Moreira Menezes Martins Advogados

Founded based on the concept of a boutique firm, it offers outstanding personalized service to clients in the area of corporate law and litigation. The firm invests in the professional and academic growth of its members to enable them to develop the skills to become future partners. Our office in São Paulo is strategically located in a modern building in the Vila Olímpia neighborhood, while the Rio de Janeiro office is based in a charming house in the Ipanema neighborhood, both offering a sophisticated environment and easy access, to increase the convenience and save time of clients. The firm serves clients with business interests throughout Brazil as well as abroad.

Main areas of practice
M&A and private equity: the firm’s lawyers have a solid background in M&A transactions. The main services rendered by the firm in the field of M&A and private equity are described below: coordination of the parties involved in the transaction; conduction of complete legal due diligence; assistance in organizing the data room; formulation of the legal structure of the transaction; preparation of the legal documents to support the deal; participation in negotiating the terms and conditions of the deal; definition and negotiation of the governance structure of the target company after the merger or acquisition, with preparation of the respective legal instruments; and preparation of legal opinions and memorandums on the legal aspects of transaction.

Capital markets: the firm’s lawyers have solid experience in capital market transactions and associated activities, including assistance regarding compliance by market agents with the obligations imposed by regulators and exchanges, including defense of their interests in administrative proceedings.

Governance, restructuring and succession planning

Assistance with equity investments: the firm’s lawyers have experience in helping clients with equity investments, including in situations of stress involving corporate or investment vehicles. The partners’ experience includes the defense of clients’ positions in listed and unlisted corporations, equity investment funds (FIPs), limited liability companies, consortiums, joint ventures and other entities, including enterprises under family control or control of professional investors. These engagements are not summarized here due to considerations of attorney-client confidentiality.

Contracts and business transactions: the firm´s lawyers have experience in the full range of business contracts, with the necessary expertise to lead the negotiation and contribute to the establishment of solid contractual models that reduce risks.

Infrastructure: the firm’s lawyers have solid experience in experience in infrastructure area, providing legal advice in construction, energy, transportation, telecommunications, mining and sanitation areas, among others, as well as legal advice related to development, award and implementation of public and private projects.

Real estate transactions: the firm’s lawyers have solid experience in real estate questions and assist clients with needs related to the structuring of real estate transactions, including securitization of receivables, issuance of bonds backed by real estate, establishment of real estate investment funds, development of, including securitization of receivables, issuance of bonds backed by real estate, establishment of real estate investment funds, development of shopping centers, sale of hotel condo units and various types of financing for property undertakings.

Financial restructuring, reorganization and bankruptcy: the firm’s lawyers have experience in protecting the multiple interests involved in situations of business distress, encompassing financial restructuring, negotiation of overall debt workouts (including judicial ratification), court-supervised reorganization and bankruptcy. They work to defend the interests of (i) creditors, by preserving their rights and maximizing their recovery; and (ii) debtors, by rationalizing the company’s organization or, as the case may be, orderly liquidation of assets.

Structured financial transactions: “Structured transactions” means projects for financing that include issuance of securities (real estate credit notes, real estate receivable certificates, bank credit notes, agribusiness credit letters and receivable certificates, etc.) for trading in over-the-counter markets or securities exchanges.

Litigation, arbitration and mediation: the firm’s partners have experience in the conduction and resolution of corporate and capital market disputes in the courts and through arbitration, as well as in representation in administrative investigations and penalty proceedings. This practice includes: representation of clients in lawsuits of a civil, corporate and banking nature, at all levels, as well as administrative proceedings; representation of clients in arbitration in Brazil and abroad, as well as support in the use of other alternative dispute resolution methods; analysis of lawsuits and administrative proceedings for audit purposes, to identify and quantify contingent liabilities.

Anticorruption: legal representation in anti-corruption matters also aims to defend businesses from formal accusations made by public authorities, and to support firms in: (i) investigations and other processes conducted by public authorities, such as prosecutors and judges; and (ii) negotiation and formalization of leniency agreements, with national and international scope.

Pro bono activities | research and development: The firm sponsors Revista Semestral de Direito Empresarial, edited by Mauricio Moreira Menezes, partner and professor at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ) Law School, along with Professor Sergio Campinho.

Revista Semestral de Direito Empresarial (RSDE), published under the academic responsibility of the Department of Commercial and Labor Law of Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), has the purpose of gathering articles and studies related to the full range of corporate law, presented by Brazilian and foreign law professors, researchers and practitioners. Among the areas covered are bankruptcy and reorganization, international trade, antitrust and intellectual property.

Offices
São Paulo
Rua Gomes de Carvalho, n° 1507, 2º andar, Vila Olímpia, CEP 04547-005,
São Paulo – SP
Tel: +55 (11) 4210-4010

Rio de Janeiro
Rua Joana Angélica, n° 228, Ipanema, CEP 22420-030, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
Tel: +55 (21) 2523-5960