Lefosse Advogados

Banking, Operations and Financial Services

Our Banking and Finance practice is recognized for technical precision, market knowledge, and experience in domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions.

We execute cross-border and domestic banking transactions, national and international capital markets operations, structured transactions, and restructurings, with a focus on financial services.

Capital Markets

Fundraising with regulatory discipline, quality disclosure, and execution precision — in Brazil and abroad.

We act for issuers, selling shareholders, and coordinators in public and private offerings (CVM/B3, 144A/Reg S, ADRs, BDRs), combining solid legal architecture, well-managed timelines, and objective documentation. Our team integrates ECM (IPOs, follow-ons, block trades, equity-linked) and DCM (debentures, commercial notes, CRI/CRA, bonds/high-yield, convertibles), as well as liability management (tenders, exchanges, consent solicitations). We deliver closing certainty and continuous compliance, from registration/delisting of public companies to listing/delisting and technical interaction with CVM and B3.

Corporate and M&A

Our Corporate and M&A practice delivers end-to-end execution in complex transactions — from design to integration — with a focus on closing certainty, timing, and efficient risk allocation. We serve public and private companies, strategic and financial investors, with integrated work on tender offers, reorganizations, shareholder agreements, related-party transactions, and meetings.

We represent clients in all aspects of Brazilian corporate law and the public company regime (CVM), with extensive experience in regulated transactions and procedures, including public tender offers, mergers/share exchanges, and high-complexity governance.

ESG

We have structured a specialized team that integrates Environmental, Tax, Corporate, Compliance, Public Law, and Labor practices, offering complete solutions for implementing ESG policies, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Our work ranges from structuring sustainable projects to developing corporate governance programs.

We are also a reference in advising on carbon credit projects, supporting companies at every stage of the cycle: conception, certification, transactions, and regulatory compliance. With multidisciplinary expertise, we provide legal security and credibility for decarbonization initiatives and nature-based projects aligned with global emission reduction targets.

Investment Funds

With deep regulatory knowledge and market insight, we advise managers, administrators, and other industry players on sophisticated transactions, ensuring legal certainty and efficiency. Our practice covers liquid funds, alternative funds, and innovative strategies, with emphasis on real estate investment funds (FII), agribusiness production chain funds (FIAGRO), private equity funds (FIP), receivables funds (FIDC), infrastructure funds, and funds focused on special situations and capital solutions.

We also support asset management operations, including the formation and accreditation of new asset managers, fiduciary administrators, and other market participants, with special attention to governance and compliance aspects. We have solid experience in sale/acquisition transactions and corporate restructurings of fund market participants, having taken part in some of the industry’s most significant deals.

Project Development and Financing

Our work is grounded in solid legal expertise, with a focus on drafting and negotiating contracts applicable to all phases of the project – including modeling, construction, and operation. For the construction phase, we assist in drafting and negotiating supply agreements, construction management, service agreements, turnkey contracts, EPCs, TSAs, BOTs, among others. Regarding the operation phase, we provide advice on drafting and negotiating infrastructure sharing agreements, O&Ms, JOAs, PPAs, take-or-pay agreements, and other instruments aligned with international market standards. We also assist clients in drafting and negotiating all contracts required to obtain project financing, including initial CAPEX.

Real Estate

Our Real Estate practice combines technical expertise and strategic vision to deliver multidisciplinary and sophisticated solutions for real estate investments (direct or indirect) and for the development and management of real estate assets.

We also advise clients on a variety of matters related to urban properties (commercial or industrial) and rural properties. Our client base includes leading market investors, as well as managers and real estate investment funds.

Tax

Our Tax practice offers sophisticated legal solutions for companies facing tax challenges.

The team is led by experienced partners recognized in the market, with international experience and technical expertise in tax law, accounting, and corporate law. This combination allows us to understand the practical implications of our clients’ tax decisions and propose strategies aligned with business objectives.

The tax advisory we provide is integrated and innovative, covering consulting on complex issues involving direct and indirect taxes, including responses to client inquiries and tax structuring for investments, as well as tax aspects of M&A transactions, financial and capital markets operations, and infrastructure projects. We also have strong performance in administrative and judicial tax litigation, which we handle with technical excellence and a focus on results.

Corporate and M&A

Our Corporate and M&A practice delivers end-to-end execution in complex transactions — from design to integration — with a focus on closing certainty, timing, and efficient risk allocation. We serve public and private companies, strategic and financial investors, with integrated work on tender offers, reorganizations, shareholder agreements, related-party transactions, and meetings.

We represent clients in all aspects of Brazilian corporate law and the public company regime (CVM), with extensive experience in regulated transactions and procedures, including public tender offers, mergers/share exchanges, and high-complexity governance.

Dispute Resolution

We handle cases such as local and international contractual disputes, corporate disputes, construction and infrastructure disputes, administrative and judicial banking and corporate litigation, commercial disputes, collection/execution, product liability, environmental, and antitrust matters.

We provide top-tier advice in highly complex situations and crisis management, representing major national corporations, financial institutions, government entities, international investors, and multinational organizations.

Tax

Our Tax practice offers sophisticated legal solutions for companies facing tax challenges.

The team is led by experienced partners recognized in the market, with international experience and technical expertise in tax law, accounting, and corporate law. This combination allows us to understand the practical implications of our clients’ tax decisions and propose strategies aligned with business objectives.

The tax advisory we provide is integrated and innovative, covering consulting on complex issues involving direct and indirect taxes, including responses to client inquiries and tax structuring for investments, as well as tax aspects of M&A transactions, financial and capital markets operations, and infrastructure projects. We also have strong performance in administrative and judicial tax litigation, which we handle with technical excellence and a focus on results.

Agribusiness

Our multidisciplinary team of agribusiness lawyers offers complete and practical legal solutions for the most complex challenges in the agro-industrial chain.

With excellence in landmark transactions in the sector, including capital markets offerings, we ensure a business-oriented approach, always attentive to opportunities, innovations, technologies, and ESG issues.

With integrated consulting in areas such as Environmental, Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A, Dispute Resolution, and Tax, our Agribusiness practice is a reference for companies seeking legal security and efficiency. We operate in strategic transactions involving financing, fund structuring, land regularization, and regulation of new solutions, including carbon markets and sustainable projects.

Aviation

We advise airlines, airport concessionaires, manufacturers, and global investors. We have strong expertise in airport infrastructure projects, privatizations, and slot regulation, with experience in both major international players’ claims and administrative disputes.

We closely monitor sector decisions and legislative changes, providing greater legal security to clients, including key points of ANAC’s Regulatory Agenda and the airport infrastructure concession agenda.

Energy

We combine regulatory knowledge and understanding of clients’ business models to deliver customized, efficient, and innovative solutions. Our work covers legal-regulatory consulting, transactions and complex operations in the Free Contracting Environment (ACL) and Regulated Environment (ACR), advisory and participation in generation and transmission auctions, and issuance of legal opinions.

We also have a strong presence in specialized energy regulatory disputes, representing companies in the sector both in the administrative sphere (MME, ANEEL, EPE, ONS, and CCEE) and in judicial and arbitral proceedings.

Environmental

We work to mitigate risks and address contingencies, ensuring legal certainty for companies facing complex challenges.

Our environmental lawyers provide comprehensive advice on all matters related to Brazilian legislation. We work with technical excellence and strategic vision, always aligned with clients’ objectives. This personalized approach adds value and strengthens environmental risk management.

Insurance, Reinsurance and Private Pensions

We have extensive experience in regulatory consulting, contracts (representation, stipulation, commercial and operational agreements, and reinsurance), registration and licensing of companies in the sector, review and drafting of contractual conditions, corporate transactions, and significant deals requiring regulatory approval (portfolio transfers, sponsorship withdrawal, management transfer, among others), administrative sanctioning proceedings, strategic litigation, and claims.

Life Sciences and Healthcare

We advise companies on matters related to healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food and beverages, biodiversity and biotechnology, cosmetics, fertilizers, healthtechs, telemedicine, among others.

Given the sector’s innovative nature and high investment volume, legal challenges must be addressed by professionals familiar with the healthcare industry. Our team combines regulatory, contractual, litigation, criminal, antitrust, intellectual property, and other legal expertise to deliver complete and tailored solutions.

Maritime and Port

Our Maritime and Port practice stands out for its strategic and integrated approach in navigation, offshore services, and public and private terminals. We represent a wide range of clients, including shipowners, cargo owners, private equity funds, and financial institutions, offering comprehensive and tailored legal solutions for every need. The firm is recognized for its leadership in high-impact transactions, such as the largest M&A in the Brazilian port sector, as well as innovative projects shaping the future of the industry.

With proven experience in sophisticated cases, our team is prepared to handle regulatory, transactional, contractual, and dispute resolution matters, always focused on technical excellence and value generation for our clients. We act as strategic partners to major market players, contributing to the development of the maritime and port sector in Brazil.

Mining

In synergy with various legal practices, our team includes highly experienced lawyers and partners who have in-depth knowledge of the sector’s dynamics, its public and private players, and its regulatory framework, enabling us to meet the demands of clients with interests or operations at any stage of the mining production chain.

Your plan may be to access the market, finance, acquire, sell, or design and develop a mining project, obtain a mining title, engage with communities, governments or other stakeholders, structure a complex transaction, enter into a strategic partnership, develop internal policies or resolve a dispute. In any case, we will be your partner in that plan, at every stage.

Oil and Gas

We combine regulatory knowledge and practical experience to support companies in complex transactions, enabling us to be part of the panel of law firms for leading industry players.

We have participated in significant projects in the sector, including the opening of the refining market, the creation of the new natural gas market, and initiatives focused on energy transition and the ESG agenda. Our team is composed of professionals with experience in law firms, companies, and regulatory agencies, ensuring a broad perspective and solutions aligned with client needs.

Public Law and Regulation

We structure projects involving public entities, including joint ventures, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions of public assets, as well as bidding processes and administrative contracts, concessions, PPPs, administrative proceedings, and contractual rebalance.

We specialize in Public Law and market regulation with extensive experience in privatization and concession projects, as well as markets regulated by the government, especially in telecommunications, media and audiovisual, civil aviation, airports, highways, mining, gaming & betting, sanitation, infrastructure, ports, defense, and public services in general. We handle both transactional and advisory aspects, as well as contentious matters, ensuring comprehensive solutions for complex operations.

Sports Betting

We are at the forefront of the betting industry, with consolidated experience even before the enactment of Federal Law No. 14,790/2023.

Our multidisciplinary team provides strategic and tailored guidance for betting operators, investors, and companies seeking legal security and efficiency. With experience in gaming, lotteries, and betting, our lawyers deliver solutions that meet all regulatory requirements.

Technology, Data Protection and Intellectual Property

Our lawyers specializing in data protection and intellectual property have extensive knowledge of digital business models. Working in an integrated manner with other areas of the firm, we provide consulting for companies such as fintechs, healthtechs, insurtechs, and startups.

Recognized as one of the leading data protection law firms globally, we combine a multidisciplinary perspective with attention to market trends. We are ready to deliver specialized, efficient legal advice aligned with each client’s objectives and needs.

Telecommunications

With unique expertise in satellites, submarine cables, telecommunications infrastructure and networks, towers, radiofrequency auctions, fiber optics, and telecom products and equipment, we assist clients in all phases of licensing, regulatory compliance, approvals for emerging technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and administrative proceedings.

Our experience includes satellites, submarine cables, telecom networks and towers, radiofrequency auctions, fiber optics, and emerging technologies such as IoT and 5G.

Compliance and Investigations

Our team of compliance and corporate governance specialists is composed of highly qualified professionals with extensive experience advising Brazilian and international clients. We handle highly complex cases, both in prevention and in crisis management and risk mitigation, with a strong focus on compliance investigations.

Our multidisciplinary team brings together experts in Corporate Law, Governance, Civil and Administrative Litigation, and Competition Law. This integration enables a comprehensive and strategic approach aligned with each client’s specific needs.

Competition and Antitrust

We work on M&A transactions, investigations, and complex litigation, as well as preventive consulting for Brazilian and international companies. Our approach is strategic, multidisciplinary, and aligned with business objectives, ensuring effective and secure solutions.

With solid experience in Competition and Antitrust, we represent clients before CADE, regulatory agencies, and the Judiciary. Our commitment is to deliver fast and assertive responses, mitigating risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Dispute Resolution

We handle cases such as local and international contractual disputes, corporate disputes, construction and infrastructure disputes, administrative and judicial banking and corporate litigation, commercial disputes, collection/execution, product liability, environmental, and antitrust matters.

We provide top-tier advice in highly complex situations and crisis management, representing major national corporations, financial institutions, government entities, international investors, and multinational organizations.

International Trade

We have deep knowledge of topics and agreements negotiated within the World Trade Organization (WTO) and experience in disputes handled by its Dispute Settlement Body. We advise companies on navigating regulatory and legal challenges imposed by international sanctions, trade defense measures, and tariff changes.

Labor

We help companies navigate Brazilian labor laws safely, identifying risks and developing effective strategies to avoid litigation and other disputes, both judicial and administrative — including collective matters and union negotiations.

With personalized service and direct involvement of partners and senior professionals, our team ensures attention to every stage of legal and strategic analysis. Our labor lawyers contribute to building better alternatives and solutions, focusing on risk prevention, reducing materialized liabilities, and optimizing workforce management costs, as well as attracting and retaining talent.

Restructuring and Insolvency

Our Restructuring and Insolvency practice was designed to serve companies, banks, investors, shareholders, government entities, and multinational organizations.

With a multidisciplinary team, we offer tailored solutions for financial reorganization, debt negotiation, and judicial, out-of-court, and bankruptcy proceedings. Our experience in restructuring includes strategic support for companies in crisis, always focused on risk mitigation and value preservation.

Tax

Our Tax practice offers sophisticated legal solutions for companies facing tax challenges.

The team is led by experienced partners recognized in the market, with international experience and technical expertise in tax law, accounting, and corporate law. This combination allows us to understand the practical implications of our clients’ tax decisions and propose strategies aligned with business objectives.

We have strong performance in administrative and judicial tax litigation, which we handle with technical excellence and a focus on results.