Ongoing support for decisions
Continuous dialogue with shareholders and officers on day-to-day business questions.
Area 04 · Corporate Advisory
The legal decision happens before the lawyer is called.
Ongoing legal support, risk analysis and preventive work built into the company's day-to-day decision-making — at the point where an alternative still exists.
What is at stake
Most decisions with significant legal consequences are taken without a lawyer present. The contract is signed, the supplier relationship is ended, the ownership is changed, the property is transferred. Counsel is brought in afterward — once the decision has taken effect and the room to maneuver has narrowed to litigation.
Ongoing advisory work therefore serves a specific function: moving the analysis earlier. This is not about submitting the business to prior approval. It is about being available at the moment the decision takes shape, with enough knowledge of the business to answer without having to rebuild the context at every consultation.
In the end, the difference between advisory and contentious work rarely lies in the technical complexity of the question. It lies in when the question was asked.
Lines of work
Risk reading for transactions
Analysis of the legal exposure of specific transactions before they are carried out.
Opinions and memoranda
Formal technical analysis of contested questions, on grounds that can be verified.
Bringing practices into line
Review of contractual and corporate routines that generate recurring exposure.
Heading off litigation
Identifying relationships in decline and setting a course while settlement is still workable.
Tracking changes in the law
Reading the impact of court rulings and legislative change on the client's structure.
Publications in this area
Profits Distributed While Owing Federal Taxes: ADI 5,161 of the STF Defines When the Penalty Applies
In ADI 5,161, the STF limited the penalty for distributing profits while owing federal taxes. What to check, debt by debt, before approving a distribution.
Brazil's Supreme Court Bars a Second Vehicle Tax Charge on Fleet Already Taxed in Another State
Brazil's Supreme Court struck down a São Paulo rule that re-taxed fleet vehicles already taxed, in the same year, in their home state.
Directors' Liability Requires Prior Annulment of the Approval of Accounts at a Shareholders' Meeting
The Third Panel of the STJ reaffirmed, by a three-to-two majority, that a liability claim against a director depends on prior judicial annulment of the meeting that approved the accounts — but split over how far that rule reaches.
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