Dantas, Lee, Brock & Camargo Advogados is a multidisciplinary law firm, devoted to respond its clients' needs in all of their legal issues (a full service firm). Our experience is not limited to the law but also to our clients' realities and to the markets in which they act. The firm has now more than 60 lawyers and more than 120 people in its staff. The firm is a member of AITC (Association of International Tax Consultant) and The Americas Group - an association of Law Firms in the Americas.
Our main practice areas are:
Aviation Law
Orienting to companies and investors in the making and negotiation of contracts relative to the property and exploration of aircraft and related services (facilities, functioning and operation) and contracts with financial institutions and leasing companies for the purchase or sale of aircraft, motors or parts.
Structuring of guarantees and other issues relative to Aviation Law, national and international.
Counseling before regulating organisms and public officials.
Banking & Finance
Legal counseling in all matters relative to Banking & Finance. Focus in corporative finance and securities markets. Asset Management legal counseling. Representation and counseling of investors in public companies and funds.
Initial Public Offers, Private Structures for Equity and Debt, in local and international markets.
Legal Support to structure complex financial projects such as securitization and financing, refinancing, creation and structure of liens, finding specific solutions for companies with different characteristics and investors with particular demands.
Counseling for interests in investment funds, portfolios, trusts and asset management. Formation of investment funds and definitions on third parties' asset management.
Development of investment funds with special characteristics, such as Investment Funds in Credit Rights, Funds of Consigned Credit and Participation Funds.
Counseling related to contracts and operations with derivatives, with expertise in ISDA standard contracts and credit derivatives.
Legal Support for financial institutions, public companies and other agents in Banking & Finance, including licenses, authorizations and defense in administrative suits before governmental agencies proceedings.
Civil and Commercial Litigation
Defense of companies or individuals in the Brazilian Courts or Arbitration Panels, with the usage of dynamic and creative techniques, multi-disciplinary focus, always with the objective of reaching the proposed objectives in the shortest period of time.
Preventive actions, to avoid judicial suits, prioritizing the composition throughout agreements and transactions.
Administrative Suits before local, state and federal organisms and agencies.
Lawsuits in several areas of legal practice, such as Civil Law, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Bank and Finance Law, Competition Law, Consumer Law and other.
Follow up and development of the work in a totally computerized manner, with action in all of the National Territory and a strong structure to manage large portfolios.
Carrying out legal opinions relatively to the Brazilian procedural system as regards to the practice of law in the Brazilian courts and arbitration panels, being them initiated in Brazil or abroad.
Commercial Law
Support, negotiation, and drafting of industry (including O&M), wholesale, retail and distribution contracts. Service Agreements and SLA.
Counseling in issues relative to Intellectual Property, Consumer Rights, transfer of technology, usage of trademarks and exploration of patents.
Counseling in processes of companies' recovery, including orientation to creditors and debtors in the financial and economic restructuring.
Orientation in commercial agreements and contracts in general, including real estate.
Consumer Relations
Specialized area in mass litigation, with follow up and development of the work, in a totally computerized manner, acting all over Brazil and relying on an ample structure to manage large portfolios.
Making of reports with Management Overview, procedural and statistical inputs, liabilities control, diagnose and identification of the source of the problems in order to collect intelligence data from the portfolio.
Preventive action, with the purpose of reducing contingencies, giving priority to the reduction of the portfolio through agreements and transactions.
Planning, making and supervision of the legal aspects of recalls, with nation wide extent, before agencies of consumer's protection and defense.
Legal Support in negotiations and in the making of contracts of goods and services designated for consumption, with the purpose of complying these to the Brazilian Consumers' Law.
Orientation and making of legal opinions in issues relative to the Organisms of Consumers' Protection, Consumers' Office, Public Attorney Office, Special Civil Courts and Common Courts.
Analysis, making and execution of Terms of Adjustment of Conduct with the competent authorities.
Legal Support to advertising campaigns, marketing strategies and aspects of the consumers' rights in the Internet.
Litigation relatively to complex legal matters, such as public civil suits and collective suits.
Litigation in all administrative spheres, involving issues related to the application of penalties by Agencies of Consumers' Protection.
Development of companies' preventive policies and strategies.
Corporate Law
Legal Representation of national and international companies and individuals into their equity in Brazil or abroad.
Mergers and Acquisitions. Securitization. Asset transfers.
Support to international groups in the project and making of investments in Brazil, preparation of alliance agreements and joint ventures.
Start up of companies, organization, reorganization, board representation, fillings and proper documentation.
Orientation and defense of shareholders' rights and opinions related to the compliance and changes on the regulations that govern companies' legal life.
Credit Collection
Specialized area in full counseling to clients who need to collect their credits in an efficient and expeditious manner.
Extra judicial recovery of companies' credits, with the usage of modern strategies of negotiation and collection techniques.
Legal Support in contracts, titles of credit, guarantees and financial operations, risk analysis and due diligence for the assessment of documents.
Consulting and support in the formalization of businesses, with orientation as to the best manner of guaranteeing their compliance to all laws and regulations.
Analysis of debtors' situation (legal, assets and economic), throughout researches performed all over the Country.
Legal opinions involving specific legislations, contracts, guarantees, titles of credit and proceedings to recover and/or to protect these credits.
Law Suits to defend creditors in all levels of administrative and legal jurisdictions, in all of the National Territory, using modern and dynamic strategies, developed in conjunction with the creditor to achieve the recovery of the credit in the most expeditious and less costly manner.
Criminal Corporate Law
Counseling and defense of clients in the ascertainment of crimes relative to the economic activity, in the areas of anti-trust, taxation, labor, environment, consumer and intellectual property law.
Orientation as to instruments available to clients who become victims of crimes committed by competitors or by third parties.
Culture, Publicity, Advertising and Third Sector
Legal Support in the development of social investment projects, individually or in partnership with public or private organizations, national or international.
Constitution of civil associations and private foundations, establishment of partnerships, orientation and planning for the better enjoyment of legal benefits, development of projects, donations operations, making of contracts and partnerships bylaws, real estate regularization, certificates and ownership titles, preparation of defenses and administrative remedies, mainly before the National Council of Social Security and making of preventive legal audits.
Counseling in all claims received by the companies who felt the need of including, in their general planning, projects of collective interest, therefore conferring legal security to social responsibility.
Orientation in investments of cultural projects, due to the complexities of the production of these, through a specialized legal counsel relative to incentives.
Formal constitution of cultural projects, orientation for the approval before the Ministry of Culture, adequacy to the initiatives to obtain fiscal incentives of the Roane Law, making of contracts between the involved parties and in the negotiation of sponsorships and donations.
Action in administrative proceedings before the National Council of Advertising Auto Regulation (CONAR) which have, as their purpose, the observation of ethical and legal principles in advertising.
Analysis of abusive situations of economic power and unfair market competition. Evaluation of eventual irregularities with the proposal of legal and administrative injunctions of repression and prevention.
Examination of possible violations and development of legal and extra-legal strategies in order to impose the execution of rights or of defense in litigations involving Intellectual Property, Industrial Rights and Copyright.
Making of promotions' rules.
Accompaniment of registration of promotions in general.
Customs Law, Imports and Exports
Counseling and consulting in foreign commerce - imports and exports - including special regimes (Special Customs Warehouse, Drawback, RECOF, and other..).
Administrative Suits before the Ministries of Agriculture, Health and the Central Bank of Brazil. Representation and promotion of defenses in special procedures and administrative proceedings before the Internal Revenue Service, including in the judicial sphere, when necessary.
Making and analysis of foreign commerce contracts, transportation and financing. Legal opinions relative to customs laws and regulations.
Economic and Competition Law
Making of legal opinions, responses to consultations and creation of strategies for companies, with evaluation of the legal risks, pointing out opportunities to execute businesses.
Notification of market domination acts - antitrust fillings.
Support to companies management and shareholders relatively to large projects and for the structuring of the operations.
Power of attorney of clients for preliminary surveys and administrative proceedings of any nature before the Administrative Council of Economic Defense (Brazil's anti-trust and competition agency) and the Special Secretariat of Economic Accompaniment.
Defense and power of attorney of Brazilian and foreign companies involved in anti-dumping investigations, in Brazil and abroad.
Energy
Orienting as to the regulatory aspects - commercial, taxation, environmental and corporate of the sector's clients, together with the Firm's other specialized areas.
Counseling in regulatory issues as well as in the decision making processes.
Participation in the writing, negotiation and risk analysis of contracts relative to the area's activities, as public utility concession contracts, construction, assembly, supply of equipments, purchase and sale of electric energy (PPA), gas supply (GSA), energy conversion (ECC), swap and options of energy purchase and sale, among other.
Counseling in financing operations of projects for the implantation of hydro-electric and thermo-electric power plants.
Studies of the Brazilian legal rules relative to projects referent to the carbon market.
Counseling in projects of exports of electric energy.
Counseling in the structuring of financing operations, including the public emission of debentures and Certificados a Termo de Energia Elétrica (CTEE), creation of Investment Funds in Credits Rights (FIDC), founded in credits from energy concessionaires, among other structure finance operations.
Environmental Law
Performance of environment audits, creation of action plans having in view the legal rules relative to the usage of natural resources.
Legal Support relative to the environmental legislation and counseling in obtaining licenses and management of requests before environmental protection agencies and government organisms.
Legal Support in the writing and execution of Terms of Adjustment of Conduct and preparation of administrative defenses.
Counseling for the establishment of environmental management systems and in certification processes by Rule NOR ISO 14001.
Analysis of contractual and extra-contractual responsibilities resulting from the transportation of hazardous cargoes and relative to the final destination of residues, basic sanitation issues as well as in the making of projects of the carbon market and conservation and supportable usage of bio-diversity.
Making of legal opinions involving legislation specific to the matter.
Family and Succession Law
Specialized counseling in management of family assets and corporations, with focus in succession and tax planning.
Counseling for the preservation of individual and family interests, analysis of assets for the purposes of distribution of assets in the dissolution of marital bonds. Making of wills and succession, carry through non-marital agreements for common living, pre-nuptial agreements and other preventive adjustments.
Family Litigation, judicial and extra-judicial divorces, actions of alimony relative to minors or incapable persons, ADR for family problems and expatriate relationships with Brazilian individuals.
Foreign Investment and International Commerce
Legal Support for international contracts with interests in local companies, loans and investment operations, including the acquisition of assets inside and outside of Brazil.
Legal Support for commercial operations of purchase and sale, transfer of technology and insurance.
Support in processes and interests which involve Brazilian and foreign companies, acting together with large international law firms.
Legal opinions about specific legislations and their applicability.
Information Technology and E-Commerce
Counseling in the making of contracts of software licensing, of escrow, of code source, or maintenance and of development of applications, of technology transfer and of operation and administration of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) platform.
Consulting in projects relative to the rights of intellectual property and related areas, such as negotiation of copyrights, licensing of patents and trademarks and authorizations for the usage of trademarks and commercial names.
Counseling in issues relative to the usage of digital signatures, supply of content, links and hosting.
New business structuring, products and services to companies in the area of technology and players in the internet market.
Intellectual Property
Counseling in all procedures of registration and protection of trademark, patents, software, copyrights, name of dominion, industrial design and geographical indication, in Brazil and abroad.
Making, analysis, negotiation and registration of contracts involving licenses and granting of rights of intellectual property.
Contracts involving licensing of usage of image, sound and name, as well as licenses for the usage of contents.
Analysis of unfair competition practices, administrative and judicial support.
Competitive intelligence; making of judicial and extra-judicial strategies with the purpose of defending intellectual property rights.
Complete assistance and accompaniment of administrative injunctions and civil or criminal injunctions against violations to intellectual property, such as forgeries, falsifications, piracy and plagiarism.
Legal audit specialized in the area of Intellectual Property.
Korean Desk
Legal Support and consulting in the installation, development and business relationships of Korean companies in Brazil, of Brazilian companies in Korea, directly and/or through partnerships with Korean Law Firms.
Labor and Social Security Law
Counseling involving due diligence, labor audit to adjust procedures, review and implementation of alternative modes of retention, flexible modes of compensation, routine counseling with fast and simple responses and solutions for the issues of conflicts diagnosed in the reports, made by the labor litigation team.
Labor litigation with action driven to control, manage and reduce liabilities, effective management of suits with clear, exact and on-line information. An area specialized in mass litigation with accurate registers, totally computerized follow up and another areas specialized in complex labor litigation, with differentiated treatment for strategic suits.
Experience in union litigation in the legal and extra legal fields, crisis administration, strikes, collective negotiations, round tables, mediation, arbitration, enforcement actions, and declaratory suits of legal invalidity of collective clause.
Private Retirement Plans and Pension Funds
Orientation to prepare, develop or retain corporate welfare plans, draft of closed funds bylaws, follow up of processes of withdrawal or inclusion of sponsors, studies of the legal structures of the opening of plans offered by the market, consulting of specific themes of the sector and legal orientation for the trustees' making of decisions.
Support to set up individual and corporate plans, making of adhesion and new products contracts and accompaniment of processes before the government agencies.
Advisory in purchase and sales operations of welfare funds portfolios, acting together with the Corporate Legal area.
Representation of clients in administrative suits, including intervention and liquidation of entities.
Pro Bono
Social responsibility is one of our beliefs and one of the commitments we insist in practicing before our associates, partners and, mainly, before the Community.
We understand that our role within the Community is to put ourselves at the disposal of institutions to legally support them in the development of their social activities.
Real Estate
Draft of legal instruments which involve the purchase, sale, commitment of purchase or sale, swap, payment in kind, constitution of guarantees, development, construction, contracting, rent, lease and partnerships such as real estate transfer, be them resulting from corporate acts or not.
Counseling in the analysis and regularization of real estate documentation and support for the formation and structuring of ventures of the most diverse nature, such as real estate incorporation, real estate development, installments, shopping centers, hotels, flats services, jointly owned assets (residential, commercial, industrial, hospitals), clubs and other.
Action in the formation of real estate funds, emission of debentures and securitization processes, acquisition of rural real estate by foreigners and legal audits of company's real estate assets.
Tax Law
Focus on the administrative and judicial litigation, with the purpose of removing the demands for irregularly charged taxes, in the local, state and federal spheres.
Carrying through applications, consults and legal opinions in order to solve doubts about the construction of the federal, state and local legislation.
Specialized tax consulting in the analysis of fiscal documents for the identification of the company's eventual irregularities before investigation agents.
Tax planning in the implantation of new businesses and restructurings of these.
Measurement of tax contingencies in incorporation, joint ventures and splits (due diligence).
Supply of informative letters about the legislation and the identification of new opportunities in the taxation sphere.
Organization of seminars about specific taxation matters.
Telecommunications
Counseling to companies relative to the area's legal and regulatory rules, making of legal opinions and participation and orienting referent to public consultations organized by the Government and regulatory agencies.
Draft of contracts for infrastructure sharing, interconnection and Internet operations.
Making of projects which involve foreign investment, taking into consideration the applicable legal rules, with the necessary guidelines for media companies, especially in the radio and television segments.
Transportation
Legal Support to international vessel owners, cargo and tourism, presenting and planning legal structures alternatives to their agents, subsidiaries and branches.
Legal support and consulting for shipping and import / export companies.
Defense of companies' interests before the courts, tribunals and agencies in all types of proceedings which involve cargo or passengers.
Legal consulting in the collection of maritime credits, including the adoption of all necessary legal measures.
Making of contractual instruments involving the commercial or civil usage of vessels, such as agency contracts, freight contracts, financing with mortgage guarantee, time charters, joint ventures and other.
Action, before the Ministry of Transportation, Merchant Navy Department, Port Authorities, National Agency of Sanitary Inspection, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Police and Maritime Court to obtain the necessary authorizations.
Customs counseling, counting with specialized forwarding agents.
Counseling for road, railroad, water and metropolitan transportation, both in the administrative aspect and in the judicial one and in all proceedings involving cargoes and/or passengers, in the Brazilian Territory.
Legal Support for Transportation in all fields of law related to the Logistics Business.