Lefosse Advogados

With a track record in landmark cases and a deep understanding of each client’s context, we have received over 600 national and international recognitions in the past year.

We operate in a multidisciplinary and specialised manner across more than 20 areas of law, serving a wide range of industries. We are a law firm that empowers businesses, guided by an entrepreneurial mindset, trust, and the courage to go further.

Each of our professionals plays a fundamental role in strengthening who we are and what we value on a daily basis, and our culture is based on values and principles that guide all our decisions.

Practice Areas

Agribusiness: Our multidisciplinary team of agribusiness lawyers offers complete and practical legal solutions for the most complex challenges in the agro-industrial chain.

With excellence in landmark transactions in the sector, including capital markets offerings, we ensure a business-oriented approach, always attentive to opportunities, innovations, technologies, and ESG issues. We operate in strategic transactions involving financing, fund structuring, land regularization, and regulation of new solutions, including carbon markets and sustainable projects.

Aviation: We advise airlines, airport concessionaires, manufacturers, and global investors. We have strong expertise in airport infrastructure projects, privatizations, and slot regulation, with experience in both major international players’ claims and administrative disputes.

We closely monitor sector decisions and legislative changes, providing greater legal security to clients, including key points of ANAC’s Regulatory Agenda and the airport infrastructure concession agenda.

Banking, Operations and Financial Services: Our practice is recognized for technical precision, market knowledge, and experience in domestic and multi-jurisdictional transactions.

We execute cross-border and domestic banking transactions, national and international capital markets operations, structured transactions, and restructurings, with a focus on financial services.

Capital Markets: We act for issuers, selling shareholders, and coordinators in public and private offerings (CVM/B3, 144A/Reg S, ADRs, BDRs), combining solid legal architecture, well-managed timelines, and objective documentation. Our team integrates ECM (IPOs, follow-ons, block trades, equity-linked) and DCM (debentures, commercial notes, CRI/CRA, bonds/high-yield, convertibles), as well as liability management (tenders, exchanges, consent solicitations). We deliver closing certainty and continuous compliance, from registration/delisting of public companies to listing/delisting and technical interaction with CVM and B3.

Competition and Antitrust: We work on M&A transactions, investigations, and complex litigation, as well as preventive consulting for Brazilian and international companies. Our approach is strategic, multidisciplinary, and aligned with business objectives, ensuring effective and secure solutions.

With solid experience in Competition and Antitrust, we represent clients before CADE, regulatory agencies, and the Judiciary. Our commitment is to deliver fast and assertive responses, mitigating risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Compliance and Investigations: Our team of compliance and corporate governance specialists is composed of highly qualified professionals with extensive experience advising Brazilian and international clients. We handle highly complex cases, both in prevention and in crisis management and risk mitigation, with a strong focus on compliance investigations.

Our multidisciplinary team brings together experts in Corporate Law, Governance, Civil and Administrative Litigation, and Competition Law. This integration enables a comprehensive and strategic approach aligned with each client’s specific needs.

Corporate and M&A: Our practice delivers end-to-end execution in complex transactions — from design to integration — with a focus on closing certainty, timing, and efficient risk allocation. We serve public and private companies, strategic and financial investors, with integrated work on tender offers, reorganizations, shareholder agreements, related-party transactions, and meetings.

We represent clients in all aspects of Brazilian corporate law and the public company regime (CVM), with extensive experience in regulated transactions and procedures, including public tender offers, mergers/share exchanges, and high-complexity governance.

Data Center: Integrated solutions to implement, install, and scale data centers in Brazil—from energy access to real estate, regulatory, tax, and corporate structuring.

With a highly specialized team in the Data Center sector and extensive practical market experience across Public Law and Regulation, Energy, Real Estate, Environmental, Corporate and M&A, and Tax, we offer tailored solutions for the industry. Our full-service structure and multidisciplinary approach meet the specific needs of all stakeholders in the Data Center industry.

Dispute Resolution: We handle cases such as local and international contractual disputes, corporate disputes, construction and infrastructure disputes, administrative and judicial banking and corporate litigation, commercial disputes, collection/execution, product liability, environmental, and antitrust matters.

We provide top-tier advice in highly complex situations and crisis management, representing major national corporations, financial institutions, government entities, international investors, and multinational organizations.

Energy: We combine regulatory knowledge and understanding of clients’ business models to deliver customized, efficient, and innovative solutions. Our work covers legal-regulatory consulting, transactions and complex operations in the Free Contracting Environment (ACL) and Regulated Environment (ACR), advisory and participation in generation and transmission auctions, and issuance of legal opinions.

We also have a strong presence in specialized energy regulatory disputes, representing companies in the sector both in the administrative sphere (MME, ANEEL, EPE, ONS, and CCEE) and in judicial and arbitral proceedings.

Environmental: We work to mitigate risks and address contingencies, ensuring legal certainty for companies facing complex challenges.

Our environmental lawyers provide comprehensive advice on all matters related to Brazilian legislation. We work with technical excellence and strategic vision, always aligned with clients’ objectives. This personalized approach adds value and strengthens environmental risk management.

ESG: Our work ranges from structuring sustainable projects to developing corporate governance programs.

We are also a reference in advising on carbon credit projects, supporting companies at every stage of the cycle: conception, certification, transactions, and regulatory compliance. With multidisciplinary expertise, we provide legal security and credibility for decarbonization initiatives and nature-based projects aligned with global emission reduction targets.

Highways and Railways: In a dynamic environment, the segment demands highly specialized legal advice to address regulatory, contractual, and financing challenges, ensuring legal security and efficiency at all stages of projects.

Our firm has recognized leadership in major transportation infrastructure projects in the country, with recurring participation in highway and railway auctions promoted by ANTT. We advise concessionaires, strategic investors, investment funds, financial institutions, and major industry players, from structuring and participating in auctions to contract management and dispute resolution.

Infrastructure: Our team provides comprehensive legal advice for complex projects, covering regulated sectors such as Energy, Oil and Gas, Highways and Railways, Maritime and Port, Aviation, Sanitation, and Telecommunications.

Our differentiator lies in our ability to support all phases of projects and transactions, delivering complete solutions for bidding processes, financing, development, and regulatory management.

Insurance, Reinsurance and Private Pensions: We have extensive experience in regulatory consulting, contracts (representation, stipulation, commercial and operational agreements, and reinsurance), registration and licensing of companies in the sector, review and drafting of contractual conditions, corporate transactions, and significant deals requiring regulatory approval (portfolio transfers, sponsorship withdrawal, management transfer, among others), administrative sanctioning proceedings, strategic litigation, and claims.

International Trade: We have deep knowledge of topics and agreements negotiated within the World Trade Organization (WTO) and experience in disputes handled by its Dispute Settlement Body. We advise companies on navigating regulatory and legal challenges imposed by international sanctions, trade defense measures, and tariff changes.

Investment Funds: With deep regulatory knowledge and market insight, we advise managers, administrators, and other industry players on sophisticated transactions, ensuring legal certainty and efficiency. Our practice covers liquid funds, alternative funds, and innovative strategies, with emphasis on real estate investment funds (FII), agribusiness production chain funds (FIAGRO), private equity funds (FIP), receivables funds (FIDC), infrastructure funds, and funds focused on special situations and capital solutions.

Labor: We help companies navigate Brazilian labor laws safely, identifying risks and developing effective strategies to avoid litigation and other disputes, both judicial and administrative — including collective matters and union negotiations.

With personalized service and direct involvement of partners and senior professionals, our team ensures attention to every stage of legal and strategic analysis. Our labor lawyers contribute to building better alternatives and solutions, focusing on risk prevention, reducing materialized liabilities, and optimizing workforce management costs, as well as attracting and retaining talent.

Life Sciences: We advise companies on matters related to healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, food and beverages, biodiversity and biotechnology, cosmetics, fertilizers, healthtechs, telemedicine, among others.

Given the sector’s innovative nature and high investment volume, legal challenges must be addressed by professionals familiar with the healthcare industry. Our team combines regulatory, contractual, litigation, criminal, antitrust, intellectual property, and other legal expertise to deliver complete and tailored solutions.

Maritime and Port: Our practice stands out for its strategic and integrated approach in navigation, offshore services, and public and private terminals. We represent a wide range of clients, including shipowners, cargo owners, private equity funds, and financial institutions, offering comprehensive and tailored legal solutions for every need. The firm is recognized for its leadership in high-impact transactions, such as the largest M&A in the Brazilian port sector, as well as innovative projects shaping the future of the industry.

Mining: In synergy with various legal practices, our team includes highly experienced lawyers and partners who have in-depth knowledge of the sector’s dynamics, its public and private players, and its regulatory framework, enabling us to meet the demands of clients with interests or operations at any stage of the mining production chain.

Your plan may be to access the market, finance, acquire, sell, or design and develop a mining project, obtain a mining title, engage with communities, governments or other stakeholders, structure a complex transaction, enter into a strategic partnership, develop internal policies or resolve a dispute. In any case, we will be your partner in that plan, at every stage.

Oil & Gas: We combine regulatory knowledge and practical experience to support companies in complex transactions, enabling us to be part of the panel of law firms for leading industry players.

We have participated in significant projects in the sector, including the opening of the refining market, the creation of the new natural gas market, and initiatives focused on energy transition and the ESG agenda. Our team is composed of professionals with experience in law firms, companies, and regulatory agencies, ensuring a broad perspective and solutions aligned with client needs.

Patent: Our team is a reference in Patent Law, with strong performance in litigation involving complex technologies in sectors such as pharmaceuticals and telecommunications.

We have participated in significant disputes, including cases involving Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) and actions related to high-impact medicines in Brazil. With a strategic approach and deep technical knowledge, we deliver solutions that protect innovation assets and ensure competitive advantage for our clients.

Project Development and Financing: Our work is grounded in solid legal expertise, with a focus on drafting and negotiating contracts applicable to all phases of the project – including modeling, construction, and operation. For the construction phase, we assist in drafting and negotiating supply agreements, construction management, service agreements, turnkey contracts, EPCs, TSAs, BOTs, among others. Regarding the operation phase, we provide advice on drafting and negotiating infrastructure sharing agreements, O&Ms, JOAs, PPAs, take-or-pay agreements, and other instruments aligned with international market standards. We also assist clients in drafting and negotiating all contracts required to obtain project financing, including initial CAPEX.

Public Law and Regulation: We structure projects involving public entities, including joint ventures, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions of public assets, as well as bidding processes and administrative contracts, concessions, PPPs, administrative proceedings, and contractual rebalance.

We specialize in Public Law and market regulation with extensive experience in privatization and concession projects, as well as markets regulated by the government, especially in telecommunications, media and audiovisual, civil aviation, airports, highways, mining, gaming & betting, sanitation, infrastructure, ports, defense, and public services in general. We handle both transactional and advisory aspects, as well as contentious matters, ensuring comprehensive solutions for complex operations.

Real Estate: Our practice combines technical expertise and strategic vision to deliver multidisciplinary and sophisticated solutions for real estate investments (direct or indirect) and for the development and management of real estate assets.

We also advise clients on a variety of matters related to urban properties (commercial or industrial) and rural properties. Our client base includes leading market investors, as well as managers and real estate investment funds.

Restructuring and Insolvency: Our practice was designed to serve companies, banks, investors, shareholders, government entities, and multinational organizations.

With a multidisciplinary team, we offer tailored solutions for financial reorganization, debt negotiation, and judicial, out-of-court, and bankruptcy proceedings. Our experience in restructuring includes strategic support for companies in crisis, always focused on risk mitigation and value preservation.

Sanitation: Our firm has a successful history in privatization and concession projects in the sanitation sector, with deep knowledge of the regulatory framework updated by Law No. 14,026/2020 and the opportunities and challenges involved in concession-based operations.

Our multidisciplinary and specialized approach allows us to assist clients in all stages and challenges of their projects—regulatory, contentious, or transactional—related to the sanitation operations and investment chain.

Sports Betting: We are at the forefront of the betting industry, with consolidated experience even before the enactment of Federal Law No. 14,790/2023.

Our multidisciplinary team provides strategic and tailored guidance for betting operators, investors, and companies seeking legal security and efficiency. With experience in gaming, lotteries, and betting, our lawyers deliver solutions that meet all regulatory requirements.

Tax: Our practice offers sophisticated legal solutions for companies facing tax challenges.

The team is led by experienced partners recognized in the market, with international experience and technical expertise in tax law, accounting, and corporate law. This combination allows us to understand the practical implications of our clients’ tax decisions and propose strategies aligned with business objectives.

We have strong performance in administrative and judicial tax litigation, which we handle with technical excellence and a focus on results

Technology, Data Protection and Intellectual Property: Our lawyers specializing in data protection and intellectual property have extensive knowledge of digital business models. Working in an integrated manner with other areas of the firm, we provide consulting for companies such as fintechs, healthtechs, insurtechs, and startups.

Recognized as one of the leading data protection law firms globally, we combine a multidisciplinary perspective with attention to market trends. We are ready to deliver specialized, efficient legal advice aligned with each client’s objectives and needs.

Telecommunications: With unique expertise in satellites, submarine cables, telecommunications infrastructure and networks, towers, radiofrequency auctions, fiber optics, and telecom products and equipment, we assist clients in all phases of licensing, regulatory compliance, approvals for emerging technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and administrative proceedings.

Our experience includes satellites, submarine cables, telecom networks and towers, radiofrequency auctions, fiber optics, and emerging technologies such as IoT and 5G.

Wealth Planning: We work with discretion and a tailored approach, supporting families, family offices, private clients, and individuals relocating (expatriates and impatriates).

A well-structured reorganization ensures the preservation of assets and family values and principles. Throughout the process, we strive to maintain family stability and well-being, avoid continuity crises in management, and provide elements for tax, corporate, and family decision-making.

White-Collar Crime:We provide tailored solutions, combining contentious defense and preventive consulting to mitigate risks and ensure compliance.

We develop integrated strategies with other areas of the firm, such as civil litigation, regulatory, labor, antitrust, restructuring and insolvency, intellectual property, transactional areas, life sciences, and others. This coordinated approach ensures fast and effective responses to complex challenges.