rules).

Corporate

• Corporate planning for real estate development.
• Family business and succession planning.
• Establishment of companies, joint ventures, consortiums and other forms of partnership and association.
• Corporate restructuring, shareholder/partner agreements.
• Advice in transactions involving spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions.

Tax

• Tax consulting for real estate transactions and structuring of undertakings.
• Tax planning for mergers and acquisitions and other corporate restructuring transactions.
• Family and succession tax planning.
• Structuring of infrastructure projects.
• Transactions in the financial and capital markets.
• National and international tax planning.
• Judicial and administrative litigation involving federal, state and municipal taxes.