Mendes Advocacia e Consultoria

Partners: Lucca Darwich Mendes, Felipe Prata Mendes, João Paulo Mendes Neto, Arthur Laércio Homci da Costa Silva, Carlos Alberto Schenato Junior, Leonardo Costa Norat and Yule Luiz Tavares dos Santos

Managing Partner: Lucca Darwich Mendes

Number of other fee-earners: 30

Site: www.mendesadv.com

Contact: + 55 91 2121-5225

Firm Overview:

Mendes Advocacia & Consultoria are a business law firm, which believes in personalising the provision of legal services based on a high degree of specialisation and a focus on the clients and their business. The firm's main asset is its team, always attentive and available to adapt to the firm’s needs, in order to contribute to the resolution of specific legal issues or to explore segments and new markets demanded by clients.

The firm's work is guided and best known for the constant pursue for excellence, base on the need to be relevant to all those who trust in the project. Mendes Advocacia speak the 'same language' as its clients, so that, in addition to traditional deliverables, it can contribute to clients' strategic decision-making.

The firm relies on the need for specialisation also in the management of the firm, choosing a participatory model to integrate and retain talent. The firm assembles teams with diverse backgrounds and encourage entrepreneurship, attentive to new ideas, aiming at continuous improvement. The team recognises the importance of technology to adapt to an era in which information speed is paramount, holding the firm's relationship and transparent communication with clients as the main priority.

Areas of expertise

Contracts: Efficient solutions in all phases of commercial contracts, starting from an understanding of the client’s business and the particularities that impact its results.

The firm participates in the preparation, analysis, interpretation and negotiation of the most varied commercial ties, seeking to mitigate risks and ensure dynamic, secure and simplified relations.

Business Civil: The firm represents clients in court proceedings in the first and second levels, in the state and federal jurisdictions, as well as in the Superior Courts.

It elaborates opinions and consultations on the applicability and interpretation of Brazilian laws, offering support to organisations from the most diverse industries and sectors.

Corporate: The firm's expert advisory on corporate matters assists organisations in implementing strategies and in managing and mitigating risks involving individuals and legal entities.

The team accompaniesclients in scenarios of both instability and growth, working with the most varied corporate operations and corporate governance issues, always with legal certainty and business intelligence.

The firm specialists advise companies and their shareholders to build a compatible corporate structure for implementing their business plan.

Labour: The firm's lawyers have a multidisciplinary view of labour law, with services integrated with other areas of law, such as tax and contract law, offering innovative and personalised solutions to clients.

The firm helps its clients to remain competitive and mitigate business risks, in view of complex and constantly changing labour laws. The firm's advisory focuses on preventive conduct, structuring documents and internal and compliance policies, intermediating collective bargaining with the Unions and strategic planning to reduce labor liabilities.

The firm also operates in the litigation area, both administrative and judicial, elaborating defenses, appeals and manifestations in labour disputes, also related to union matters.

Tax: The tax practice has specialised professionals to meet the companies needs in view of the complex and sophisticated tax legislation and inspection system.

The team advises clients in making strategic decisions about tax litigations and the tax regime that best suits their business.

The firm also works to structure businesses with tax optimisation, so that clients have safe and legal tax planning, adding value and providing concrete results.

Public-Business: The firm experience involves following-up contracts with governments, bidding processes, issues related to public-private partnerships, regulatory issues, as well as services rendered in concession agreements and legal structuring of projects in the various types of industry. The team provides advisory related to the administrative misconduct law, fiscal responsibility law and related matters.

The firm is often working in administrative and judicial litigation, guiding and representing clients in litigation brought before all the government agencies.

Main Areas of Practice:

Mendes Advocacia address a variety of matters of their clients in different industries, such as consumer and retail, healthcare, international business, logistics and transportation, sports, education and engineering and construction. Some of the firm's key types of work are the collection and recovery of credits through extrajudicial negotiation and judicial enforcement of securities, the preparation, analysis, interpretation and negotiation of contractual ties with clients, suppliers and third parties, the creation of internal policies, bylaws and compliance programs, the tax planning, crisis management, corporate consulting and the labour advisory and consulting.