FAS Advogados, in cooperation with CMS

Managing Partner: Paulo Mertz Focaccia

Number of partners: 17

Number of other lawyers: 100

Firm Overview:

FAS Advogados is a Brazilian full-service law firm that operates in cooperation with CMS – one of the world's largest law firms. It was founded in 2003 and has offices in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in addition to handling matters throughout Brazil.

With extensive knowledge of the Brazilian legal market and a global outlook, we deliver exceptional services through an agile and dedicated structure, always committed to providing our clients with quality and innovation.

We are a contemporary and groundbreaking legal firm, led by a diverse group of talented individuals who possess a strong passion for the law and are driven to make a positive impact in the legal industry. Our aim is to simplify our clients' lives and bring more accuracy to their legal affairs.

In recent years, our company has undergone considerable expansion through a combination of streamlining our current processes and developing innovative practices, customized to suit the specific requirements of industries like energy, hospitality, tourism, insurance, reinsurance, media, telecommunications, and sports betting. As a result, we are proud to offer our clients an extensive range of top-quality services.

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

Our broad practice covers all aspects of the financial market, including advising financial institutions, regulating payment methods, drafting contracts, resolving disputes and data protection, structuring financial products, and defending the interests of fintechs.

Compliance and Business Investigations

Our expertise in conducting detailed analyses of documents and evidence guarantees a thorough and impartial approach throughout the investigative process. Combining specialized knowledge and complementary skills, we offer strategic support so that our clients can make better decisions and mitigate potential reputational damage.

Capital Markets

Our advice covers the regulation and public offerings of securities in the national and international markets, including securitization, as well as financial operations, investment funds, and the structuring of complex transactions.

Legal Marketing

Our team works on all commercial promotions that do or do not require authorization, as well as on capitalization title campaigns and incentive and live marketing. We advise clients in a comprehensive manner, covering the evaluation of the discourse for the SAC, the development of the promotional mechanics, regulations, review of the communication pieces, and monitoring of the process.

Consumer Relations

With a focus on compliance and product safety, our broad range of activities includes consulting, preventive, administrative, judicial, and advertising campaigns, as well as coordination and advice on recall campaigns, regulatory agenda monitoring, optimization of Customer Service (SAC), and e-commerce structuring.

Commercial Contracts

We provide specialized guidance to ensure legal compliance, identifying risks and exploring alternative scenarios throughout the supply chain. Additionally, we advise national and foreign companies in the Brazilian market, considering tax, competition, environmental, and consumer protection aspects.

Corporate

With multidisciplinary knowledge focused on corporate law, our team offers legal advice on the establishment, maintenance, and termination of companies, including the drafting of various corporate documents, as well as actively participating in general assemblies when necessary, drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements, and structuring corporate governance.

Customs

We provide exclusive or joint services with national operations of industry, commerce, or services, meeting the needs of the goods nationalization process in Brazil. We also act to ensure legal compliance in the release of goods and administrative and judicial defenses.

Diversity & Inclusion Projects

We advise on the implementation of affirmative projects aimed at social inclusion and in and out-of-court procedures. In addition, our experienced team offers training on a variety of topics related to this area, as well as preventive consulting related to the quota law for people with disabilities, apprenticeship contracts, and the formation of diversity committees.

Data Protection

We offer comprehensive consultancy for a range of topics related to data protection, such as projects for compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD), consulting for digital platforms and Internet applications, risk analysis, and legal viability assessment of new products and business models. Additionally, we provide support for cyber risk prevention and other related services.

Dispute Resolution

With an experienced, multidisciplinary, and highly qualified team, we offer cutting-edge advice in high-complexity situations and crisis management, representing clients in complex and relevant cases.

Energy

Our team provides consultancy on legal and regulatory matters, assistance in the structuring of energy generation and commercialization projects, drafting and negotiation of contracts, representation of companies in processes and procedures for conflict resolution, as well as conducting administrative proceedings before legal entities.

Hospitality, Travel & Leisure

We are pioneers in creating a legal practice dedicated to this sector. Our expertise encompasses mergers and acquisitions, financial operations, tax structuring, legal compliance, and comprehensive tourism legal consultancy, both nationally and internationally.

Insurance and Reinsurance

Our specialized work in this sector covers regulatory issues, litigation strategies, claims regulation, distribution channel modeling, product development, mergers, and acquisitions, as well as investments in insurtechs and other customized services.

Intellectual Property

We provide high-level consulting on transactions and litigation involving intellectual property assets, from patents, trademarks, and copyrights to software, trade secrets, and cases of unfair competition. We protect and value your most precious assets.

Real Estate

Our multidisciplinary professionals offer sophisticated solutions for real estate investments (direct or indirect), aspects related to the development and management of these assets, as well as advice on a variety of matters related to urban (commercial or industrial) and rural properties.

Social Security

We develop effective methodologies and tools for identifying and preventing social security risks, as well as for optimizing the tax cost with payroll. We also provide advice on social security compliance and support in the structuring, review, and improvement of practices and processes.

Startup & Innovation

We offer legal advice to startups on everyday issues, such as the preparation and review of corporate acts, partnership agreements, commercial and employment contracts, privacy policies, to complex due diligence operations and legal advice in M&A operations.

Tax Advisory & Planning

Our team has extensive experience in strategic tax advisory, handling direct and indirect taxes, succession planning, corporate reorganizations, M&A, national and international investments, project financing transactions, transfer pricing, and financial operations. We are attentive to the specificities of each sector, ensuring effective and secure solutions for our clients.

Tax Litigation

Our wide range of services, focused on the administrative and judicial areas, covers federal, state, and municipal taxes, including support in all phases, from audits to defenses in the upper courts. We also work in legal audits, due diligence, and tax investigations for identification and assessment of liabilities, adherence to amnesty and tax installment programs, transactions to end tax disputes, and standardizing tax situations.

Technology, Media, and Telecommunications

Our multidisciplinary team, exclusively dedicated to the digital ecosystem, innovation, media, telecommunications, and entertainment, offers customized and high-quality solutions aligned with the demands of this dynamic market.

Antitrust, Competition and Trade

The team deals with sophisticated and innovative antitrust issues, including representing clients in complex administrative investigations and proceedings involving conduct control, merger filings, and competition compliance consultations. Our focus is on anticipating responses and taking actions to mitigate or contain risks in competition law matters.

Crisis Management

Our team of highly qualified legal consultants provides expert support to companies, ensuring an immediate response in the event of a crisis. We offer strategic coordination of key measures necessary to mitigate its effects effectively.

Media & Gaming

We are at the forefront of the regulated betting market, with prominent expertise in providing legal counsel to operators, platforms, and stakeholders in the sector. We ensure compliance, risk mitigation, and competitive positioning through a modern, pragmatic approach aligned with current regulations.

Labor Advisory

We offer strategic and customized consulting advice on complex issues, with a focus on risk mitigation and trend analysis. Our services include drafting opinions, structuring programs, project consulting, and promoting training aimed at improving corporate performance and promoting the integration of its employees.

Labor Litigation

We work in strategic judicial and extrajudicial litigation, drafting and negotiating contracts, managing agreements, and advising on investigations and fines with the aim of protecting the interests of our clients in labor disputes.

M&A

We have the know-how to serve clients in the structuring and execution of a wide variety of transactions, from the simplest to the most complex, on the buyside or sell-side, local or cross-border. We also advise companies on all phases of a private equity investment or in venture capital funds and startups.

White-Collar Crime

Our expertise in conducting detailed analyses of documents and evidence ensures a thorough and impartial approach throughout the entire investigative process. By combining specialized knowledge and complementary skills, we provide strategic support so that our clients can make the best decisions and mitigate potential reputational damage.

Agribusiness

Our team of Agribusiness specialists operates with a strategic and multidisciplinary approach, offering comprehensive support on advisory, regulatory, and litigation matters. We provide legal counsel to all agents in the sector, including financial institutions and capital markets players, rural producers, cooperatives, trading companies, distributors, agribusiness industries, chemical manufacturers, equipment producers, and agtech companies.

Managing Partner: Paulo Mertz Focaccia

Number of partners: 13

Number of other lawyers: 85

Firm Overview:

FAS Advogados is a Brazilian full-service law firm that operates in cooperation with CMS – one of the world's largest law firms. It was founded in 2003 and has offices in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in addition to handling matters throughout Brazil.

With extensive knowledge of the Brazilian legal market and a global outlook, we deliver exceptional services through an agile and dedicated structure, always committed to providing our clients with quality and innovation.

We are a contemporary and groundbreaking legal firm, led by a diverse group of talented individuals who possess a strong passion for the law and are driven to make a positive impact in the legal industry. Our aim is to simplify our clients' lives and bring more accuracy to their legal affairs.

In recent years, our company has undergone considerable expansion through a combination of streamlining our current processes and developing innovative practices, customized to suit the specific requirements of industries like energy, hospitality, tourism, insurance, reinsurance, media, telecommunications, and sports betting. As a result, we are proud to offer our clients an extensive range of top-quality services.

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

Our broad practice covers all aspects of the financial market, including advising financial institutions, regulating payment methods, drafting contracts, resolving disputes and data protection, structuring financial products, and defending the interests of fintechs.

Compliance and Business Investigations

Our expertise in conducting detailed analyses of documents and evidence guarantees a thorough and impartial approach throughout the investigative process. Combining specialized knowledge and complementary skills, we offer strategic support so that our clients can make better decisions and mitigate potential reputational damage.

Capital Markets

Our advice covers the regulation and public offerings of securities in the national and international markets, including securitization, as well as financial operations, investment funds, and the structuring of complex transactions.

Legal Marketing

Our team works on all commercial promotions that do or do not require authorization, as well as on capitalization title campaigns and incentive and live marketing. We advise clients in a comprehensive manner, covering the evaluation of the discourse for the SAC, the development of the promotional mechanics, regulations, review of the communication pieces, and monitoring of the process.

Consumer Relations

With a focus on compliance and product safety, our broad range of activities includes consulting, preventive, administrative, judicial, and advertising campaigns, as well as coordination and advice on recall campaigns, regulatory agenda monitoring, optimization of Customer Service (SAC), and e-commerce structuring.

Commercial Contracts

We provide specialized guidance to ensure legal compliance, identifying risks and exploring alternative scenarios throughout the supply chain. Additionally, we advise national and foreign companies in the Brazilian market, considering tax, competition, environmental, and consumer protection aspects.

Corporate

With multidisciplinary knowledge focused on corporate law, our team offers legal advice on the establishment, maintenance, and termination of companies, including the drafting of various corporate documents, as well as actively participating in general assemblies when necessary, drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements, and structuring corporate governance.

Customs

We provide exclusive or joint services with national operations of industry, commerce, or services, meeting the needs of the goods nationalization process in Brazil. We also act to ensure legal compliance in the release of goods and administrative and judicial defenses.

Diversity & Inclusion Projects

We advise on the implementation of affirmative projects aimed at social inclusion and in and out-of-court procedures. In addition, our experienced team offers training on a variety of topics related to this area, as well as preventive consulting related to the quota law for people with disabilities, apprenticeship contracts, and the formation of diversity committees.

Data Protection

We offer comprehensive consultancy for a range of topics related to data protection, such as projects for compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD), consulting for digital platforms and Internet applications, risk analysis, and legal viability assessment of new products and business models. Additionally, we provide support for cyber risk prevention and other related services.

Dispute Resolution

With an experienced, multidisciplinary, and highly qualified team, we offer cutting-edge advice in high-complexity situations and crisis management, representing clients in complex and relevant cases.

Energy

Our team provides consultancy on legal and regulatory matters, assistance in the structuring of energy generation and commercialization projects, drafting and negotiation of contracts, representation of companies in processes and procedures for conflict resolution, as well as conducting administrative proceedings before legal entities.

Hospitality, Travel & Leisure

We are pioneers in creating a legal practice dedicated to this sector. Our expertise encompasses mergers and acquisitions, financial operations, tax structuring, legal compliance, and comprehensive tourism legal consultancy, both nationally and internationally.

Insurance and Reinsurance

Our specialized work in this sector covers regulatory issues, litigation strategies, claims regulation, distribution channel modeling, product development, mergers, and acquisitions, as well as investments in insurtechs and other customized services.

Intellectual Property

We provide high-level consulting on transactions and litigation involving intellectual property assets, from patents, trademarks, and copyrights to software, trade secrets, and cases of unfair competition. We protect and value your most precious assets.

Real Estate

Our multidisciplinary professionals offer sophisticated solutions for real estate investments (direct or indirect), aspects related to the development and management of these assets, as well as advice on a variety of matters related to urban (commercial or industrial) and rural properties.

Social Security

We develop effective methodologies and tools for identifying and preventing social security risks, as well as for optimizing the tax cost with payroll. We also provide advice on social security compliance and support in the structuring, review, and improvement of practices and processes.

Startup & Innovation

We offer legal advice to startups on everyday issues, such as the preparation and review of corporate acts, partnership agreements, commercial and employment contracts, privacy policies, to complex due diligence operations and legal advice in M&A operations.

Tax Advisory & Planning

Our team has extensive experience in strategic tax advisory, handling direct and indirect taxes, succession planning, corporate reorganizations, M&A, national and international investments, project financing transactions, transfer pricing, and financial operations. We are attentive to the specificities of each sector, ensuring effective and secure solutions for our clients.

Tax Litigation

Our wide range of services, focused on the administrative and judicial areas, covers federal, state, and municipal taxes, including support in all phases, from audits to defenses in the upper courts. We also work in legal audits, due diligence, and tax investigations for identification and assessment of liabilities, adherence to amnesty and tax installment programs, transactions to end tax disputes, and standardizing tax situations.

Technology, Media, and Telecommunications

Our multidisciplinary team, exclusively dedicated to the digital ecosystem, innovation, media, telecommunications, and entertainment, offers customized and high-quality solutions aligned with the demands of this dynamic market.

Antitrust, Competition and Trade

The team deals with sophisticated and innovative antitrust issues, including representing clients in complex administrative investigations and proceedings involving conduct control, merger filings, and competition compliance consultations. Our focus is on anticipating responses and taking actions to mitigate or contain risks in competition law matters.

Crisis Management

Our team of highly qualified legal consultants provides expert support to companies, ensuring an immediate response in the event of a crisis. We offer strategic coordination of key measures necessary to mitigate its effects effectively.

Media & Gaming

We are at the forefront of the regulated betting market, with prominent expertise in providing legal counsel to operators, platforms, and stakeholders in the sector. We ensure compliance, risk mitigation, and competitive positioning through a modern, pragmatic approach aligned with current regulations.

Labor Advisory

We offer strategic and customized consulting advice on complex issues, with a focus on risk mitigation and trend analysis. Our services include drafting opinions, structuring programs, project consulting, and promoting training aimed at improving corporate performance and promoting the integration of its employees.

Labor Litigation

We work in strategic judicial and extrajudicial litigation, drafting and negotiating contracts, managing agreements, and advising on investigations and fines with the aim of protecting the interests of our clients in labor disputes.

M&A

We have the know-how to serve clients in the structuring and execution of a wide variety of transactions, from the simplest to the most complex, on the buyside or sell-side, local or cross-border. We also advise companies on all phases of a private equity investment or in venture capital funds and startups.

White-Collar Crime

Our expertise in conducting detailed analyses of documents and evidence ensures a thorough and impartial approach throughout the entire investigative process. By combining specialized knowledge and complementary skills, we provide strategic support so that our clients can make the best decisions and mitigate potential reputational damage.

Managing Partner: Paulo Mertz Focaccia

Number of partners: 17

Number of other lawyers: 100

Firm Overview:

FAS Advogados is a Brazilian full-service law firm that operates in cooperation with CMS – one of the world's largest law firms. It was founded in 2003 and has offices in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in addition to handling matters throughout Brazil.

With extensive knowledge of the Brazilian legal market and a global outlook, we deliver exceptional services through an agile and dedicated structure, always committed to providing our clients with quality and innovation.

We are a contemporary and groundbreaking legal firm, led by a diverse group of talented individuals who possess a strong passion for the law and are driven to make a positive impact in the legal industry. Our aim is to simplify our clients' lives and bring more accuracy to their legal affairs.

In recent years, our company has undergone considerable expansion through a combination of streamlining our current processes and developing innovative practices, customized to suit the specific requirements of industries like energy, hospitality, tourism, insurance, reinsurance, media, telecommunications, and sports betting. As a result, we are proud to offer our clients an extensive range of top-quality services.

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

Our broad practice covers all aspects of the financial market, including advising financial institutions, regulating payment methods, drafting contracts, resolving disputes and data protection, structuring financial products, and defending the interests of fintechs.

Compliance and Business Investigations

Our expertise in conducting detailed analyses of documents and evidence guarantees a thorough and impartial approach throughout the investigative process. Combining specialized knowledge and complementary skills, we offer strategic support so that our clients can make better decisions and mitigate potential reputational damage.

Capital Markets

Our advice covers the regulation and public offerings of securities in the national and international markets, including securitization, as well as financial operations, investment funds, and the structuring of complex transactions.

Legal Marketing

Our team works on all commercial promotions that do or do not require authorization, as well as on capitalization title campaigns and incentive and live marketing. We advise clients in a comprehensive manner, covering the evaluation of the discourse for the SAC, the development of the promotional mechanics, regulations, review of the communication pieces, and monitoring of the process.

Consumer Relations

With a focus on compliance and product safety, our broad range of activities includes consulting, preventive, administrative, judicial, and advertising campaigns, as well as coordination and advice on recall campaigns, regulatory agenda monitoring, optimization of Customer Service (SAC), and e-commerce structuring.

Commercial Contracts

We provide specialized guidance to ensure legal compliance, identifying risks and exploring alternative scenarios throughout the supply chain. Additionally, we advise national and foreign companies in the Brazilian market, considering tax, competition, environmental, and consumer protection aspects.

Corporate

With multidisciplinary knowledge focused on corporate law, our team offers legal advice on the establishment, maintenance, and termination of companies, including the drafting of various corporate documents, as well as actively participating in general assemblies when necessary, drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements, and structuring corporate governance.

Customs

We provide exclusive or joint services with national operations of industry, commerce, or services, meeting the needs of the goods nationalization process in Brazil. We also act to ensure legal compliance in the release of goods and administrative and judicial defenses.

Diversity & Inclusion Projects

We advise on the implementation of affirmative projects aimed at social inclusion and in and out-of-court procedures. In addition, our experienced team offers training on a variety of topics related to this area, as well as preventive consulting related to the quota law for people with disabilities, apprenticeship contracts, and the formation of diversity committees.

Data Protection

We offer comprehensive consultancy for a range of topics related to data protection, such as projects for compliance with the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD), consulting for digital platforms and Internet applications, risk analysis, and legal viability assessment of new products and business models. Additionally, we provide support for cyber risk prevention and other related services.

Dispute Resolution

With an experienced, multidisciplinary, and highly qualified team, we offer cutting-edge advice in high-complexity situations and crisis management, representing clients in complex and relevant cases.

Energy

Our team provides consultancy on legal and regulatory matters, assistance in the structuring of energy generation and commercialization projects, drafting and negotiation of contracts, representation of companies in processes and procedures for conflict resolution, as well as conducting administrative proceedings before legal entities.

Hospitality, Travel & Leisure

We are pioneers in creating a legal practice dedicated to this sector. Our expertise encompasses mergers and acquisitions, financial operations, tax structuring, legal compliance, and comprehensive tourism legal consultancy, both nationally and internationally.

Insurance and Reinsurance

Our specialized work in this sector covers regulatory issues, litigation strategies, claims regulation, distribution channel modeling, product development, mergers, and acquisitions, as well as investments in insurtechs and other customized services.

Intellectual Property

We provide high-level consulting on transactions and litigation involving intellectual property assets, from patents, trademarks, and copyrights to software, trade secrets, and cases of unfair competition. We protect and value your most precious assets.

Real Estate

Our multidisciplinary professionals offer sophisticated solutions for real estate investments (direct or indirect), aspects related to the development and management of these assets, as well as advice on a variety of matters related to urban (commercial or industrial) and rural properties.

Social Security

We develop effective methodologies and tools for identifying and preventing social security risks, as well as for optimizing the tax cost with payroll. We also provide advice on social security compliance and support in the structuring, review, and improvement of practices and processes.

Startup & Innovation

We offer legal advice to startups on everyday issues, such as the preparation and review of corporate acts, partnership agreements, commercial and employment contracts, privacy policies, to complex due diligence operations and legal advice in M&A operations.

Tax Advisory & Planning

Our team has extensive experience in strategic tax advisory, handling direct and indirect taxes, succession planning, corporate reorganizations, M&A, national and international investments, project financing transactions, transfer pricing, and financial operations. We are attentive to the specificities of each sector, ensuring effective and secure solutions for our clients.

Tax Litigation

Our wide range of services, focused on the administrative and judicial areas, covers federal, state, and municipal taxes, including support in all phases, from audits to defenses in the upper courts. We also work in legal audits, due diligence, and tax investigations for identification and assessment of liabilities, adherence to amnesty and tax installment programs, transactions to end tax disputes, and standardizing tax situations.

Technology, Media, and Telecommunications

Our multidisciplinary team, exclusively dedicated to the digital ecosystem, innovation, media, telecommunications, and entertainment, offers customized and high-quality solutions aligned with the demands of this dynamic market.

Antitrust, Competition and Trade

The team deals with sophisticated and innovative antitrust issues, including representing clients in complex administrative investigations and proceedings involving conduct control, merger filings, and competition compliance consultations. Our focus is on anticipating responses and taking actions to mitigate or contain risks in competition law matters.

Crisis Management

Our team of highly qualified legal consultants provides expert support to companies, ensuring an immediate response in the event of a crisis. We offer strategic coordination of key measures necessary to mitigate its effects effectively.

Media & Gaming

We are at the forefront of the regulated betting market, with prominent expertise in providing legal counsel to operators, platforms, and stakeholders in the sector. We ensure compliance, risk mitigation, and competitive positioning through a modern, pragmatic approach aligned with current regulations.

Labor Advisory

We offer strategic and customized consulting advice on complex issues, with a focus on risk mitigation and trend analysis. Our services include drafting opinions, structuring programs, project consulting, and promoting training aimed at improving corporate performance and promoting the integration of its employees.

Labor Litigation

We work in strategic judicial and extrajudicial litigation, drafting and negotiating contracts, managing agreements, and advising on investigations and fines with the aim of protecting the interests of our clients in labor disputes.

M&A

We have the know-how to serve clients in the structuring and execution of a wide variety of transactions, from the simplest to the most complex, on the buyside or sell-side, local or cross-border. We also advise companies on all phases of a private equity investment or in venture capital funds and startups.

White-Collar Crime

Our expertise in conducting detailed analyses of documents and evidence ensures a thorough and impartial approach throughout the entire investigative process. By combining specialized knowledge and complementary skills, we provide strategic support so that our clients can make the best decisions and mitigate potential reputational damage.

Agribusiness

Our team of Agribusiness specialists operates with a strategic and multidisciplinary approach, offering comprehensive support on advisory, regulatory, and litigation matters. We provide legal counsel to all agents in the sector, including financial institutions and capital markets players, rural producers, cooperatives, trading companies, distributors, agribusiness industries, chemical manufacturers, equipment producers, and agtech companies.