Lefosse Advogados

Lefosse is an independent law firm that offers specialized advice and superior technical quality in all legal areas it covers. It has a singular combination of transactional and stand-alone practices offering tailor-made and simple solutions to complex problems. The team combine deep knowledge of clients’ businesses with outstanding insight and the highest level of quality, sophistication and rigor in seeking the best solutions, both in domestic and multijurisdictional transactions.

Main areas of practice
Corporate and M&A: a highly qualified team with expertise in mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations; private equity; business organization; corporate and commercial law; projects and venture capital.

Capital markets: debt and equity; derivatives and structured products; and securitization and structured finance: IPOs and rights offerings, convertible and exchangeable bonds, MTN programs and DIPs, high-yield offerings, structured products and derivatives.

Tax: the firm gives advice on all aspects of direct and indirect taxation, in particular on tax aspects in connection with M&A, joint ventures, capital market and cross-border transactions. Expertise includes value-added tax issues, international taxation, transfer pricing, tax planning and litigation.

Banking and finance: the team acts for arranging banks, lenders, credit enhancers and borrowers, in a wide range of industrial and financial sectors.

Infrastructure and greenfield projects: Lefosse advises financial institutions, government entities, multilateral agencies, suppliers, infrastructure builders and foreign investors, allowing clients to develop their projects in all infrastructure segments, such as generation, transmission and distribution of electric power.

Restructuring and insolvency: the team acts for creditors, insolvency practitioners, corporate debtors and directors/officers in relation to debt rescheduling; debt and equity restructuring; planning, initiation and conduct of judicial and extra-judicial restructuring and insolvency proceedings; banking litigation; incorporation of non-standardized credit rights investment funds (FIDC-NP).

Litigation and dispute resolution: Lefosse has expertise in alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, banking litigation, collection/enforcement, commercial litigation, due diligence, environmental/energy litigation, product liability litigation, regulatory investigations and restructuring and insolvency litigation.

Competition and regulation: the firm advises on cross-border and domestic mergers, investigations of anti-competitive practices, due diligences and compliance programs. Experienced in handling economic, competition and consumer protection disputes before judicial courts.

Labor: the team offers secure guidance on daily employment practices, including hiring and termination of high-level executives, transfer of employees, M&A transactions and drafting of agreements and incentive plans. Defends the client’s interests in judicial and administrative labor proceedings within the Brazilian jurisdiction in all levels of Labor Justice.

Environmental: Lefosse advises on a wide variety of environmental work, such as legal due diligence, environment litigation, environment advice, ethical investment, climate change and renewables.

Real estate: the firm advises on direct investment, corporate structures, real estate development, sale and lease back transactions, negotiations for the acquisition of large amounts of land. It also provides support in connection with investment funds, bond offerings, securitization evolving real estate, and due diligences in support of corporate and capital markets transactions that feature real estate assets.

Wealth planning: Lefosse has an asset reorganization plan, with multidisciplinary involvement to families, family offices, private clients of financial institutions and people changing residence from one country to another.

White-collar crime, anti-corruption, compliance and regulatory investigations: the multidisciplinary team offers dependable, proactive and sophisticated solutions for all white-collar crime, compliance and anti-corruption matters, helping Brazilian and international companies meeting all corporate governance needs. Expertise includes clients in a variety of sectors.

Oil and gas: the team has experience in M&A transactions in the O&G industry and acts in the preparation and negotiation of all contracts typically used by the industry. The regulatory expertise enables to assist companies in a variety of issues, including bid round processes, arbitrations and representation in administrative proceedings before the ANP.

Investment funds: the team represents local and international administrators, managers, financial institutions and investors in the structuring and formation of investment funds and other vehicles as well as regulatory matters pertaining to investment funds and asset management. Expertise includes public and private distributions of quotas, purchase and sales of assets and financing structures.