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Rolim, Goulart, Cardoso Advogados

Brazil Guide 2023

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Rolim, Goulart, Cardoso Advogados

Rolim, Goulart, Cardoso Advogados

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Provided by Rolim, Goulart, Cardoso Advogados
Brazil: Transactional

Managing Partner: João Dácio Rolim

Number of partners: 17

Number of other lawyers: 100


Firm Overview:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados is a law firm with an ongoing commitment to providing excellence in client service. With four branches in Brazil and two in Europe, it has been operating since 1993 in both Brazilian and international markets.

The firm’s major focus is on corporate law, and it provides its clients with a broad, diverse and complementary business structure. Staff draw on a strong academic background and extensive market experience, striving to offer continuous business improvement enhanced by a high degree of specialisation and promoting multidisciplinary interaction.

Conducting its business with the resourcefulness, versatility and independence demanded by the market, Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides all the legal tools needed for companies to operate in a competitive and safe environment. The training and preparation of staff and the international scope of the firm form a strategic vision that has effectively influenced its approach to business.

Business Vision:

A full understanding of the client’s business focus lies at the core of the services rendered by the firm. Personal and structured services assure the best alternatives to meet its client’s challenges. Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados’ natural talent to act proactively and deliver efficient performance are evidenced by its ability to integrate technical precision and creativity, specialisation and diversification, local focus and global vision, using a customised multi-skilled approach.

Culture & Practice:

The firm offers clients an especially skilled, multidisciplinary team composed of professionals that bring together practical experience and sound theoretical training, aiming at providing in-depth knowledge to its business strategies and at identifying innovate and affective legal solutions. A hallmark of the team is its combination of diversity and specialisation that enables the staff to reach opportunities for its clients. The company’s tax law operations underlying its business trajectory are a highlight of the firm’s business activities and maximise the efficient structuring of the corporate business advisory services provided by the law firm.

Main Areas of Practice:

Tax:

Acknowledged for its tradition and expertise, the firm operates jointly and coordinately for comprehensive and complete legal services. Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados represents clients in all aspects of national and international transactions ranging from structuring of tax efficient contracts, business transactions, infrastructure agreements to M&As.


Corporate/M&A:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides a wide range of corporate legal services comprising complex mergers and acquisitions, sophisticated corporate reorganisations, legal opinions, business acquisitions and all sorts of corporate transactions. It assists clients in the structuring of businesses in Brazil, Portugal and other countries.


Environment:

The firm’s main focus is on preventive consultancy, seeking to avoid the creation of technical or administrative environmental liabilities, as well as impairments to the development of potentially pollutant activities. The firm deals with negotiation with governmental bodies and administrative and judicial litigation on environmental matters.


Energy & Natural Resources:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados advises clients on structuring projects involving energy and natural resources. It assists several major energy companies and regulators providing legal opinions and conducting complex administrative and judicial litigations as well as arbitrations.


Oil & Gas:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados attorneys have vast experience in advising clients, drafting contracts and handling complex litigation for companies operating in the oil, gas, renewable and thermoelectric sectors.


Telecommunications:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados has been advising the major telecommunications companies in Brazil. The firm has the knowledge to assist clients on litigation and regulatory matters, counseling them on the negotiation of projects and deals and public bids.


Aviation:

The department has experience in representing aircraft manufacturers and national and foreign air companies, and carries out aircraft leasing and warranties negotiations as well as provides consulting on other matters involving the aviation sector. Infrastructure: Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides a wide range of legal services related to infrastructure projects, from PPPs to the construction of complex industrial plants, conducted by a team of experts in green and brown field investments.


Litigation & Arbitration:

The firm represents clients in commercial, regulatory and complex disputes and handles domestic and international arbitrations concerning business interests around the world.


Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.


Clients:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados represents a broad range of clients, from start-up businesses to multinational companies, highlighted players in all industries, such as automotive, consumer products, food and drink, mining, oil and gas, energy, services, banking, steel, aviation, infrastructure, real estate, transportation/logistics and telecommunications.

Brazil: Regions

Managing Partner: João Dácio Rolim

Number of partners: 17

Number of other lawyers: 100


Firm Overview:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados is a law firm with an ongoing commitment to providing excellence in client service. With four branches in Brazil and two in Europe, it has been operating since 1993 in both Brazilian and international markets.

The firm’s major focus is on corporate law, and it provides its clients with a broad, diverse and complementary business structure. Staff draw on a strong academic background and extensive market experience, striving to offer continuous business improvement enhanced by a high degree of specialisation and promoting multidisciplinary interaction.

Conducting its business with the resourcefulness, versatility and independence demanded by the market, Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides all the legal tools needed for companies to operate in a competitive and safe environment. The training and preparation of staff and the international scope of the firm form a strategic vision that has effectively influenced its approach to business.

Business Vision:

A full understanding of the client’s business focus lies at the core of the services rendered by the firm. Personal and structured services assure the best alternatives to meet its client’s challenges. Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados’ natural talent to act proactively and deliver efficient performance are evidenced by its ability to integrate technical precision and creativity, specialisation and diversification, local focus and global vision, using a customised multi-skilled approach.

Culture & Practice:

The firm offers clients an especially skilled, multidisciplinary team composed of professionals that bring together practical experience and sound theoretical training, aiming at providing in-depth knowledge to its business strategies and at identifying innovate and affective legal solutions. A hallmark of the team is its combination of diversity and specialisation that enables the staff to reach opportunities for its clients. The company’s tax law operations underlying its business trajectory are a highlight of the firm’s business activities and maximise the efficient structuring of the corporate business advisory services provided by the law firm.

Main Areas of Practice:

Tax:

Acknowledged for its tradition and expertise, the firm operates jointly and coordinately for comprehensive and complete legal services. Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados represents clients in all aspects of national and international transactions ranging from structuring of tax efficient contracts, business transactions, infrastructure agreements to M&As.


Corporate/M&A:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides a wide range of corporate legal services comprising complex mergers and acquisitions, sophisticated corporate reorganisations, legal opinions, business acquisitions and all sorts of corporate transactions. It assists clients in the structuring of businesses in Brazil, Portugal and other countries.


Environment:

The firm’s main focus is on preventive consultancy, seeking to avoid the creation of technical or administrative environmental liabilities, as well as impairments to the development of potentially pollutant activities. The firm deals with negotiation with governmental bodies and administrative and judicial litigation on environmental matters.


Energy & Natural Resources:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados advises clients on structuring projects involving energy and natural resources. It assists several major energy companies and regulators providing legal opinions and conducting complex administrative and judicial litigations as well as arbitrations.


Oil & Gas:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados attorneys have vast experience in advising clients, drafting contracts and handling complex litigation for companies operating in the oil, gas, renewable and thermoelectric sectors.


Telecommunications:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados has been advising the major telecommunications companies in Brazil. The firm has the knowledge to assist clients on litigation and regulatory matters, counseling them on the negotiation of projects and deals and public bids.


Aviation:

The department has experience in representing aircraft manufacturers and national and foreign air companies, and carries out aircraft leasing and warranties negotiations as well as provides consulting on other matters involving the aviation sector. Infrastructure: Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides a wide range of legal services related to infrastructure projects, from PPPs to the construction of complex industrial plants, conducted by a team of experts in green and brown field investments.


Litigation & Arbitration:

The firm represents clients in commercial, regulatory and complex disputes and handles domestic and international arbitrations concerning business interests around the world.


Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.


Clients:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados represents a broad range of clients, from start-up businesses to multinational companies, highlighted players in all industries, such as automotive, consumer products, food and drink, mining, oil and gas, energy, services, banking, steel, aviation, infrastructure, real estate, transportation/logistics and telecommunications.

Brazil: Industries & Sectors

Managing Partner: João Dácio Rolim

Number of partners: 17

Number of other lawyers: 100


Firm Overview:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados is a law firm with an ongoing commitment to providing excellence in client service. With four branches in Brazil and two in Europe, it has been operating since 1993 in both Brazilian and international markets.

The firm’s major focus is on corporate law, and it provides its clients with a broad, diverse and complementary business structure. Staff draw on a strong academic background and extensive market experience, striving to offer continuous business improvement enhanced by a high degree of specialisation and promoting multidisciplinary interaction.

Conducting its business with the resourcefulness, versatility and independence demanded by the market, Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides all the legal tools needed for companies to operate in a competitive and safe environment. The training and preparation of staff and the international scope of the firm form a strategic vision that has effectively influenced its approach to business.

Business Vision:

A full understanding of the client’s business focus lies at the core of the services rendered by the firm. Personal and structured services assure the best alternatives to meet its client’s challenges. Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados’ natural talent to act proactively and deliver efficient performance are evidenced by its ability to integrate technical precision and creativity, specialisation and diversification, local focus and global vision, using a customised multi-skilled approach.

Culture & Practice:

The firm offers clients an especially skilled, multidisciplinary team composed of professionals that bring together practical experience and sound theoretical training, aiming at providing in-depth knowledge to its business strategies and at identifying innovate and affective legal solutions. A hallmark of the team is its combination of diversity and specialisation that enables the staff to reach opportunities for its clients. The company’s tax law operations underlying its business trajectory are a highlight of the firm’s business activities and maximise the efficient structuring of the corporate business advisory services provided by the law firm.

Main Areas of Practice:

Tax:

Acknowledged for its tradition and expertise, the firm operates jointly and coordinately for comprehensive and complete legal services. Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados represents clients in all aspects of national and international transactions ranging from structuring of tax efficient contracts, business transactions, infrastructure agreements to M&As.


Corporate/M&A:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides a wide range of corporate legal services comprising complex mergers and acquisitions, sophisticated corporate reorganisations, legal opinions, business acquisitions and all sorts of corporate transactions. It assists clients in the structuring of businesses in Brazil, Portugal and other countries.


Environment:

The firm’s main focus is on preventive consultancy, seeking to avoid the creation of technical or administrative environmental liabilities, as well as impairments to the development of potentially pollutant activities. The firm deals with negotiation with governmental bodies and administrative and judicial litigation on environmental matters.


Energy & Natural Resources:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados advises clients on structuring projects involving energy and natural resources. It assists several major energy companies and regulators providing legal opinions and conducting complex administrative and judicial litigations as well as arbitrations.


Oil & Gas:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados attorneys have vast experience in advising clients, drafting contracts and handling complex litigation for companies operating in the oil, gas, renewable and thermoelectric sectors.


Telecommunications:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados has been advising the major telecommunications companies in Brazil. The firm has the knowledge to assist clients on litigation and regulatory matters, counseling them on the negotiation of projects and deals and public bids.


Aviation:

The department has experience in representing aircraft manufacturers and national and foreign air companies, and carries out aircraft leasing and warranties negotiations as well as provides consulting on other matters involving the aviation sector. Infrastructure: Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides a wide range of legal services related to infrastructure projects, from PPPs to the construction of complex industrial plants, conducted by a team of experts in green and brown field investments.


Litigation & Arbitration:

The firm represents clients in commercial, regulatory and complex disputes and handles domestic and international arbitrations concerning business interests around the world.


Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.


Clients:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados represents a broad range of clients, from start-up businesses to multinational companies, highlighted players in all industries, such as automotive, consumer products, food and drink, mining, oil and gas, energy, services, banking, steel, aviation, infrastructure, real estate, transportation/logistics and telecommunications.

Brazil: Contentious

Managing Partner: João Dácio Rolim

Number of partners: 17

Number of other lawyers: 100


Firm Overview:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados is a law firm with an ongoing commitment to providing excellence in client service. With four branches in Brazil and two in Europe, it has been operating since 1993 in both Brazilian and international markets.

The firm’s major focus is on corporate law, and it provides its clients with a broad, diverse and complementary business structure. Staff draw on a strong academic background and extensive market experience, striving to offer continuous business improvement enhanced by a high degree of specialisation and promoting multidisciplinary interaction.

Conducting its business with the resourcefulness, versatility and independence demanded by the market, Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides all the legal tools needed for companies to operate in a competitive and safe environment. The training and preparation of staff and the international scope of the firm form a strategic vision that has effectively influenced its approach to business.

Business Vision:

A full understanding of the client’s business focus lies at the core of the services rendered by the firm. Personal and structured services assure the best alternatives to meet its client’s challenges. Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados’ natural talent to act proactively and deliver efficient performance are evidenced by its ability to integrate technical precision and creativity, specialisation and diversification, local focus and global vision, using a customised multi-skilled approach.

Culture & Practice:

The firm offers clients an especially skilled, multidisciplinary team composed of professionals that bring together practical experience and sound theoretical training, aiming at providing in-depth knowledge to its business strategies and at identifying innovate and affective legal solutions. A hallmark of the team is its combination of diversity and specialisation that enables the staff to reach opportunities for its clients. The company’s tax law operations underlying its business trajectory are a highlight of the firm’s business activities and maximise the efficient structuring of the corporate business advisory services provided by the law firm.

Main Areas of Practice:

Tax:

Acknowledged for its tradition and expertise, the firm operates jointly and coordinately for comprehensive and complete legal services. Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados represents clients in all aspects of national and international transactions ranging from structuring of tax efficient contracts, business transactions, infrastructure agreements to M&As.


Corporate/M&A:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides a wide range of corporate legal services comprising complex mergers and acquisitions, sophisticated corporate reorganisations, legal opinions, business acquisitions and all sorts of corporate transactions. It assists clients in the structuring of businesses in Brazil, Portugal and other countries.


Environment:

The firm’s main focus is on preventive consultancy, seeking to avoid the creation of technical or administrative environmental liabilities, as well as impairments to the development of potentially pollutant activities. The firm deals with negotiation with governmental bodies and administrative and judicial litigation on environmental matters.


Energy & Natural Resources:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados advises clients on structuring projects involving energy and natural resources. It assists several major energy companies and regulators providing legal opinions and conducting complex administrative and judicial litigations as well as arbitrations.


Oil & Gas:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados attorneys have vast experience in advising clients, drafting contracts and handling complex litigation for companies operating in the oil, gas, renewable and thermoelectric sectors.


Telecommunications:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados has been advising the major telecommunications companies in Brazil. The firm has the knowledge to assist clients on litigation and regulatory matters, counseling them on the negotiation of projects and deals and public bids.


Aviation:

The department has experience in representing aircraft manufacturers and national and foreign air companies, and carries out aircraft leasing and warranties negotiations as well as provides consulting on other matters involving the aviation sector. Infrastructure: Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados provides a wide range of legal services related to infrastructure projects, from PPPs to the construction of complex industrial plants, conducted by a team of experts in green and brown field investments.


Litigation & Arbitration:

The firm represents clients in commercial, regulatory and complex disputes and handles domestic and international arbitrations concerning business interests around the world.


Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.


Clients:

Rolim Goulart Cardoso Advogados represents a broad range of clients, from start-up businesses to multinational companies, highlighted players in all industries, such as automotive, consumer products, food and drink, mining, oil and gas, energy, services, banking, steel, aviation, infrastructure, real estate, transportation/logistics and telecommunications.

Ranked Offices

Provided by Rolim, Goulart, Cardoso Advogados

Brazil - Head office
Brazil
  • Brasília - DF
    Centro Empresarial Norte, SRTN quadra 701, Conj. C. n. 124, salas 515, 517 e 519, Ala B , Brasília - DF, Distrito Federal, Brazil, 70719-900
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    São Paulo - SP
    Alameda Santos, nº 1940, 5º andar Cerqueira César , São Paulo - SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 01418-200
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Portugal
  • Lisbon
    Av. Casal Ribeiro, nº 14, 9º andar , Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 1000-092
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Contributions

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Global Practice Guide
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Fabio Appendino, Sophia Galbas Rezende, Vitor Sarmento de Mello
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Daniel Tardelli Pessoa
Alessandra Rezende Torres
Rodrigo Dias
Luis Felipe de Campos
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Rolim, Goulart, Cardoso Advogados rankings

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Brazil
Corporate/Commercial: Minas Gerais
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Corporate/Commercial: Minas Gerais
2
Corporate/Commercial: Minas Gerais
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Fábio Appendino
2
Fábio Appendino
2
Band 2
Luis Gustavo Miranda de Oliveira
3
Luis Gustavo Miranda de Oliveira
3
Band 3
Alessandra Rezende Torres
Alessandra Rezende Torres
Associates to watch
Dispute Resolution: Minas Gerais
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Dispute Resolution: Minas Gerais
3
Dispute Resolution: Minas Gerais
3
Band 3
Lawyers
Helvécio Franco Maia Júnior
3
Helvécio Franco Maia Júnior
3
Band 3
Energy & Natural Resources: Power
1 Department
3 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Energy & Natural Resources: Power
2
Energy & Natural Resources: Power
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Maria João Rolim
1
Maria João Rolim
1
Band 1
Alice Siqueira Khouri
Alice Siqueira Khouri
Associates to watch
Elise Calixto Hale Crystal
Elise Calixto Hale Crystal
Associates to watch
Tax Litigation: Highly Regarded
1 Department
Department
Tax Litigation: Highly Regarded
1
Tax Litigation: Highly Regarded
1
Band 1
Tax Non-contentious: Highly Regarded
1 Department
Department
Tax Non-contentious: Highly Regarded
2
Tax Non-contentious: Highly Regarded
2
Band 2
Tax: Litigation
2 Ranked Lawyers
Lawyers
João Dácio Rolim
4
João Dácio Rolim
4
Band 4
Daniela Silveira Lara
5
Daniela Silveira Lara
5
Band 5
Tax: Minas Gerais
1 Department
2 Ranked Lawyers
Department
Tax: Minas Gerais
2
Tax: Minas Gerais
2
Band 2
Lawyers
Alessandro Mendes Cardoso
2
Alessandro Mendes Cardoso
2
Band 2
Luciana Goulart Ferreira Saliba
4
Luciana Goulart Ferreira Saliba
4
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Telecommunications
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Telecommunications
2
Telecommunications
2
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Ticiane Moraes Franco
3
Ticiane Moraes Franco
3
Band 3