Offering advice on a wide range of labour, employment and social security matters, Rayes & Fagundes Advogados Associados is particularly distinguished for its strength in union negotiations and transnational employee hiring procedures in the IT sector. Its workload also features labour due diligence, collective agreements, strike actions, outsourcing, global mobility and variable pay schemes. Paula Corina Santone oversees the practice, and is noted for her expertise in the implementation of variable compensation policies and profit sharing schemes; her areas of expertise also cover occupational medicine and safety issues. Labour specialist Tadeu Henrique Machado Silva was promoted to the partnership in May 2023.
Testimonials
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‘Paula Corina Santone is a professional with high technical capacity for labour consultancy issues. She has strong experience in business law.’
‘The firm serves us efficiently and quickly, offering high quality services, with solid, up-to-date technical knowledge.’
‘Paula Corina Santone is highly receptive and always ready to assist and provide the best legal solutions.’
‘Lots of legal and technical knowledge. Training witnesses and agents with foundation and professionalism. Preparation of an impeccable opinion.’
‘I understand that the firm is always up to date with the most relevant topics, such as monitoring trials in the courts, with concrete opinions that provide us with credibility and security. The services are provided with excellence, the professionals are competent and meet all expectations of resolving cases for the entity, whether individual or collective.’
‘Paula Corina Santone is a partner with solid knowledge and performance in collective/individual corporate demands; Tadeu Henrique Machado Silva is a partner with excellent performance in consultancy and litigation.’
‘We identify the firm's strengths as the excellent technical aptitude of the professionals who make up the team, speed of service, ownership in resolving problems, in addition to education and availability of service.’
‘Tadeu Henrique Machado: Excellent technical knowledge, objectivity, combativeness and ability to solve problems. Paula Corina Santone: Excellent technical knowledge, objectivity and ability to solve problems.’
Key clients
- Laboratórios Servier do Brasil Ltda.
- Elevadores Atlas Schindler Ltda.
- Biomm S.A.
- Neumayer Tekfor Automotive Brasil Ltda.
- FLSmidth Ltda.
- General Electric do Brasil Ltda.
- American Express Brasil Assessoria Empresarial Ltda.
- Inversa Publicações Ltda.
- Agility Networks Tecnologia Ltda.
- Sherwin Williams do Brasil Indústria e Comércio Ltda.
- Hendrix Genetics Ltda.
- Zambon Laboratórios Farmacêuticos Ltda.
- Universal Automotive Systems S.A.
- Nokia Solutions and Networks do Brasil Telecomunicações Ltda.
- Masterfoods Brasil Alimentos Ltda.
- Cinemark Brasil Ltda.
- Sabis Serviços Educacionais Ltda.
- Sindicato da Indústria de Produtos Farmacêuticos no Estado de São Paulo
- Zup I. T. Soluções em Informática Ltda.
- Smurfit Kappa do Brasil Indústria de Embalagens S.A.
Work highlights
- Advising GE on a labour claim filed by Uelliton de Oliveira Passos, in which he alleges that the client is part of an economic group along with his former employer MABE.
- Representing Mercedes in a labour claim in which the counterparty is seeking compensation for various issues, such as time on call, intra-work breaks, hazardous work, damages for pain and suffering, and differences in severance pay and legal fees.
- Defending General Electric Do Brasil Ltda. in an enforcement lawsuit regarding payments of previously granted instalments in relation to an employment contract.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Paula Corina Santone