Bicalho Navarro Advogados

• Two offices: São Paulo and Brasília
• 11 partners
• 28 lawyers
• Founding partner: Rodrigo Cury Bicalho
• Key clients: Cyrela, Tegra, Unilever, XP
• Adresses:

São Paulo

Av Pres Juscelino Kubitschek, 1600

7º andar | CEP 04543 000

T 55 11 3016 5250

SIG Quadra 01 | Sala 253

Ed Barão do Rio Branco

T 55 61 3221 7585

Firm Overview

Practice focused on real estate transactions and investments, advising developers, investors, family offices and financial institutions, with over 20 years of experience in the sector. Bicalho Adv is marked by ceaseless search for excellence and effectiveness in the provision of legal services.

Main Areas of Practice

• Consultation (6 Partners)

• Purchase and sale, exchange, due diligence and negotiation of guarantees.
• Condominium projects, including mixed-use, complex and stepwise undertakings.
• Development of subdivisions and planned communities, as well as structuring of real estate and corporate partnerships.
• Structuring of projects in the residential, corporate, shopping center, logistics and industrial park areas.
• Leases and structured transactions, including built to suit and sale and lease back.
• Transactions involving acquisition or lease of real estate by foreign groups.
• Structuring of hotel projects, such as condo-hotels, tourist resorts and time-share undertakings.
• Interface with the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM) for registration of bond issues for real estate projects.
• Regularization of property title.

• Litigation and Dispute Resolution (1 Partner)

• Representation in lawsuits, mediation and arbitration involving real estate.
• Measures to collect debts, execute guarantees and establish trust deeds.
• Disputes involving enforcement, revision or termination of real estate and business contracts.
• Lawsuits involving condominium projects, subdivisions and construction agreements.
• Strategic lawsuits involving themes with general repercussion in the real estate sector.
• Lawsuits for eviction, rent revision and renewal of lease agreements.
• Possessory actions.

• Environmental (1 Partner)

• Environmental litigation: public civil actions, civil inquiries, administrative defenses and appeals.
• Environmental licensing.
• Environmental regularization: consent decrees for environmental compensation (TCA), environmental reclamation (TCRA), and adjustment of conduct (TAC).
• Environmental auditing (urban and rural properties).
• Consulting for the acquisition of contaminated areas and in rehabilitation proceedings.
• Solid waste disposal.
• Environmental compliance.

• Urbanism (1 Partner)

• Litigation involving urban projects: public civil actions, civil inquiries, administrative defenses and appeals.
• Legal advice for the development and approval of projects for construction, remodeling/refurbishment, retrofit and others.
• Analysis of master plans, zoning ordinances and building codes.
• Building rights, paid grant and transfer of building rights.
• Landmarking and construction restrictions.
• Government-coordinated urban renewal projects and issuance of CEPACs (instruments for waiver of zoning rules).

• Corporate (1 Partner)

• Corporate planning for real estate development.
• Family business and succession planning.
• Establishment of companies, joint ventures, consortiums and other forms of partnership and association.
• Corporate restructuring, shareholder/partner agreements.
• Advice in transactions involving spin-offs, mergers and acquisitions.

• Tax (1 Partner)

• Tax consulting for real estate transactions and structuring of undertakings.
• Tax planning for mergers and acquisitions and other corporate restructuring transactions.
• Family and succession tax planning.
• Structuring of infrastructure projects.
• Transactions in the financial and capital markets.
• National and international tax planning.
• Judicial and administrative litigation involving federal, state and municipal taxes.