For businesses

Legal Consultancy
Administrative Litigation
Judicial Litigation

Jantalia Advogados offers services to companies and economic groups of all sizes. We strive to identify risk factors and alternatives as well as the most effective, efficient and legally appropriate solutions to protect our clients’ businesses and create value for them.

We have a recognized role in supporting foreign business groups, and in offering guidance to companies that wish to begin working in Brazil.

We offer appropriate and consistent legal services for all phases of a company’s business cycle while observing rigorous ethical and technical standards.

Legal Consultancy

We offer guidance and legal advice to companies for the secure and efficient performance of their businesses. Our work includes preparing legal opinions, reports, and authorization requests referring to public bodies—and even internal training.

The main consultancy services we offer are the following:

guidance for the correct application of legal and regulatory standards to products, services and operations;
preparation, analysis and review of business models;
preparation, analysis and review of organizations’ corporate governance, internal control and risk management structures;
preparation and monitoring of submissions for authorizations or licenses towards company establishment and operation, as well as operation of specific economic activities;
analysis, negotiation and renegotiation of acts and contracts;
preparation of risk matrices;
carrying out legal, accounting and financial audits (due diligence);
carrying out regulatory products’, services’, operations’ and operating institutions’ compliance audits (regulatory compliance);
support to the restructuring of assets and liabilities; and
representation at general assemblies, creditors committees and the like.

Administrative Litigation

We work in defense of companies’ interests in administrative lawsuits and procedures initiated by Brazil’s governmental supervisory and judicial bodies, such as:

the Central Bank of Brazil (Banco Central do Brasil/BCB);
the Securities and Exchange Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários/CVM);
the National Financial System Resources Council (Conselho de Recursos do Sistema Financeiro Nacional/CRSFN);
the Financial Activities Control Council (Conselho de Controle de Atividades Financeiras/Coaf);
the Ministry of Justice’s National Consumer Secretariat (Secretaria Nacional do Consumidor, do Ministério da Justiça/Senacon/MJ);
Secretariats and other state and municipal consumer protection bodies (Procon); and
the Ministry of Finance (Ministério da Fazenda).

The main services we offer are the following:

preparing and monitoring terms of commitment, administrative agreement and leniency agreement proposals;
monitoring special insolvency regimes such as intervention and liquidation of financial institutions;
monitoring administrative inquiries;
defense and monitoring of administrative sanctioning processes.

Judicial Litigation

We defend economic agents’ rights, interests and businesses facing all instances of Brazil’s Judiciary, focusing especially on complex and strategic legal disputes.

We represent companies at any Courts, bodies and procedural phases across Brazil. The strategic location of our offices in Brasília also gives Jantalia Advogados a great advantage in its litigation work: dedicated, intensive and agile representation of our clients in proceedings at Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (Superior Tribunal de Justiça/STJ) and Federal Supreme Court (Supremo Tribunal Federal/STF).

The main services we offer are the following:

defense in complex or strategic legal proceedings at 1^st and 2^nd instances and Superior Courts;
acting as amicus curiae in complex or strategic legal proceedings;
carrying out forensic audits to survey and analyze judicial contingent liabilities.

For businesses

Legal Consultancy

Administrative Litigation

Judicial Litigation

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