Candido Martins Advogados

Firm Overview:
Candido Martins Advogados is a Brazilian law firm focused on Private Equity and M&A transactions. The firm’s team combines solid academic background with substantial legal experience and its attorneys are known for their analytical skills and their care when serving clients. While handling complex cases, Candido Martins team focus on innovative service and address clients’ immediate needs as well as their longer-term strategic goals.

Partners: Alamy Candido, Henrique Martins, Daniel Rodrigues Alves, Tatiana Cappa Chiaradia.

Practice Areas: 

M&A and Corporate:
Candido Martins DNA is mergers and acquisitions. The firm advises domestic and foreign clients in investment, joint ventures and divestment transactions, assisting both buy-side – private equity funds or strategic investors – and sell-side – usually family-owned companies or private equity funds in divestment processes.

The firm’s tax area also actively participates in negotiations from the outset, allowing clients to have a more agile and complete understanding of the tax impacts of the transaction. The scope of the firm’s work includes the drafting and negotiation of definitive contracts, as well as conducting due diligence.

In relation to corporate, Candido Martins assists in the day to day of the invested companies, acting in relation to the incorporation of companies and preparation of corporate acts; the structuring of stock option plans and implementation of corporate governance rules; the negotiation, analysis and drafting of commercial and strategic contracts; and also advising international clients in the planning and conduct of investments in the country, including the respective registrations of investments with the Central Bank and the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM), with emphasis on private equity funds

Private Equity:
Candido Martins advises domestic and foreign private equity funds in its investments in Brazil, from the conception and incorporation of the most appropriate vehicle for the investment, to preparation of related corporate acts, filing with the competent authorities and negotiating the mergers and acquisition transactions corresponding to the investment. Upon divestment, the firm advises private equity funds on their exit, either through a private sale or a public offering. It also advises managers and administrators, as well as investors, in the structuring of investment funds in Brazil, assisting in the incorporation, regulatory aspects, registrations and governance rules of investment funds.

Tax:
Candido Martins’ tax area is one of the pillars of the firm. It’s work included the analysis and implementation of tax structures related to acquisition processes, control sales, mergers, amalgamations and corporate reorganizations in general; the preparation of risk assessment in mergers and acquisitions processes, including interaction with auditors and accountants; assistance to domestic and foreign clients in the structuring of their business in Brazil with the verification of the most appropriate tax procedures to their respective areas of activity; assistance in the tax consulting tax area, with the purpose of avoiding future tax contingencies; drafting of legal opinions and memoranda addressing clients’ inquiries on tax matters; representation in tax lawsuits.

Wealth Planning:
The joint action of the corporate and tax areas is also present in the structuring of estate and wealth planning of executives and families seeking the firm for this purpose, including the incorporation of holdings or funds, the assistance in the adoption of corporate governance practices and management, with the execution of shareholders’ agreements and corporate mechanisms that ensure the perpetuity of the net worth, always in light of tax efficiency.

Adding Candido Martins know-how to the inheritance and family rules provided for in the civil law, the firm presents solutions that allow the organization of the family new worth and ensure its continuity in the future, by regulating the rights and obligations that will be the responsibility of the heirs.

Banking and Capital Markets:
Candido Martins advises clients on banking and capital markets financing through syndicated loans, bilateral loans, Credit Notes (CCBs) and issuance of debt securities through restricted offerings such as debentures, promissory notes, Agribusiness Receivables Certificate (CRA) and Real Estate Receivables Certificates (CRI). The firm has also solid experience in debt restructuring and refinancing.The firmoperates at every stage of the process, from the preparation and negotiation of debt instruments, legal review to the registration of all acts with the competent authorities and the issuance of legal opinions.

Clients:
Candido Martins client base is comprised of private equity firms, family owned business and large national and international corporations from several sectors.