NHM Advogados

Nogueira, Haret, Melo e Maroli Advogados was founded by professionals with a solid legal background willing to offer a top tier and innovative thinking service and real understanding of our client’s needs.

With a team of experienced professionals bringing years of practice as lawyers and partners of some of the most traditional Brazilian law firms, used to work on complex transactions and cases, we are ready to offer our clients a high-level legal service, working close to them and understanding not only their needs, but also the peculiarities of their market.

The firm has a wide network of other law firms in Brazil and abroad that allows us to assist our clients in projects and cases in different, national and/or international, locations.

Nogueira, Haret, Melo e Maroli Advogados has as its main mission to provide personal, assertive and efficient attention to the demands of our clients, always observing the highest standards of quality, technique and result, aiming a long-lasting relationship with our clients and to be the law firm they can count on when they need.

Practice Areas

Administrative Law

– Consultancy and assistance in administrative and judicial procedures ground on legal relations with the Public Authorities;

– Consultancy and advice to companies willing to participate in bidding processes, involving (i) analysis of the bid documents and administrative contracts and (ii) drafting and selection of documents for the qualifying, technical price evaluation phases;

Agribusiness

– Preparation of memorandums and studies related to the Agribusiness;

– Representation of client on administrative and legal proceedings;

Antitrust Law

– Representation of clients with the National Council of Economic Defense (CADE);

– Review of corporate transactions under the light of the antitrust requirements;

Aviation Law

– Consultancy and judicial assistance on matters in the sphere of Aeronautical Law;

– Advice on aeronautical regulatory issues.

Compliance

– Consulting services on compliance and corporate governance matters, including CVM (Brazilian Stock Exchange Commission);

– Review and implementation of Compliance Programs and Internal Policies; and

– Consulting services on tax liabilities and potential tax crimes risks.

Contracts

– Preparation, negotiation and analysis of commercial contracts of the most diverse types, with a multidisciplinary and practical approach.

Corporate Law

– Consulting services in the most variated corporate matters;

– Corporate transactions and restructurings (acquisition of equity ownership and transfer of assets, mergers, takeovers and spin-offs);

– Registry of foreign corporate interest with the Brazilian Central Bank.

Dispute Resolution

–Representation of national and foreign clients in complex administrative, judicial and arbitration disputes, involving matters related to: life sciences, digital law, consumer law, environmental law, corporate law, agribusiness, contract law, energy law, construction law, intellectual property, among others;

–Representation of national and foreign clients in mediation proceedings;

Infrastructure

– Legal assistance in projects infrastructure and its contracts, such as as Built-to-suit;

– EPC (engineering, procurement and construction);

Intellectual Property

– Advice on management of intellectual property rights, including negotiation and valuation of technologies;

Labor and Employment

– Consulting services in individual and collective labor law;

– Contracts related to the labor practices;

– Drafting and review of policies and internal rules;

– Assistance with collective bargain negotiations;

M&A

– Consulting in M&A transactions involving national and/or foreign companies;

– Tax analysis and structuring of transactions of acquisition and sale of corporate interest and/or asset transfer in taxwise manner;

Regulatory Law

– Analysis of enrollment procedures with Public Authorities;

– Appeals before the public authorities;

– Assistance on the enrollment and issuance of licenses and operational permits;

Restructuring/Bankruptcy

– Consultancy on extrajudicial, judicial and / or bankruptcy recovery;

– Judicial administrator service;

– Legal advice in the preparation of a judicial reorganization plan;

Tax Law

– Consulting services on tax matters;

– Tax planning on corporate reorganizations;

– Succession planning;

– Tax assessment and planning and structuring of M&A transactions and corporate reorganizations, on a taxwise manner;

– Preparation of defense and appeals before the Public Tax Entity (Administração Pública Tributária);

– Representation of clients before the Tax Lower Courts or Appeal Courts of CARF (Administrative Council of Tax Appeals), TIT (Tax and Fees Court) or CMT (Municipal Council of Tax);

Social Security

– Consulting services in social security matters;

– Assistance on inspections proceedings;

– Preparation of defense on infraction notices issued by the Federal Revenue;

– Filing of declaratory or annulment measures;

– Preparation of due diligence reports on social security contingencies.