Bocater Advogados

Bocater Advogados was founded in 1999 with a focus on corporate law and capital markets. Over the years, the firm has expanded its practice to other business law practices, such as pension fund regulation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, public and administrative law, banking, civil, labour, real estate, corporate governance and insurance.

Bocater Advogados brings together professionals with solid academic backgrounds and in-depth specialist knowledge in their areas of expertise, forming teams capable of providing personalized legal assistance geared to the client’s needs, both in the advisory sphere and in litigation and arbitration.

Our practices work in an integrated and multidisciplinary manner, seeking to offer clients solutions to the technical aspects of each case submitted to our analysis, while also taking into account the respective strategic implications that may affect them.

Capital Markets: We have extensive experience in capital markets transactions, including complex and innovative matters. Our team has decades of experience in the area, advising domestic and foreign clients from a wide range of industries.

Civil Law: Advice on matters related to obligations, contracts and inheritance and estate planning.

Corporate and Business Law: Acting in corporate transactions involving various types of companies and other legal entities (notably public and private limited companies).

Corporate Governance: Advice on structuring and monitoring processes, policies and regulations for organizations seeking to implement best governance practices.

Dispute Resolution: We work on a wide range of disputes, formulating pre-litigation strategies to prevent or settle disputes in court, in arbitration and in judicial and administrative proceedings. We are highly specialized in administrative proceedings involving sanctions from the CVM, Bacen and Previc.

Financial and Capital Markets Infrastructure: Our Financial and Capital Markets Infrastructure practice is recognized for the academic solidity and technical precision of the solutions presented to clients, which is the result of our partners’ professional experience with regulators and self-regulators in the financial and capital markets.

Infrastructure and Regulation: Assistance on infrastructure projects for the construction of legal solutions and the modelling of contracts and business operations involving the private sector, public bodies and financial institutions, with the aim of implementing projects of the most diverse types, sectors and sizes.

Insurance: Comprehensive advice on matters relating to the area, both in consulting and in judicial and administrative litigation, as well as in conducting arbitrations and mediations.

Labour: Advisory, preventive and contentious advice, specializing in labor aspects related to social security benefits and supplementary pensions.

Pension Funds and Institutional Investors: Comprehensive advice for closed pension funds and their sponsors. Our professionals in this practice have a deep understanding of actuaries, corporate governance and investment management. As such, they are able to provide differentiated legal support to clients. We have special expertise in investment regulation, where we work in partnership with our capital markets and corporate law areas.

Public Law: We advise clients on their relations with direct and indirect public administration bodies, municipalities (including regulatory agencies), public companies, mixed-capital companies and public foundations.

Real Estate: Advisory services focused on structuring real estate receivables securitization operations, issuing securities, setting up investment funds, financing and setting up real guarantees.