Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados

Founded in 2005, Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados is a Brazilian full-service law firm with offices in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Ribeirão Preto and Rio de Janeiro. With a talented team of 160 professionals, the firm offers a personalized service that goes beyond the traditional legal practice: it aligns its activities to clients’ goals, helping them to improve their results and business. Clients include large Brazilian and international companies of different industries and business areas such as telecommunications, investment funds, agribusiness, energy, banking, technology, construction, and food and beverage. Learn more about VPBG in our institutional video.

With our strategic alliance with Dentons, the world’s largest law firm with more than 5,600 lawyers operating from offices in more than 80 countries on six continents, we can serve clients anywhere in the world with the same level of efficiency and readiness that we practice in the local market.

Main areas of practice
Banking and finance: direct loans and financings, cross-border financings, syndicated loans, project finance, development banks’ and multilateral agencies’ financing.

Capital markets: public or private offerings of stocks, depositary receipts, commercial paper, debentures, bonds and other securities; structuring of investment funds; issuance of debentures and commercial papers and advisory on debt renegotiation.

Competition/antitrust: antitrust device, submission and opposition of concentration acts, antitrust administrative and judicial proceeding (eg cartels, distribution, relationships, abuse of dominant position) and investigations of commercial defense (eg dumping).

Compliance: the Compliance team is proficient and experienced in preventive measures, administrative procedures and leniency agreements related to all types of compliance, such as anti-corruption, antitrust, money laundering, fraud and labour.

Contracts: domestic and international operational and commercial contracts.

Corporate/M&A: mergers and acquisition transactions, investments and divestitures, restructurings and corporate reorganizations, partnerships and joint ventures and legal due diligences.

Employment and labour: labour litigation, labour advice, union negotiation, compensation and benefits’ planning.

Environmental: structuring and implementation of projects with environmental impacts, assessment of environmental compliance, administrative and judicial defense in proceedings and law suits involving environmental matters.

General corporate practice: incorporation, maintenance and liquidation of Brazilian companies, foreign investments, foreign exchange control and currency remittances.

Intellectual property: IP contracts, licensing and technology transfer, trademarks and patents, copyrights and software protection.

Internet and media: privacy data protection, cybersecurity, internet and e-commerce contracts and regulations, directed marketing and social media, gaming, IP disputes in cyberspace, domain name disputes, and media contracts and regulation.

Litigation and arbitration: civil, commercial, corporate and capital markets litigation, bankruptcies and reorganisations, arbitration and alternative mechanisms for dispute resolutions.

Real estate: purchase and sale transactions, title and ownership investigations, developments, O&M and lease agreements.

Regulatory and administrative: administrative litigation in administrative courts and regulatory agencies, in government contracting, such as public bids, concessions and public-private partnerships – PPPs, and in consulting work relating to public services, such as ports, airports, highways, railways, energy, oil and gas, mining, telecom, radio and TV.

Tax: tax planning, tax benefits programs, and administrative and judicial litigation assistance.

Telecommunications and technology: regulatory and transactional work in the technology and telecom industries with an excellent track record in the ITO and BPO industries, acting for customers and vendors.