HRSA | Sociedade de Advogados

Naming Partners: Luis Gustavo Haddad, Bruno Robert and Alexandre Domingues Serafim.

Number of partners: 37

Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish

Email: [email protected]

Firm Overview:

HRSA provides its clients with pragmatic, experienced guidance to deliver secure, efficient, and customized solutions. This is how we seek to cultivate long-lasting relationships of trust.

We pride ourselves on being an authentic law firm. Our approach draws inspiration from the true meaning of 'society,' emphasizing collaboration and unity. We are professionals with diverse and complementary technical profiles. Our core values—communication, transparency, ethical integrity, and a commitment to knowledge—form the foundation of our practice.

With a multidisciplinary team that has been collaborating seamlessly for over 20 years, HRSA leverages synergies across its sectors to offer agile, creative, and responsible solutions tailored to each client’s needs.

Tax Litigation

HRSA’s tax practice serves large business groups, medium-sized companies, as well as individuals, on both domestic and international taxation issues. We provide services as advisors and in the resolution of administrative or judicial controversies. Always considering the most up-to-date legislation and court precedents, our experienced professionals provide our clients with a broad view so they can make assertive decisions on different tax issues.

The tax litigation department draws attention from the market and from new and current clients of the firm, especially in judicially challenging recent changes in tax law.

The team is frequently sought after to advise clients in Federal, State and Municipal Tax Inspections, prior to the effective charge of tax through Tax Assessments. The team’s expertise handling complex administrative defenses provides excellent results for the clients during tax inspections, either to avoid or

reduce the amount of a Tax Assessment or maximize the chances of success of challenging the Tax Assessment in an administrative or judicial procedure.

The experience of the tax litigation team is also recognized by clients that seek ‘second opinions’ related to cases handled by other law firms.

Our tax litigation team also has experience in representing associations or unions before the Supreme Court in tax leading cases that will have national repercussions.

HRSA is the exclusive member of Red Legal Iberoamericana in Brazil, which provides a broad network of law firms in 19 jurisdictions around the world. This network enables the firm to offer legal advice to its clients on cross-border tax issues.

Dispute Resolution

Our Dispute Resolution’s practice stands out for its expertise in dispute resolution, offering comprehensive and strategic solutions for clients facing complex conflicts. The firm’s dispute resolution practice is built on a deep understanding of both litigation and arbitration, enabling HRSA to provide highly effective and tailored strategies to address a wide range of legal challenges.

With a dedicated team of experienced attorneys, HRSA excels in managing high-stakes disputes across various sectors, including commercial, corporate, and regulatory matters. The firm is committed to resolving conflicts efficiently, aiming to achieve favorable outcomes through negotiation, mediation, or, when necessary, more assertive judicial or arbitral proceedings.

HRSA’s approach to dispute resolution is client-focused, ensuring that each case is handled with the utmost attention to detail and a clear strategy for securing the best results. The firm’s ability to navigate complex legal frameworks and deliver swift, effective solutions has earned it a reputation as a trusted partner for businesses in need of dispute resolution services.

Through its specialized knowledge, strategic insight, and commitment to achieving optimal outcomes, HRSA has become a leading name in the field of dispute resolution, providing clients with the confidence that their legal challenges are in expert hands.

Office:

Brazil, São Paulo

Address: Rua Minas de Prata, 30 - SP

Tel: +55 11 4550 3950

Managing Partner: Mauricio Vedovato

Number of partners: 34

THE FIRM

HRSA has the mission of serving its clients with experience and pragmatism to achieve safe, timely and tailored solutions. This is how we seek to cultivate relationships of trust that are long-lasting.

OUR VALUES

HRSA is an authentic law firm. Authentic, because we find inspiration for our way of working and serving in the meaning of partnership.

We are professionals with diverse and complementary technical profiles.

The daily and long-lasting cooperation of this cohesive group of experts – who value communication, transparency, true relationships, ethics, and knowledge – is the strength of our actions.

THE TEAM

We are a multidisciplinary team, which has been working together for over 20 years, focused on optimizing the synergy between our various sectors, to present timely, creative, and responsible solutions for our clients.

ALLIANCES AND ASSOCIATIONS

We are exclusive members of Red Legal Iberoamericana in Brazil.

The alliance has the collaboration of prestigious law firms in 20 jurisdictions in Latin America and Europe, United by leadership, history, and recognition.

Over 1000 lawyers that are part of the Red Legal Iberoamericana (RLI), distributed in 28 offices of 14 law firms, are committed to creating new ways of collaboration that enable the identification and generation of new business opportunities, by taking advantage of the synergy created by working together.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Our clients rely on an interdisciplinary and complementary team of lawyers, who work with a focus on excellence in the main areas of law.

Corporate and M&A

HRSA provides a broad and complete service in all aspects of corporate law. We advise clients in the acquisition and sale of equity holdings, making and receiving domestic and foreign investments, and planning and implementing several types of corporate reorganization. Our expertise includes spin-offs, mergers, contributions, and restitution of assets and equity holdings. The firm has more than two decades of experience in a wide variety of transactions, including purchases and sales, investments and divestitures, consolidations, venture capital, and private equity, in almost all sectors of the economy. We provide support to corporate routines, the formation of joint ventures, and the design and negotiation of shareholders’ or partners’ agreements.

Dispute Resolution

HRSA’s Dispute Resolution team has been working together for more than two decades in highly complex strategic litigation. Our expertise comprises a variety of legal proceedings, such as civil, commercial, regulatory, health, administrative, trademark, and patent litigation, among others. Our practice is renowned in the market both for its practice in judicial and administrative dispute resolution, at the federal, state, and municipal levels. The firm acts with frequent argumentativeness and interaction with the Judiciary Branch. We highlight our practice in disputes against the Government, corporate, private wealth law litigation, contractual disputes in general, collection, execution, and strategic consumer law cases. Our arbitration practice comprehends strategy preparation and definition, selection of arbitrators, initiation, and conduction of national and international arbitration procedures. Our assistance includes the subsequent steps of the procedures, such as ratification and enforcement of domestic or international arbitration awards and judgments.

Labour & Employment

HRSA’s Labour & Employment practice serves large corporate groups, medium, and small-sized companies, as well as individuals. We provide services as advisors and in the resolution of administrative or judicial disputes. We provide excellence in strategic issues involving several types of employment relationships relevant to the business activity. In addition, we offer strategic, effective, and safe solutions in the structuring and regulation of Private Pension Funds, collective bargaining, union classification and inspection, and regulation and self-regulation of economic and professional activities and class entities. Our Labour team assists clients with risk assessment and litigation prevention, always bearing in mind tax impacts, social security, and social charges. Our practice encompasses drafting contracts, internal rules and regulations, organizational restructuring, incentive programs, attraction and retention of talent, career plans, compensation, and benefits. We seek to defend our clients’ best interests by providing structured and well-grounded advice, which results from rigorous analysis and presentation of evidence. We practice before the Labor and Federal Courts, the Federal Supreme Court, the Labor Prosecution Office, Labor, and Social Security Inspection in all states.

Media and Entertainment

HRSA’s attorneys have deep expertise in entertainment and media law, having worked in cases of extreme relevance for the industry and having clients from entire market segments, such as streaming companies, broadcasting companies, agencies, content producers, and distributors, including majors and independents. Our practice includes both transactional and litigation aspects.

Private Wealth

HRSA has a specialized team with wide experience in Private Wealth, focused on tailored services to each client’s needs. The team acts in counseling and defending consensual matters and in litigious disputes related to marriage, stable union, divorce, inventories, interdiction, and other related issues. Working alongside the tax, real estate, and corporate departments, the firm has a strong presence and experience in advisory services of a multidisciplinary nature, notably in organizing and structuring family estate and probate planning, both nationally and internationally.

Real Estate

The firm has consolidated experience in typical real estate transactions and in structuring complex and innovative operations involving both urban and rural properties. Our work is recognized in different segments, including audits, risk analysis related to real estate assets and guarantees, studies of urban planning aspects for purposes of real estate lawfulness, and the structuring of highly diverse businesses. Moreover, we assist with negotiating, drafting, and reviewing contracts. The Real Estate team is composed of lawyers who develop their strategies in constant cooperation with other areas of the firm to offer the best alternatives to our clients.

Tax

HRSA’s tax practice serves large business groups, medium, and small-sized companies, as well as individuals. We provide services as advisors and in the resolution of administrative or judicial controversies. Always considering the most up-to-date legislation and court precedents, our experienced professionals provide our clients with a broad view so they can make assertive decisions on different tax issues.

Technology, innovation, and Internet

HRSA has vast experience in assisting clients with businesses involving technology, innovation, the internet, crypto-economy, blockchain, web 3.0, metaverse, and digital business. We provide advice on regulatory issues, product development, licensing, technology transfer, transactions, and litigation, especially in products and services with intersections in the financial and capital markets.

OFFICES

R. Minas de Prata, 30 - 15° Andar - Itaim Bibi, São Paulo - SP, 04552-080

+ 55 11 4550-3950