Meet our areas of expertise

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados expertise in the preparation, reviews and legal opinions in contracts (in general).
Buying and selling;
Barter;
Donation;
Rental;
Provision of services;
Endeavor;
Loan for use;
Mutual;
Deposit;
Mandate;
Business management;
Agrarian;
Lease;
Partnerships;
Insurance;
Security deposit;
Transport;
Supply, distribution and commercial representation;
Commission and brokerage;
Technology transfer and know-how license;
Franchising;
Factoring, leasing, built to suit, etc.

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados has experience in public tenders at the federal, state and municipal levels (administrative procedures of judicial qualification and classification, etc.).

Expropriations, concessions, permissions, and privatizations;

Administrative proceedings before the Administrative Council for Economic Defense – CADE.

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados has consolidated technical qualification to provide preventive consulting in the various segments of Civil Law, as well as Civil and Commercial Procedure.

Contractual terminations, consignment actions, civil liability, indemnification for material, moral and/or aesthetic damages, possessory in general, search and seizure, execution, collection of claims, repetition of indemnity (repayment), etc.

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados is able to advise clients in relation to contracts in general involving Commercial Law.
Commercial franchises (franchising);
Commercial development (factoring);
Credit titles;
Commercial intermediations and representations;
Analysis of market and financial contracts.

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados has expertise to assist clients with the demands relevant to Family Law, such as:
 
• Mediation and Conciliation in Family Law;
• Recognition and Dissolution of Consensual Marriage;
• Judicial Separation;
• Judicial and Extrajudicial Divorce;
• Alimony suit and enforcement;
• Alimony Revisional and Exoneration;
• Regulation and/or Modification of Custody and Visits;
• Precautionary Protection of Separation of Bodies;
• Lien of Assets;
• Delivery of Goods for Personal Use;
• Paternity Investigation;
• Permits and concessions;
• Judicial and extrajudicial inventory, liens, sharing and oversharing, testamentary succession;
• Marriage Agreement, Coexistence Agreement and Dating Contract, among others.

The concept of family has changed in Brazil and, recently, Law operators have started to work with the recognition of homoaffective civil union, and, consequently, several rights have been guaranteed. However, many still have their rights denied. Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados has qualified professionals to assist clients with the demands relevant to the subject matter, such as:

Civil Registry;
Change of name and sex with the Civil Registry by sexual identity;
Birth record of children of same-sex couples.
 
Civil Law:
Indemnification due to discrimination by gender identity, sexual orientation and sexual expression;
Compensation for aggression against LGBT rights in a social, family or work environment.
 
Family Law and Law of Probate and Succession:
Mediation and Conciliation in Family Law;
Recognition of homoaffective consensual marriage for same-sex couples;
Civil partnership agreement for homosexual, trans-sexual, and transgender couples;
Homoaffective marriage: Divorce, Separation; Custody of Children, Child Support for Same-Sex Couples;
Health plans and social security rights;
Adoption by homosexual couples;
Separation and dissolution of civil partnership;
Succession issues for the death of the spouse.

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados is recognized in the national market for having a specialized team to deal with consumer relations, assisting and defending its clients in the most diverse demands involving Consumer Law.
 
• Relations between consumer and company, in the advisory and litigation areas, in the administrative and judicial spheres;
• Defenses of infraction notice at municipal, state and federal levels;
• Mediation between consumer and company aiming at the reduction of procedural liabilities;
• Management of process portfolio with periodic presentation of customized reports to the needs of clients, with varied indicators (volumetry, root cause, KPIs defined by companies, etc..).
 

With extensive experience in Real Estate Law, Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados assists clients in a variety of situations in this area, such as:

Development of real estate undertakings, from the acquisition of areas, real estate developments, real estate fund;
Analysis of real estate contracts and preventive consulting;
Regularization of real estate in general;
Rectification of area and usucapio in the administrative sphere;
Litigation in general: usucapio; eviction; renewal; revisional; repossession, etc..

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados relies on a multidisciplinary team with experience in the most diverse areas of Business Law.
Constitution and dissolution of companies;

Mergers, divestitures, transformations, and acquisitions;
Legal audit;
Joint ventures;
Financial and capital markets, securitizations, corporate reorganizations, securities offering;
Shareholders' agreement, opening of capital, issuance of debentures, securities, both nationally and internationally;
Succession planning.

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados has a strategic team to provide the most appropriate work according to the demand of each client’s labor relations.

Relations between employer and employee in the advisory and litigation areas, individually and collectively, including collective bargaining and union claims;

Labor audits;

Development of internal remuneration and benefits policies;

Preparation of legal opinions and statements;

Administrative and judicial defenses, etc.

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados has a specialized team to provide tax advice, as well as to analyze each client’s situation according to the possibilities of our legal and jurisprudential system.

Administrative and judicial litigation;
Tax consultancy;
Tax planning for proper framing of operations;
Utilization and survey of tax credits;
Tax liability management;
Defenses of infractions at the federal, state, and municipal levels.

It is understood that judicial proceedings are not the most beneficial method of resolving conflicts of interest, not only for the significant duration of time, but also for the costs involved and indirect reflections arising thereof.
 
Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados has a team specialized in Conflict Resolution Methods and has successfully participated in various projects and action plans to reduce the procedural liabilities of its clients. The legal technical knowledge, the study of the client's operational bases, the technological control system, conciliatory contact, and constant academic updating of professionals have provided the firm's clients with a considerable reduction in the portfolio of active processes, with significant financial gain in their provisioning.
 
Through mediation techniques, considering legislation, the jurisprudence of the country and, above all, the common sense, Alvim Coelho guides and advises the parties involved in defining the most appropriate strategy for the composition of their conflicts, reducing the costs involved and avoiding the judicial proceeding. The scope of mediation is processed in all areas of law and has as its greatest challenge the solution of difficult issues of difficult negotiation, especially of a contractual, family or business nature.

Alvim Coelho assists its clients in identifying business risks in the most diverse areas of business activity, such as: human resources, financial, commercial, marketing, operations, purchasing, logistics, legal (contractual, real estate, tax, and labor), judicial and administrative proceedings, information technology, aiming at working in a preventive way and remedying contingent liabilities.
 
The office's work includes conducting audits, internal investigations, monitoring of strategic judicial and administrative proceedings, interviews with administrators, employees, third parties, training, review of internal flows and controls, implementation and review of internal policies, compliance programs, and best corporate governance practices.

Alvim Coelho Sociedade de Advogados has a specialized team to assist clients in the advisory and litigation demands of the Corporate Social Security Law area, such as:
 
•          Defenses in regressive actions;
•          Interface with Labor Department in compensation claims;
•          Working in the administrative sphere (INSS);
•          Support to the INSS, via judicial assistance, in compensation claims;
•          Preparation of legal opinions and statements.