Amaral e Nicolau Advogados

Founded in 1997, Amaral e Nicolau Advogados enjoys a high reputation as one of the leading real estate law firms in São Paulo. The firm’s vast experience means it regularly handles many of the largest, most complex and demanding real estate transactions in Brazil. Amaral e Nicolau also focuses on sensitive real estate litigation matters, and in counseling boards of directors and senior management in the most sensitive situations.

Amaral e Nicolau approaches its clients’ legal issues focusing on the larger framework of each client’s strategic, business and financial goals. The firm focuses on matters that require the attention, extensive experience, expertise and reputation of its partners. Matters undertaken by the firm are at all times afforded the direct personal attention of a partner who will have the expertise and sophistication with respect to the issues in question.

Amaral e Nicolau's managing partners, José Vicente Amaral Filho and Julio Nicolau Filho, have been leading legal departments within the most traditional real estate developers of Brazil. It has ensured the firm has become one of the most prestigious law firms dealing with real estate practice in São Paulo. This enables the firm to attract the most outstanding and motivated attorneys and law school graduates in São Paulo state.

Amaral e Nicolau consistently ranks near the top of legal real estate advisors by transaction dollar volume, even though it is significantly smaller than all of its major competitors. Over the past several years, the firm has been the legal advisor on some of the largest real estate transactions in São Paulo state.

Representation of diverse client base, both institutional and entrepreneurial, in project, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, operations, development planning, and land use involving all property types, from retail, office, residential (multi-family and condominiums), industrial, and the full range of hospitality projects, located across Brazil.