Huck, Otranto, Camargo Advogados

Firm Overview:

Huck Otranto Camargo was founded in 1993 by lawyers with long academic and professional experience and many years of joint services and professional relationship, among them the late Fabio Lilla, and the active Marcelo Huck, Raquel Otranto, Estela Camargo and Paulo Messina.

The founders and partners in these 30 years of work are identified by their ethics, enthusiasm and willingness to act in their clients’ interests.

The client is at the center of our practice. Our mission is to get to know each client as a whole in order to attend all their needs, anticipating problems and delivering efficient solutions through versatile and interdisciplinary approach.

Our organization operates with transparency and a sense of responsibility, enabling lawyers – most of whom have been here since their trainee days – to remain engaged with the firm for decades, and for clients to always be assisted by the same professionals, who have a historical knowledge of the activities of the companies and individuals advised by the firm. Our aim is to build and maintain long term relationships with clients.

We practice law in a multidisciplinary team, involving different areas and specializations for a holistic view of the client, which guarantees complete solutions to their diverse needs.

With a significant number of professors, doctors, master’s and post-graduates from the best universities in Brazil and abroad, our structure balances flexibility and competence ranging from the most complex work to the day-to-day demands of our clients. The goal is and always will be client satisfaction, with the provision of efficient and high quality legal services and personalized attention.

With three decades of existence, our firm remains true to its values and the trust placed in it by its clients.

Tailor-made teams with a versatile and interdisciplinary approach

Huck Otranto Camargorelies on the solid background and constant improvement of its partners as the source of the quality of its services.

The firm does not make size a starting or ending point. Its size seeks to balance flexibility and competence for complex work with the maintenance of quality and personalized service, based on a comprehensive understanding of the needs of each client and each case.

Our values go far beyond practicing law ethically, fairly and transparently. Our lawyers carry the culture of being close to their clients and committed to their needs, delivering technical solutions adapted to a variety of cases, from the most ordinary to the most complex, and above all creative.

Brazil: Transactional

Corporate & M&A:

Huck Otranto Camargo’s corporate practice advises on and implements different forms of legal business legal structuring in domestic and international operations. The team combines up-to-date, comprehensive and interdisciplinary approaches with knowledge of the markets and the respective legal opportunities.

The firm has long and intense experience in the full range of corporate structuring and restructuring, procurement, modeling and negotiation of contracts in a variety of economic sectors.

The corporate professionals coordinate with those in the tax, criminal, litigation, compliance, real estate and labor areas, so that clients’ issues and problems find comprehensive solutions that consider all aspects and legal implications of each case. To this end, they seek knowledge of clients’ business and its strategies and objectives, in order to provide individualized guidance and advice.

Real Estate:

Through a team with exclusive and multifaceted dedication, which always works in coordination with other areas of the firm, Huck Otranto Camargo offers specialized legal support for estate planning, always in an efficient and personalized manner, seeking to establish solid and long relationships with clients, based on trust and integration.

In real estate transactions, Huck Otranto Camargo also acts in a wide range of urban and rural operations: typical real estate transactions (such as purchase and sale, exchange, lease, donation, lease), more complex deals (such as built-to-suit leases, sale and leaseback, turn-key transactions, constitution of surface rights), structuring of atypical real estate developments, real estate-backed financial transactions, among others.

Huck Otranto Camargo’s pioneering spirit and broad experience in estate planning and real estate are recognized in the market and enable it possible to offer clients consistent, technical and wide-ranging legal advice.

Tax non-contentious:

Huck Otranto Camargo’s tax practice provides clients with customized, innovative and up-to-date tax solutions. Integration with other areas, as well as lasting and constant contact with customers, ensure efficiency, clarity and security to the strategic decision-making process.

The law firm, also highly regarded in this area, offers extensive advice to national and foreign individuals and legal entities, in the advisory and litigation, administrative and judicial fronts.

We offer legal advice in the assessment, rationalization and optimization of tax costs in corporate, real estate, succession, agribusiness, corporate restructuring, as well as structuring, incorporation and organization of new companies and businesses, in Brazil and abroad.

Huck Otranto Camargo’s tax team is made up of lawyers with solid academic and professional background, who work in an integrated manner with the other areas of the law firm.

Ranked Offices

Brazil - Head office

• São Paulo - SP

Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 1744, 6º andar, São Paulo - SP, São Paulo, Brazil, 01451-910

• Web:www.lhoc.com.br
• Tel:+55 11 3038 1000
• Fax:+55 11 3038 1100

Number of partners: 66

Firm Overview: 

Huck Otranto Camargo was founded in 1993 by lawyers with long academic and professional experience and many years of joint services and professional relationship, which include Fabio de Campos Lilla, Hermes Marcelo Huck, Raquel Maria Sarno Otranto Colangelo and Estela Lemos Monteiro Soares de Camargo.

Both the founders and members who joined the law firm in subsequent years are known for their dedication, willingness to work hard, thorough provision of services, and intellectual involvement in law, both in theory and practice.

The law firm has a significant number of professors, doctors, masters and postgraduates, with diplomas awarded by the best universities in Brazil and abroad.

Trainees are selected only from the most traditional and reputable schools, and we favor organic growth, allowing for greater cohesion and permanence of the law firm culture. Most members have joined Huck Otranto Camargo since their internships.

Huck Otranto Camargo relies on the solid training and constant improvement of its members as a source of the quality of its services.

Team advocacy is practiced as a team sport in which each one acts individually and in coordination with the team. This organization favors the formation of interdisciplinary teams, aligned to deliver comprehensive and effective results, in operations of all levels of complexity, involving different areas and specializations.

The firm does not make its size a point of departure or arrival. Its size is rather meant to balance flexibility and competence for complex work with quality and personalized service, based on a comprehensive understanding of the needs of each client and each case.

Main Areas of Practice:  

Litigation & Arbitration: 

■ Arbitration and Mediation

■ Public, Regulatory and Bidding Law

■ Contract Disputes

■ Litigation in Environmental Law

■ Litigation in Intellectual Property

■ Corporate Litigation

■ Reorganization and Bankruptcy

■ Tort Law and Consumer Relations

Corporate Law: 

■ Business Contracts

■ Competition Law

■ Corporate Law and Capital Markets

■ Loans and Financial Market

■ Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

■ Succession Planning/Private Clients (Individuals)

■ Private Equity and Venture Capital

■ Intellectual Property and Technology

■ Debt Restructuring

■ Regulated Sectors

Tax Law: 

■ Customs/Foreign Trade

■ Tax Advice

■ Administrative and Court Litigation

■ Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings in General/Full Due Diligence on Corporate Transactions

■ Succession Planning/Private Clients (Individual)

■ Domestic and International Tax Planning

■ Social Security Law

Real Estate Law: 

■ Environmental Law

Labour & Social Security Law: 

■ Social Security Law

■ Corporate Social Security and Social Contributions

Family & Successions Law  

Compliance: 

■ Consulting and Implementation Support

■ Internal Investigations

■ Due Diligence

■ Risk Assessment

Market Sectors 

■ Customs and Foreign Trade

■ Agribusiness

■ Food & Beverage

■ Education

■ Packaging

■ Real Estate Development

■ Energy

■ Engineering and Infrastructure

■ Entertainment and Media

■ Sports

■ Asset Management (Private Clients)

■ Electronics Industry

■ Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry

■ Internet and Technology

■ Medicine and Health

■ Payment Methods and Fintechs

■ Mining

■ Private Equity and Venture Capital

■ Insurances

■ Startups

■ Telecommunications

■ Third Sector

■ Transport and Logistics

■ Retail and Distribution