Amaral e Nicolau Advogados > Sao Paulo, Brazil > Firm Profile

Amaral e Nicolau Advogados
AVENIDA BRIGADEIRO FARIA LIMA
1993-1º ANDAR
01452-001 SÃO PAULO
Brazil

Brazil > Real estate Tier 4

Amaral e Nicolau Advogados is praised for its ‘very personalised service’ and ‘fast and very qualified team’. The lawyers support major developers, investment funds and corporates with ‘agility, proactivity and reliability’. Recently, the team has been especially active in rural and urban land acquisitions, joint venture agreements, and residential development projects. Name partner Jose Vincente Amaral and his team are ‘always available’ and praised for their ‘technical experience’. Fellow founder Julio Nicolau Filho leads on contentious matters.

Practice head(s):

José Vicente Amaral Filho; Julio Nicolau Filho

Testimonials

‘Very personalised service, fast and very qualified team.’

‘Amaral e Nicolau Advogados has always provided services with agility, proactivity and reliability. The team has always been very helpful and flexible in adapting to the developer’s needs.’

‘Partner José Vicente Amaral Filho and his team are extremely reliable. They are always available, have technical experience and availability to assist us whenever we need it.’

Key clients

Tegra Incorporadora

Even Construtora

Helbor Empreendimentos

You

Nortis Incorporadora e Construtora

Tibério Construtora

Munir Abbud Empreendimentos Imobiliários

Toledo Ferrari

Grupo Lar

Trisul

Alinc – Casas Pernambucanas

Skr Incorporadora e Construtora

Braskem

Gafisa

Wds Construtora e Incorporadora

Jive Investiments

Focal Incorporadora

Work highlights

  • Advivising Tegra on the acquisition of a village of houses by means of extrajudicial usucaption.
  • Advising Norris on a residential development.

Founded in 1997, Amaral e Nicolau Advogados enjoys a high reputation as one of the leading real estate law firms in São Paulo. The firm’s vast experience means it regularly handles many of the largest, most complex and demanding real estate transactions in Brazil. Amaral e Nicolau also focuses on sensitive real estate litigation matters, and in counseling boards of directors and senior management in the most sensitive situations.

Amaral e Nicolau approaches its clients’ legal issues focusing on the larger framework of each client’s strategic, business and financial goals. The firm focuses on matters that require the attention, extensive experience, expertise and reputation of its partners. Matters undertaken by the firm are at all times afforded the direct personal attention of a partner who will have the expertise and sophistication with respect to the issues in question.

Amaral e Nicolau’s managing partners, José Vicente Amaral Filho and Julio Nicolau Filho, have been leading legal departments within the most traditional real estate developers of Brazil. It has ensured the firm has become one of the most prestigious law firms dealing with real estate practice in São Paulo. This enables the firm to attract the most outstanding and motivated attorneys and law school graduates in São Paulo state.

Amaral e Nicolau consistently ranks near the top of legal real estate advisors by transaction dollar volume, even though it is significantly smaller than all of its major competitors. Over the past several years, the firm has been the legal advisor on some of the largest real estate transactions in São Paulo state.

Representation of diverse client base, both institutional and entrepreneurial, in project, joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, operations, development planning, and land use involving all property types, from retail, office, residential (multi-family and condominiums), industrial, and the full range of hospitality projects, located across Brazil.

Department Name Email Telephone
Real estate (consulting) José Vicente Amaral Filho vicente@amaralenicolau.com.br 55 11 30341949
Real estate (litigation) Júlio Nicolau Filho julio@amaralenicolau.com.br 55 11 30341949
Real estate (consulting) Felipe Varela Hollanda felipe@amaralenicolau.com.br 55 11 30341949
Real estate (consulting) Rodrigo Palácio rodrigo@amaralenicolau.com.br 55 11 30341949
Real estate (consulting) Lumy Tahara lumy@amaralenicolau.com.br 55 11 30341949
Real estate (litigation) Larissa Pimentel Lilla Mofarej larissa@amaralenicolau.com.br 55 11 30341949
Real estate (litigation) Kátia Alessandra Marsulo Soares katia@amaralenicolau.com.br 55 11 30341949
Total staff : 40
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