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Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados Offices

Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados
AVENIDA RIO BRANCO, 110
39º E 40º ANDARES
20040-001 RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ
Brazil
Visit website 55 21 3861 5800

Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados > The Legal 500 Rankings

Brazil > Capital markets Tier 3

Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados boasts an impressive track record in debt and equity capital markets matters. The firm offers a multifaceted range of services encompassing transactional, regulatory, and administrative litigation advice, where Jaques Wurman is especially strong. The firm’s regulatory prowess is bolstered by the experience of lead partners Francisco da Costa e Silva, a former chairman of Brazil’s Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), and Maria Isabel do Prado Bocater, a former CVM commissioner. Other key individuals include Matheus Corredato Rossi and Flávio Martins Rodrigues, a contact for funds-related advice.

Practice head(s):

Maria Isabel Bocater; Francisco Costa e Silva; Matheus Corredato Rossi

Testimonials

‘Diverse team, encompassing several areas. They have availability and good solutions.’

‘Matheus Corredato Rossi is always available, calmly and safely presenting excellent solutions.’

Key clients

Banco Itaú BBA

Banco Fator

Vinci Partners

XP Investimentos

Bombril

Skysites Americas

Reichhold do Brasil

Woori Bank Brasil

3R Petroleum

Petro Rio S

Grupo Big Brasil

Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (Grupo Pão de Açúcar)

Índigo DTVM

I9 Capital Gestão de Recursos

M Square Investimentos

LAEP Investments

Banco Máxima

A5 Gestão de Investimentos

Banco Paulista

Planner Corretora de Valores

Reit Securitizadora de Recebíveis Imobiliários

Fundação Previdenciária dos Servidores do Instituto de Resseguros do Brasil (IRB) – Previrb

Infinity Asset Management

Fundação Petrobras de Seguridade Social

Fundação Sabesp de Seguridade Social (Sabesprev)

Fundação de Previdência Complementar do Estado de São Paulo (Prevcom)

Singulare (Former Socopa Sociedade e Corretora Paulista)

AQ3 Asset Management

Nova Futura Corretora

Fundo Banespa de Seguridade Social (Banesprev)

DESENVOLVE SP

BB Previdência Fundo de Pensão

Work highlights

  • Represented BTG Pactual Serviços Financeiros in an administrative proceeding before the Brazilian SEC (CVM), concerning the interpretation of relevant accounting regulations, which could have consequences on investors’ income taxation.
  • Advised Embraer on its investment into the drone company XMobots in a transaction made through an investment fund whose sole shareholder is Embraer.
  • Advising Infinity Asset on investment fund regulations and day-to-day matters, and on the public issuance of quotas for four funds with a total value of R$115m.

Brazil > Corporate and M&A: Mid-market Tier 5

Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados fields a team of specialist corporate law practitioners who are the trusted partners of a variety of longstanding and new clients operating in a range of sectors – notably energy, financial services, mining and technology. The group is engaged by mid-market companies and private equity funds in relation to joint venture agreements, incorporations and non-transactional corporate matters. On the advisory front, the team is particularly active representing companies and shareholders in administrative proceedings and regulatory matters before the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM). Francisco da Costa e Silva draws on his previous experience at a development bank and as CVM’s Commissioner and Chairman to advise on complex M&A transactions. He co-leads the team with João Laudo De Camargo. Other key individuals include Maria Isabel do Prado Bocater and Bernardo Costa e Silva, the latter of whom is rated for his ‘strategic vision and deep knowledge of the law’.

Practice head(s):

Francisco da Costa e Silva; João Laudo De Camargo

Testimonials

‘The corporate team is extremely capable and diligent.’

‘Special attention to Bernardo Costa e Silva. One of the most competent and committed partners in the corporate area.’

‘Firm with great expertise in the field in which they work and with a lot of focus on business strategy. Commitment, dedication and care with the treatment under analysis distinguish the firm’s lawyers, notably Bernardo Costa e Silva.’

‘Bernardo Costa e Silva has a strategic vision and deep knowledge of law.’

Key clients

Bombril

Embraer and Embraer FIP

Coperçúcar

Usiminas

Vale

Banco Safra

Petro Rio

Neoenergia

Terra Santa Agro

BTG Pactual

Anumara Capital

Banco Fator and Fator Corretora

Invepar

FIP Aeroespacial

Ático Investimentos e Participações

Kepler Weber

Banco Máxima

Fator Corretora

Impacto Energia

Siner Engenharia e Comércio

Socopa Sociedade Corretora Paulista

Truccare Cosméticos

Visiona Tecnologia Espacial

Banco Semear

Work highlights

  • Assisted PetroRio with corporate matters, including examination and advice on potential M&A transactions, shareholders meetings, compliance with rules and regulations of publicly held companies, representation before CVM and the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3), shareholders and independent auditors.
  • Assisting Eletrobras with all corporate issues involved in its privatisation.
  • Advised FIP Aeroespacial on two recent transactions.

Brazil > Dispute Resolution: Litigation Tier 7

Primarily based in Rio de Janeiro, Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados has a solid track record in acting for funds and financial services clients – including banks and brokerage firms – in litigation at the state and federal levels. Administrative proceedings before the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), the Central Bank of Brazil and the National Superintendence for Pension Funds (PREVIC) are strong points for the department, which is led by a trio of partners: Bruno Carriello and Maria Isabel do Prado Bocater, both of whom focus on corporate disputes, and Flávio Martins Rodrigues, the main contact for pension funds. Maria Carolina Melo and associate Felipe Varela Mello are also part of the core team.

Practice head(s):

Bruno Carriello; Maria Isabel do Prado Bocater; Flavio Martins Rodrigues

Key clients

Petrobras

Eletrobras – Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras

Oi

Embraer

Kepler Weber

Copersucar

Caixa de Previdência dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil (PREVI)

Real Grandeza – Fundação de Previdência e Assistência Social

Fundação Petrobras de Seguridade Social (PETROS)

Banco Paulista

Banco Fator

Fator Corretora de Valores

Fundo de Recuperação de Ativos – Fundo de Investimentos em Direitos Creditórios Não Padronizados

FIDC Brasil Plural Recuperação de Crédito

Socopa – Sociedade Corretora Paulista

Fator Projetos

Fundação de Seguridade Social Braslight

Fundação Atlântico de Seguridade Social

Fundação Forluminas de Seguridade Social (Forluz)

Fundação de Seguridade Social da ArcelorMittal Brasil (FUNSSEST)

Fundação Assistencial dos Empregados da Cesan (FAECES)

Brasco Logística Offshore (Wilson Sons)

Fundação Vale do Rio Doce de Seguridade Social (VALIA)

Grupo Inepar

BTG Pactual

Tree Florestal Empreendimentos e Participações

Commit Gas

Illuminati Fundo de Investimento em Direitos Creditórios

SLW Corretora de Valores

Work highlights

  • Representing Eletrobras in various disputes related to the company’s privatisation.
  • Acting for Ático Empreendimentos e Participações in a damages claim against Totvs.
  • Hired to file a partial dissolution lawsuit of Sendas Business Group in a R$200m case.

Brazil > Public law

Rio de Janeiro-based Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados handles an array of public an administrative law matters, standing out for its experience in cases involving oversight authorities and public bidding. André Uryn and Thiago Cardoso Araújo are the key points of contact.

Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados > Firm Profile

The firm: Founded in 1999 Bocater, Camargo, Costa e Silva, Rodrigues Advogados is structured to provide legal services to domestic and foreign clients with the majority of its practice focused in the different fields of corporate law. Bocater lawyers have solid academic backgrounds with specialised knowledge in this area, as well as professionals with expertise in other related fields of law, such as pension fund law, thus forming teams capable of providing legal assistance that meets its clients’ expectations, both in consulting and in litigation areas.

The basic commitment of the firm is to provide services in a highly expeditious way, with high technical quality, always observing due ethical standards. The firm also seeks to present the most practical and efficient solutions to the problems faced by its clients.

Main areas of practice
Corporate: Bocater deals with all aspects of corporate law, providing guidance to companies, controlling and minority shareholders; structuring policies to comply with corporate governance; counselling on shareholders’ rights; joint ventures; organisation of corporate associations, consortiums; M&A, consolidation transactions, purchase and sale of private equity; shareholders’ agreements, IPOs, designing debentures indentures and operations involving issuance of different types of securities; structuring loan transactions; restructuring debts, corporate reorganisation; transactions involving transfer of control of publicly held companies.

Capital markets: Bocater structures securities offers, purchase and sale transactions, project finance; registration before the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission- CVM, filing of prospectuses for issuance and distribution of all kind of securities, put and call options, security deposit certificates, collective investment agreements, certificates of real estate receivables, certificates of electric power forward, audiovisual investment, quotas in real estate investment funds, registration of special transactions, purchase and sale of treasury shares and public offers of securities; setting up of investment funds, real state investment funds; prospectuses for public offer notices and registration procedures, administrative proceedings at CVM and at the Council of Appeals with the National System. Bocater assists managers, fund managers, brokers and other participants of the distribution system, and respective registration before the CVM. Consultancy reports before the CVM. Defence of investors’ rights on capital market matters. Assistance in the compliance area: diagnostic, recommendations, implementation and evaluation of the compliance policies of financial intermediaries.

Pension funds: Bocater advises pension funds, sponsored or not by public sector corporations in adequacy to new regulatory provisions; structuring of by-laws and pension funds plans; structuring of entity’s internal governance; ruling of pension plans; financing rules; plan balance; interpretation of the rules regarding the issuing of benefits; plan migration process; daily routine and specific procedures aiming at minimising risks of civil liability of managers and the respective sponsor; maximisation of administrative income; advice on rules of investments for pension fund; unique investment operations; taxation; agreement with outsourced service suppliers (asset managers/administrators); administrative disputes, including audits carried on by the regulatory agency (PREVIC), Social Security Ministry and the Private Insurance Superintendence (SUSEP), representing clients in such proceedings at the administrative and judicial levels.

Tax: Bocater has experts in tax planning, counsels to optimise tax solutions in corporate restructuring, M&A, spin-off and consolidation transactions; challenging tax assessments; transfer pricing; representing clients in administrative or judicial proceedings in administrative or judicial courts.

Civil: Bocater deals with contractual matters, as fiduciary alienation, free lease, debt confession, guarantees, distribution, factoring, financial leasing, rent, insurance and services agreements. Individual successor planning and family holding structures.

Real estate: Bocater structures real estate projects and assists clients in all multiple variables of real estate development. Implementation of real estate investment funds, securitisation of real estate receivables, construction agreements, shopping malls, residential, non-residential and commercial lease agreements, built to suit lease agreements. Purchase, sale, rental of real estate and all agreements to make the project effective, due diligence works for structuring of various real estate projects.

Litigation: Bocater litigates on the matters relating to its areas of practice, acting in courts across Brazil, and the higher courts in Brasilia. BCCS assists clients in complex litigation in Brazil and abroad and in consultancy for the preventive measures avoiding court litigation. BCCS represents clients on arbitration procedures in Brazil and abroad and on using alternative dispute resolution methods.

Labour: Bocater offers preventative and strategic guidance with respect to potential labor claims, assistance in the reduction of materialized payroll liabilities, preparation of legal opinions recommending adjustments to procedures for the elimination or reduction of possible contingencies, advice on the preparation of labor audits, assessing materialized or potential labor contingencies, follow-up on inspections by the labor authorities, representation of individuals in labor proceedings, and clients’ defense in public-interest civil actions or execution of consent decrees issued by the Labor Prosecution Office.

Administrative and public law: Bocater deals with a wide range of administrative law matters, representing clients in proceedings before the Federal Audit Court (tribunal de Contas da Uniao) and other control institutions (State Audit Courts, National Comptroller General’s Office and Public Prosecutor’s Office). The firm also stands out by offering legal advice to government authorities, state-owned enterprises, government-controlled private companies and public foundations. Also Bocater excels in consultancy in contracts with those entities as well. The firm’s expertise includes negotiation and management of public contracts; public concessions; PPPs; management of public works contracts with a focus on budgeting, cost engineering and risk mitigation; preparation and follow-up of contractual claims for economic/financial adjustments with government bodies and government controlled corporations, including mechanisms for dispute resolution such as dispute boards and arbitration. The firm also advises and represents clients in administrative procedures before regulatory agencies and others relating to specialised administrative and judicial litigation.

Clients: The firm’s client base includes large public held companies, minority shareholders, financial institutions, fund managers, brokers, oil and petrochemical companies, real estate companies, infrastructure companies and the major pension funds entities.

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