Granadeiro Guimarães Advogados

Firm Overview:
Long established São Paulo-based boutique law firm, highly specialised and exclusively dedicated to the study, interpretation and application of law in labour relations. There have been lawyers in the Granadeiro Guimarães family for five consecutive generations since 1893. The firm occupies a position of great prestige in the Brazilian market, with commentators widely respecting its competent, efficient and ethical approach. The work developed is completely specialized and aligned with the business model and the organizational culture of the client.

Firm Details 

Managing Partners: Maurício Granadeiro Guimarães and Gustavo Granadeiro Guimarães

Partners:
Abner Dias Gitti
Adriana Pinton
Alexandre Marques de Medeiros
Ana Gabriela de Melo Primon
Anna Letícia Souza Zambaldi
Aparecida Tokumi Hashimoto
Carlos Evando Righetti
Daniel Rodrigues Campos
Fabiana Freua
Filipe Gustavo Potzmann Pereira
João Ricardo Galdieri Martino
Marcelo Martins
Nathache Naline Lemos
Ney Duarte Schiavo
Roberto Baronian
Rodrigo Chagas Soares
Vanessa Sehn Garcia
Wanderley Soares dos Reis
William Aleixo Bertalan

Number of partners: 21
Number of other lawyers: 9
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese

Main Areas of Practice: 

Labor & Employment: 100%

Representing corporate entities since Brazil’s labor code was first drafted, the team — approximately 30 attorneys — covers all labor related matters and draws on the extensive experience of both advisory work and litigation. Advisory services include consulting, auditing, compliance with employment contracts, and following up on government inspections and administrative proceedings. The litigation practice covers every state in Brazil and acts in labour courts or tribunals at all levels.

Labor Legal Consulting: 

• Full legal support for the analysis and presentation of hypotheses, risks and solutions for any labor and union issues related to Labor Law (individual, collective, union and procedural law).

Labor Compliance: 

• The firm provides legal support in the development and review of labor compliance programs, with a focus on the establishment and verification of compliance of the practices of the company’s labor relations with the legislation (laws and labor regulatory standards). Our work is focused on the development of: participation in working groups for the creation and implementation of compliance programs; legal advice on labor to compliance committees or to the CCO (Chief Compliance Officer); formulation and review of codes and corporate policies, internal rules and with views to corporate integrity; identification and mapping of risks and consulting to conduct internal investigations and application of disciplinary sanctions.

Labor Administrative Litigation: 

• The law office is predominant in the administrative litigation arena, in extrajudicial processes and procedures initiated by the Labor Prosecution Office (civil investigations, consent decrees, etc.) and by the Ministry of Labor (violation notices and debt assessments arising from labor inspections). Highly strategic and sensitive, these procedures are intended to investigate allegations of non-compliance with labor laws at a collective level, where the Labor Prosecution Office looks for elements to substantiate a possible Public-Interest Civil Action (class action), with a potential risk for financial losses (fines and indemnities) and damage to the company's image.

Labor Litigation & Risk Analysis: 

• Financial contingency in proceedings carried out with a high level of sensitivity and attention
• Provisions
• Establish a contingency amount for the proceedings, which is reviewed in the sentence and in each new judgment in higher instances

Labor Judicial Litigation:
In the realm of judicial litigations, the firm is distinguished for both individual claims involving cases arising from personal labor relations and collective proceedings involving disputes with the Labor Prosecution Office (MPT), Trade Unions representing professional groups and the Federal Government (federal labor monitoring).

Labor Negotiation and Arbitration: 

• Conflict mediation
• Extrajudicial transaction with homologation in court
• Arbitration

Labor and Union Relations: 

• Development and execution of union relations, through direct and permanent exchange with leading union representatives and also supporting its interface with companies’ leadership
• Study and monitoring of the labor market for the purpose of collective bargaining, reporting on the scenario of wage negotiations and their forecasts (projection of inflation rates, general balance of the quarter’s collective bargaining, etc.)
• Legal consulting for union collective act providing support in mergers and acquisitions processes, installation of new sites and plants, changes in preponderant activities with the consequent change of union classification, etc.
• Direct and leading role in union collective agreements
• Drafting and negotiation of the collective bargaining agreement, both general (with various social and economic clauses) and specific (time bank, special working hours and regimes, participation in profits and results, etc.)
• Accompanying the workers’ meetings held by unions
• Acting in collective negotiations of the economic category (collective bargaining agreements), representing the company and interacting with employers’ associations
• Register of collective labor instruments in the Sistema Mediador (Mediator System) of the Ministry of Labor
• Lectures and workshops on collective and union labor law issues

Clients:
The firm’s client portfolio consists of leading local and global companies from different economic sizes and fields: chemical, pharmaceutical, automotive, metallurgical, health & beauty products, food, gas production & distribution, telecommunications services, finance (banks and fintech – startups working with financial technology), research & development, health & hospital services, maritime transport & logistics, trade associations, among others.

Contacts:
General Contact: Gustavo Granadeiro Guimarães, Filipe Gustavo Potzmann Pereira e Roberto Baronian
Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Offices:
Praça Ramos de Azevedo, 209, 1° Andar – Centro
São Paulo – SP CEP 01037-010
+55 11 3120 7899
+55 11 97755 5000
Email: [email protected]