CMT – Carvalho, Machado e Timm Advogados

Firm Overview:

Carvalho, Machado e Timm has a team of dynamic lawyers with solid technical training. The firm is highly regarded for its excellence in providing legal services at an international standard. Its members apply their academic knowledge to everyday practice, enabling them to offer innovative legal and commercial solutions to meettheir clients’ needs.

Connecting law to business, solutions, people and the future, Carvalho, Machado e Timm has over 20 years of experience. It has grown from a small boutique law practice into a firm that holds a prominent position in business law and has an ever-growing presence and recognition in Brazil’s main business centers.

The firm leads its practice with a comprehensive view of its clients' activities and allows the team to fully dive into their operations. Its lawyers are specialists in risk assessment, contingencies and cost-benefit analysis and provide legal advice as litigators and consulting practice. The practice areas encompass preventive law techniques as well as dispute resolution and the professionals are recognized for their focus on solving clients’ problems efficiently, ethically, and technically.

Carvalho, Machado e Timm has a team of professionals trained to operate across various practice areas within the corporate law. The firm’s partners and associates combine experience gained at major national and international law firms with the personalized attention typical of specialized boutiques. Agility, experience in large-scale projects, expertise in diverse business sectors, and, above all, results, are the hallmarks of the firm's practice.

Managing Partner:

Luciano Timm has been a corporate lawyer since 1994, focusing his professional practice both in the South of Brazil and in São Paulo, built on experiences as in-house counsel, in court, as well as in top law firms in the country. Apart from having a solid national and international academic background, his practice centers in the strategy of complex cases, as well as in the commercial and economic impacts of the operations he assists in, bringing elements of his academic experience in law and economics to the legal profession. He is currently the head of CMT’s dispute resolution department, which includes negotiations, mediations, arbitrations and litigation. It this field, he is strategically involved in oral arguments, drafting of documents and legal opinions, and in the national leadership of the firm’s litigation team. Agribusiness, paper and cellulose, machinery and equipment, food and beverage, civil liability, real estate, and civil construction are some of the sectors where his works stands out.