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Sobre o Leite, Tosto e Barros

About Leite, Tosto e Barros

Founded in 1991, Leite, Tosto e Barros is a full-service law firm with recognized expertise in litigation and business consulting.
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Offices

Leite, Tosto e Barros has strategic partnerships in Brazil’s main economic centers and abroad.

Responsabilidade Social

Social Responsibility

Throughout our history, we have been concerned not only with our clients and employees but also with society. Therefore, we are partners of charitable organizations that do exceptional work and deserve all of our attention and cooperation!

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Team

Leite, Tosto e Barros Advogados takes pride in having the most qualified professionals in various Areas of Practice. Get to know our team:

Administrative structure

Escritórios

The firm

Has a well-structed administrative department, which provides complete support for operations.
Estrutura

The structure

Includes the following areas: Administrative, Library, Controlling, Marketing, Human Resources, and Technology.
With over

employees, among legal and back office areas, committed to meeting our clients’ daily needs.

Areas of Practice

Administrative
Administrative practice in Direct and Indirect Administration of the three levels of government, General Accounting Office, Federal Prosecution Service, Parliamentary Inquiry Commission and Judicial Litigation in the following issues:

Bidding, Administrative Contracts and Concessions;

Misconduct in public office and Accusations of Damage to the Treasury;

Expropriation and establishment of Servitude Actions;

Land use and occupation: Operation license, Licenses and Interdiction.

Environmental
Consulting and preparation of legal opinions concerning environmental law;

Representation in administrative proceedings for licensing and administrative sanctions, investigative procedures brought by environmental defense agencies at the municipal, state and federal levels, as well as defense of our clients’ interests in judicial proceedings.

Arbitration and Conflict Resolution
Representation in legal actions for all instances of the judiciary, in cases related to arbitration issues (annulment actions of arbitration award, enforcement of judgments, enforcement of foreign arbitration awards, among others;

Working in arbitration proceedings with major arbitral institutions;

Legal assistance in Dispute Resolution Committees, mediation, conciliation and negotiation procedures, judicial and/or extrajudicial;

Developing Dispute System Design (DSD).

Banking
Acting in interventions, extrajudicial liquidation and temporary special administration regime of financial institutions;

Services in litigation, judicially and administratively, against BACEN and the CVM;

Proposal of lawsuits in Brazilian Courts regarding banking issues;

Structuring of national and international financial operations.

Civil
Drafting and analysis of contracts related to Civil Law (purchase and sale, exchange or barter, estimation, donation, rental of goods, loan, services, contracting, deposit, mandate, commission, agency and distribution, brokerage, transportation, insurance, constitution of rent, bail, pledge, mortgage and other contracts);

Consulting on the purchase, sale, and lease of real estate;

Development of Property;

Drafting of legal opinions related to Civil Law inquires (obligations, contracts, civil liability, property, possession, real rights, guarantees);

Proposal of lawsuits regarding civil matters;

Defense of interests in judicial measures under civil law.

Proposal of judicial measures under civil law, including loan recovery.

Judicial recoveries.

Commercial
Loan recovery: execution of all judicial and administrative measures aiming at loan recovery, such as proposal of execution actions, collection actions, monitoring actions, search and seizure, deposits, evictions, bankruptcy applications, credit entitlement and challenge of declared credits;

Negotiation with creditors and judicial recovery;

Preparation and analysis of commercial agreements.

Competition
Analysis of contracts and business practices in order to identify and solve competition issues;

Assistance in matters related to mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations;

Representation in administrative and judicial proceedings related to competition issues.

Consumer
Developing and reviewing consumer contracts;

Defense and proposal of lawsuits related to consumer damages;

Consulting on advertising;

Consuting on commercial practices.

Business and Finance
Assistance in the constitution and operation of companies in Brazil;

Drafting of corporate documents: the firm provides consulting services for annual and extraordinary general meetings, administration, fiscal and executive board meetings.

Responses to consultations and drafting of legal opinions related to corporate issues, such as majority shareholders, minority shareholders, dissenting shareholders, shareholders’ agreement, board of directors, equity sale, shareholders and directors’ liability, capital increase, balance sheet analysis, subscription bonus, group of companies, debentures, negotiation of publicly-held company shares and consulting for companies regulated by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM);

Proposal of administrative and judicial suits aiming to ensure the corporate rights and interests of our clients;

Project Finance;

Microfinance;

Cross-border Finance.

Mergers and Acquisitions
Drafting of all corporate actions aiming at incorporations and mergers or acquisitions (M&A) of companies;

Consulting on mergers and acquisitions in Brazil and abroad;

Conducting of due diligence to survey the assets and liabilities of companies, while effectively coordinating with other service providers, such as auditors and consultants;

Preparation and negotiation of all documents related to the operations;

Representation before regulatory agencies for economic control to obtain approval for economic concentration.

Real Estate
Legal advice services in the purchase, sale, and leasing of real estate;

Drafting and analysis of contracts in general, as well as contractual terminations;

Legal consulting on real estate purchase financing;

Evaluation and legal guidance in the utilization of the mortgage statute in conducting businesses;

Consulting service in real estate developments, land subdivisions, construction contracts, and residential and commercial leases agreements.

International
Processing procedures before the Brazilian Central Bank – BACEN, regarding the inflow and outflow of foreign capital in Brazil;

Recovery of Debt abroad;

Legal advice services on import and export of goods;

Legal guidance on technology transfers;

Accompanying clients in negotiations.

Capital Markets
Foreign investment consulting services in the country;

Legal consulting for financial institutions;

Structured operations, public and private issuances in the national and international capital markets;

Consulting services in public offers to acquire shares for the cancellation of the registration of a publicly-held company, increase of controlling shareholder’s participation: acquisition of control of a publicly-held company;

Administrative and judicial litigation in matters related to the capital market;

Operations related to stock exchange, futures markets, and over-the-counter markets;

Structuring, establishment and registration of investment funds such as: Credit Rights Investment Funds (FIDC) and Equity Investment Funds (FIP);

Securitization operations, including those involving real estate receivables;

Consulting services to financial institutions, companies, and investment funds regarding the compliance with specific laws and regulations.

Corporate Criminal Law
Consulting and litigation services to represent the interests of the client, regardless if defendant or plaintiff. Drafting of legal opinions, legal advice and technical studies, as well as representation in the administrative proceedings and criminal investigations up to the higher Courts. Focus on Economic Criminal Law, including:

Tax crimes;

Crimes against the financial system;

Money laundering crimes;

Economic crimes (unfair competition, capital markets, consumer law, among others);

Crimes related to bidding laws;

Bankruptcy crimes;

Press crimes;

Environmental crimes;

Crimes committed in extrajudicial liquidation and interventions.

Intellectual and Industrial Property
Legal consulting on matters involving software, trademarks, patents, and copyrights;

Drafting and analysis of electronic contracts;

Advice on Internet-related matters, especially regarding domain names;

Negotiations for technology transfer and trade secrets;

Representation in administrative (INPI) and judicial litigation disputes involving intellectual and industrial property;

Advice on franchise-related matters.

Public, Economic and Regulatory
Consulting, Drafting of legal opinions, modeling, and representation in administrative and judicial proceedings in the following subjetcs and sectors:

Public service concession;

Public-private partnership;

Electric Energy;

Telecommunications;

Sanitation;

Competition;

Consumer Law;

Banking;

Public civil actions and popular actions covering various topics.

Corporate
Consulting services in domestic and international structured finance transactions.

Consulting for financial institutions in the compliance area.

Telecommunications, Oil and Electric Power
Consulting on matters related to regulatory agencies, in the telecommunications (ANATEL), oil, natural gas, biofuels (ANP) and electric energy (ANEEL) areas;

Consulting services on qualification and participation in tenders for concessions;

Representation in administrative and judicial litigation concerning regulatory agencies, as well as their areas of expertise;

Drafting and reviewing contracts involving concessions, partnerships, and related rights in the area of telecommunications, oil, natural gas, biofuels and electric power;

Drafting and reviewing financing contracts in the fields of telecommunications, oil, natural gas, biofuels and electric power;

Litigation in the Brazilian Courts involving electric power issues.

Labor and Social Security
Litigation

Drafting of legal opinions and responses to inquiries related to labor, social security, and union legislation;

Consulting on procedures to be followed by companies to formalize employee hiring;

Assistance in union negotiations;

Drafting of defenses, consignment and payment lawsuits, injunctions, precautionary measures, declaratory actions, appeals before all levels of Labor Courts and Labor Public Prosecutor’s Office;

Attendance at hearings and oral arguments before courts;

Judicial approval of termination agreements, proposal of judicial investigation for the dismissal of employees with job stability.

Consulting

Consulting and preparation of general legal opinions, in the field of labor, social security and labor union;

Labor crisis management and advice;

Advice and preventive training, for labor legal department, as well as, the human resources team, and other employees;

Expertise in class actions and collective actions;

Representation/defense of client’s interests in investigations conducted by the Labor Public Prosecutor’s Office and inspections and/or penalties imposed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security;

Consulting services in union negotiations.

Tax Litigation

Drafting of requests for special regimes and tax incentives;

Due diligence of tax related matters in mergers, acquisitions, incorporations and other operations;

Guidance and assistance in tax audits, including for individuals;

Preparation and monitoring of defenses and appeals in administrative proceedings;

Drafting and monitoring of all appropriate judicial measures to reduce tax burdens;

Drafting of administrative and legal claims for the recovery of wrongly paid amounts;

Defense against lawsuits for undue tax claims;

Assistance in obtaining tax clearance certificates;

Risk analysis in judicial and administrative disputes and identification of contingencies;

Tax procedural updates seminars;

Injunctions, annulment actions of arbitration award, and credit recovery claims.

Tax Consulting
Drafting of tax planning and tax risk analysis, particularly in merger and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate restructuring operations;

Drafting of legal opinions and responses to tax inquiries;

Drafting of pleas and negotiations with the government to obtain tax incentives and special tax regimes;

Monitoring of due diligence procedures and non-procedural tax risk analysis;

Assistance in contract negotiations regarding tax matters;

Participation in legal-tax committees to discuss and propose changes to tax legislation;

Development and coordination of Tax Committees (“Tax Updates”) aiming to provide knowledge and debate on major tax changes for our clients.

“LEITE, TOSTO E BARROS IS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED LAW FIRMS IN BRAZIL

Prêmios e reconhecimentos

Awards and Recognition

Throughout our history, our determination to serve our clients with excellence has provide us with great relationships and recognition, which are the result of our dedication, concern, and care for each case directed to our specialized teams. Through the trust placed in our work, we have achieved excellent results with our clients.

Careers

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If you are interested in joining our team, whether in the Legal or Administrative field, please check out our current job openings or submit your resume through our platform. Your information will be stored in our Recruitment and Selection database, and we will reach out to you when a suitable opportunity arises.