Caselli Guimarães Advogados

Managing Partner: Luiz Arthur Caselli Guimarães Filho

Senior Partners: Luiz Arthur Caselli Guimarães Filho, Silvia Poggi, Lucia Frias, Fernanda Inhasz, Martha Sala

Number of partners: 13

Firm Overview: For over 60 years, Caselli Guimarães has been providing legal solutions for complex business challenges and sensitive individual matters. The firm combines a high technical standard with a pragmatic approach, prioritising legal security and innovation to deliver bespoke solutions in synergy with clients. It operates with a multidisciplinary approach, integrating teams in real estate, corporate and M&A, contracts, litigation, arbitration, expropriation, and estate planning, family and succession. Caselli Guimarães values personal service, integrity, and trust, fostering a client base across sectors such as real estate, services, industry, and infrastructure. The firm blends deep legal knowledge with business dynamics, aiming to remain at the forefront of legal services with a seasoned team delivering technical excellence.

Main Areas of Practice:

Real Estate: A core practice area, the real estate team advises on transactions of varying complexity, assisting clients in achieving business goals. The firm has extensive experience structuring real estate developments, handling real estate registry, notarial and urban law, Conduct Adjustment Agreements (TACs), civil inquiries, public civil actions, and legislative follow-up. It provides tailored advice across sectors such as real estate incorporation, subdivision development, construction agreements (including built-to-suit), acquisitions and sales, leasing, register rectification, and structuring of residential, commercial, and industrial developments, shopping centres, resorts, sports arenas, and hospitality projects.

Corporate & M&A: The firm advises on transactions, corporate reorganisations, M&A, asset transfers, spin-offs, and incorporations, providing strategic structuring, due diligence, and contract preparation. It assists in forming partnerships, SPEs, joint ventures, disinvestments, silent partnerships, non-profits, foreign investments, and governance structures, including shareholder and quotaholder agreements, corporate governance rules, and general meeting guidance.

Contracts: With vast experience drafting various contracts, the firm delivers customised services with high quality and excellence. It develops optimal contractual models based on market best practices, legislative updates, and case law. Services include meeting with parties and leading discussions to define legal structures that best serve negotiations and client interests.

Litigation: For over 60 years, Caselli Guimarães has represented companies and individuals in complex disputes across civil and commercial law. Its expertise ensures effective client protection with well-developed legal strategies. The firm has earned recognition across all superior courts, including the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) and the Federal Supreme Court (STF). It advises on legal opinions, potential disputes, and asset recovery, partnering with clients for optimal solutions. Early involvement allows clear-cut dispute resolution strategies, both judicial and extrajudicial.

Arbitration: The firm has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution, arbitration conventions, and all the necessary strategic vehicles. Its professionals act as arbitrators and lawyers in mediation and arbitration cases, handling jurisdictional challenges, annulments, enforcement, and foreign award ratification. Caselli Guimarães proactively structures arbitration clauses during contract drafting to safeguard client interests.

Expropriation: Brazil’s growing infrastructure demands have led to increased expropriation, significantly impacting businesses and individuals. The firm ensures fair compensation for clients in judicial and extrajudicial proceedings, leveraging its 60+ years of expertise. It counts on technical support from experienced engineers and accountants to ensure compliance with legal procedures and accurate property valuation, providing comprehensive defence in expropriation, easements, and administrative dispossession cases.

Estate Planning, Family and Succession: Caselli Guimarães offers personalised advisory services, emphasizing preventive strategies for family and succession matters. The firm assists in structuring family estates and succession planning, ensuring smooth wealth transfer and corporate interaction norms. This approach minimises conflicts and supports business continuity. It also handles marital and inheritance disputes, child custody, alimony, and asset division, promoting amicable solutions through negotiation and mediation.

Contacts:

Real Estate: Lucia Frias, Fernanda Inhasz

Corporate/M&A: Martha Sala

Litigation: Luiz Arthur Caselli Guimarães Filho

Arbitration: Silvia Poggi

Expropriation: Luiz Arthur Caselli Guimarães Filho

Estate Planning, Family and Succession: Silvia Poggi, Martha Sala

International Work: Caselli Guimarães assists foreign companies to establish themselves in Brazil, and supports their strategies to expand their local presence.

Languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Libras (Brazilian Sign Language)

Clients: The firm advises domestic and international clients across a wide range of sectors, including real estate, shopping centres, hospitality, agribusiness, exportation, automotive, broadcasting, and packaging, and high-net-worth individuals.

Head Office| São Paulo

Rua Funchal 129 - 11º andar

Vila Olímpia

04551-060São PauloSP

Brazil

www.caselliguimaraes.com.br

[email protected]

+55 11 3841.8700