TozziniFreire Advogados

Firm overview:  TozziniFreire is a premier, full-service law firm that consistently provides legal services to domestic and international companies in a wide variety of business sectors.  Along these years, we have played a major role in many of the most significant transactions in the Brazilian market, becoming one of the largest and most prestigious firms in Latin America.

We see ourselves as one cohesive entity and act accordingly. With fully-owned offices in several cities in Brazil, we are able to guarantee our clients the same outstanding services and one-firm resource throughout the country.  This concept enables us to safeguard, every day, the firm’s culture, mission and values – which are the essence of who we are and what we do.

Our expertise has been consistently recognized by international and national specialized publications. TozziniFreire and its partners are regularly recognized and recommended as leaders in their field of practice.

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Main areas of practice
M&A, corporate and foreign investment: TozziniFreire is a leader in Brazil’s M&A market and is actively involved in structuring high-profile transactions and executing all types of deals. TozziniFreire assists foreign investors in structuring and implementing multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdictional business transactions, advising on investment alternatives, corporate structures and in greenfield and brownfield projects.

Competition and antitrust: The firm provides assistance regarding merger reviews and anticompetitive conduct cases, including cartels and leniency matters, abuse of dominance and vertical restraints, with experienced professionals in corporate investigations and negotiations with the authorities.

Corporate compliance and investigation: One of the first of its kind in Brazil, the practice has an eye on global trends and in-depth knowledge of corporate standards and practices for managing compliance and ethics issues. Its professionals are skilled in assessing corporate risks, conducting corporate investigations, developing and implementing specific programs based on the nature of the business and the risks identified.

ESG - environmental, social and governance: TozziniFreire's ESG Group has a multidisciplinary approach composed of professionals with experience and expertise in the areas of environmental law, human rights, corporate governance, climate change, carbon market, sustainable and impact investing, green and social finance, renewable energy, data privacy and compliance.

Agribusiness: With the experience to assist clients through each step of the production chain, including detailed knowledge of raw-material markets, agricultural equipment factories, banking, transportation, logistics, distribution companies, consumer markets and foreign trade, the diversified background of the firm’s agribusiness professionals allows TozziniFreire to present effective legal solutions tailored to the particular needs of its clients.

Infrastructure: TozziniFreire’s multidisciplinary Infrastructure group is organized to meet the needs of any participant in capital intensive projects. The firm routinely assist sponsors, multilateral agencies, operators, local and foreign investors, in energy, water, waste/sewage, mobility and logistics (ports, airports, railways, roads), biofuels and oil & gas projects. Their team members are experts in public bids, project development (including construction, operation, supply, etc.) and financing. The firm are also active in projects and equity M&A. Their lawyers are characterised by a proactive approach on structuring projects and creative solutions.Increasingly, their team has been assisting and discussing with clients the decarbonization targets and structures.

Real estate: The multidisciplinary practice provides advice on development and execution of large and structured real estate projects, as well as on several legal structures that make financial funding feasible for such projects. It has also been in the forefront of structuring agribusiness deals in Brazil.

Dispute resolution – litigation, arbitration and mediation: The team is uniquely positioned to represent clients throughout Brazil in litigation and arbitration matters. It is frequently involved in Brazil’s most significant cases and its members also serve as arbitrators and legal experts. TozziniFreire is also routinely engaged to assist clients in commercial mediation and other methods of alternative dispute resolution.

Tax: The firm provides high-quality assistance on tax matters and tax planning structures, including cross-border transactions involving transfer pricing and international tax treaty issues. It also handles complex cases tried at both the administrative and judicial levels.

Banking and finance: The practice has a long history of representing local and international financial institutions and major companies, offering extensive knowledge in structuring all types of complex finance and derivatives transactions. It has strong expertise in setting up foreign banks in Brazil and Brazilian banks abroad, and in-depth expertise advising financial institutions on banking prudential regulation and compliance issues.

Capital markets: The team has assisted major clients in the most significant transactions and offers extensive experience in handling the placement of securities in domestic and international markets, proved expertise in structuring public offerings of agribusiness, infrastructure and real estate securities and investment funds, and advising on the rules of the Brazilian Securities Commission.

International work: To help clients respond faster to the increasing business opportunities, the firm pioneered the creation of foreign desks in Latin America. Starting with the Asian initiative (comprising of the China, Korea and Japan desks) and fast developing towards other markets (Italian and German desks and Latin America), these unique knowledge centres are staffed with professionals familiar with the culture, legal and business practices of each region, and who are charged with keeping up-to-date with bilateral trade relations developments between Brazil and those countries.

Number of partners worldwide: 85
Number of other lawyers worldwide: 635