Tojal Renault Advogados Associados

Founding Partners: Sebastião Botto de Barros Tojal and Sérgio Rabello Tamm Renault

Partners: Jorge Henrique de Oliveira Souza, Renata Rocha Villela and Débora Sotto

Number of associates: 21

Location: Alameda Itu, 852, 14th Floor | Cerqueira César | 05372-080 | São Paulo | Brazil

Telephone: +55 (11) 3279-3500

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.tojalrenault.com.br

Languages: English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish

Firm Overview:

Over its 40 years of history, Tojal Renault Advogados has built the reputation of a highly specialised firm, acting in the advisory and litigation areas throughout the national territory.

The firm joins tradition and great experience and combines all this history with an exclusive look for each case it takes on. The firm always seeks to understand the business and the needs of its clients, with the objective of offering assertive, effective services that bring real results.

The firm is proud to act with ethics and it maintains high technical precision in the performance of its functions. All these features reflect in the work of its entire team, which are stimulated daily through rapport, dedication, availability and proximity to its clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

Political Agents & Public Servants:

• Disciplinary Proceedings
• Investigations in Accountability Offices, Public Prosecution Offices, Court of Auditors
• Specific topics that are internally addressed in the respective public bodies (direct administration, local authorities, state-owned and private-public companies)

Compliance & Anti-corruption:

• Assistance in the implementation of integrity programs, aligned with national guidelines issued by the Accountability Office and other control bodies, as well as with international guidelines, arising from the provisions found in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and in the UK Bribery Act
• Institutional design of the integrity program, the firm works in order to ensure its effectiveness
• Training
• Internal investigations
• Complaint investigations
• Due diligences

Investigations, Public Civil Actions & Administrative Misconduct:

• Institutional relationships, seeking judicial, administrative or business solutions (agreements)
• Monitoring of investigations and administrative procedures conducted in the various public sector bodies, such as Public Prosecutors Office and Parliamentary Committees of Inquiry (CPI's)
• Impact and risk analysis
• Development of strategies aimed at the adoption of preventive measures
• Defence of companies, public agents and private agents in investigations and lawsuits aimed at investigating undue acts and reimbursement to the public treasury

Bids & Administrative Contracts:

• Assistance to those interested in participating in bidding procedures or those who already explore activities through administrative contracts, coming from public-private partnerships, concessions, permissions and authorisations
• Meeting the needs of relationships with the Public Administration, assisting in all stages from the preparatory procedures for bidding to the execution of administrative contracts
• Participation in public hearings
• Integrated analysis of the public notice
• Structuring of proposals, as well as the preparation of documents, both in the administrative and judicial spheres, aiming at questioning acts performed in the scope of bidding and providing better service to meet the interests of clients
• Development of strategies and preparation of legal opinions related to modeling, implementation of the project and maintenance of the economic-financial balance of the contract

Negotiation of Agreements with State Authorities:

• Negotiation with Public Authorities, whether political, corporate, criminal or administrative in nature
• Negotiations for the reaching of leniency agreements based on the Anti-Corruption Law (Law No. 12,846/2013)
• Negotiations for conduct adjustment terms (TAC's) and substitute sanction agreements within regulatory agencies

Regulation:

• Assistance with agents who work in regulated sectors, whether those who provide public service under delegation or those who exploit economic activity
• Representation before the control and supervisory bodies in the litigation sphere, in administrative proceedings arising from the state's police power, implementation of contractual and regulatory obligations or those filed for the restoration of the economic and financial balance of contracts and for tariff review, as well as the judicial representation of these interests
• Drafting of opinions
• Risk assessments
• Strategies and policies related to regulated services with a view to providing all the necessary subsidies for decision-making

Urban & Environmental Areas:

• Consulting in the preparation, application and interpretation of Master Plans
• Preparation, application and interpretation of the discipline of land use and occupation
• Preparation, implementation and interpretation of sectoral urban plans, such as Urban Mobility Plan, Environmental Sanitation Plan, Solid Waste Plan
• Full monitoring of the urban licensing process before the Municipality
• Processes involving urban restrictions or limitations
• Modeling of consortium urban operations and urban planning in the form of Public-Private Partnerships and their types