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Huck, Otranto, Camargo Advogados > Firm Profile

Huck Otranto Camargo was founded in 1993 by lawyers with long academic and professional experience, and many years of joint service and professional relationships.

Both the founders and members who joined the firm in subsequent years are known for their dedication, willingness to work hard, thorough provision of services, and intellectual involvement in law, both in theory and practice.

Huck Otranto Camargo has a significant number of professors, doctors, masters and postgraduates, with diplomas awarded by the best universities in Brazil and abroad.

Trainees are selected from the most traditional and reputable schools, and the firm favours organic growth, allowing for greater cohesion and permanence of its culture. Most members have joined Huck Otranto Camargo since their internships.

Practice areas
Litigation and arbitration: Huck Otranto Camargo’s view is that each dispute is unique and deserves an individualized treatment. As a result of this approach, the litigation and arbitration area is a major benchmark for the firm, which is ready to represent the clients’ interests in court proceedings, administrative bodies and arbitration courts.

Conflicts are entrusted to specific and interdisciplinary groups, aiming at high quality and efficient results. The ability to mobilize forces, take simultaneous initiatives and react promptly on different fronts has proved to be an important point to secure Huck Otranto Camargo’s advantageous position in dispute resolution.

This area is capable of serving clients all over Brazil and abroad. With the support of the Brasilia office, the firm’s professionals are able to closely monitor the cases, both before the higher courts and the public administration entities.

Corporate: Huck Otranto Camargo’s corporate area is always up to date to consult and implement the different forms of business legal structuring in domestic and international operations. The team combines comprehensive and interdisciplinary approaches, with knowledge of the markets and their legal constraints, instruments and opportunities.

The firm has long and intense experience in the full range of corporate structuring and restructuring, procurement, modelling and negotiation of contracts – from agribusiness to the digital economy; financing, protection and exploitation of intellectual property, technologies and interactions with various regulated environments and defence of competition.

The corporate professionals coordinate with those in the tax, litigation, real estate and labour areas, so that clients’ issues and problems find comprehensive solutions that consider all aspects and legal implications of each case.

To this end, they seek knowledge of clients’ businesses and their strategies and objectives, for individualized guidance and advice, and for joint planning of positioning tactics for negotiations and pre-dispute situations.

Tax: Huck Otranto Camargo’s tax practice provides the clients with customized, innovative and up-to-date tax solutions. Integration with other areas, as well as lasting and constant contact with clients, ensures efficiency, clarity and security to the strategic decision-making process.

The firm is highly regarded in this area, offering extensive advice to national and foreign individuals and legal entities in the advisory and litigation, administrative and judicial fronts. The team provides assistance in the following: the assessment, rationalization and optimization of tax costs in corporate, real estate, succession, agribusiness and corporate restructuring; the structuring, incorporation and organization of new companies and businesses in Brazil and abroad; acting incisively in judicial and administrative representation of clients; the assessment of risks and chances of success in claims where the clients are plaintiffs or respondents.

Huck Otranto Camargo’s tax team is made up of lawyers with a solid academic and professional background, who work in an integrated manner with the other areas of the firm. The accumulated experience in working before the administrative and judicial courts and in tax consultancy and planning brings confidence to clients from the creation of new businesses to the conduct of administrative and judicial proceedings. The firm also counts on the collaboration of the Brasilia office, which enables the direct and immediate follow-up of the proceedings before the higher courts.

Real estate: The firm’s real estate team assists the broad spectrum of transactions: typical real estate transactions (such as buy and sell, barter, donation and lease), more complex businesses (such as built-to-suit leases, sale and leaseback, turn-key transactions, constitution of surface rights), structuring of atypical real estate developments, real estate-backed financial transactions, among others.

Huck Otranto Camargo is recognized for its broad experience in the industry and for its pioneering spirit and constant updating in developing new ways of undertaking real estate and structuring atypical businesses. Its performance involves both urban and rural real estate, with extensive knowledge of the various alternatives available for exploitation, and creativity to suggest new possibilities of exploration. It performs audits, analysis of urban aspects, business structuring, negotiation and drafting of contracts and real estate regularization.

The real estate area is made up of a team with exclusive dedication, which acts in a personalized manner and coordinates with other areas of the firm (especially with the tax and corporate areas), seeking to provide the client, for each investment or venture, with the most complete, most suitable, most efficient and least costly instrument while remaining safe.

Labour and social security: Huck Otranto Camargo has a tradition of strategic advice and effective defence in labour and social security, administrative and judicial litigation. The firm acts in all Labour Justice courts as well as before the Ministry of Labour and the Public Prosecution Service in individual labour claims and collective bargaining, public civil actions, civil inquiries, negotiation of conduct adjustment agreement – TAC, collections of social contributions/INSS and FGTS, indemnity actions for work accident or illness, harassment and discrimination, interdiction of facilities and equipment and other related issues. The attorneys in the area assist clients in assessing contingencies and possibilities of success for joint strategic decision making, and closely monitor the case in each phase. The firm’s objective is to tailor the clients’ defence to the specific situation of each case and the most appropriate legal theses.

Strategic, market and multidisciplinary vision is Huck Otranto Camargo’s mark in defining the litigation line of action and in general labour and social security legal advice, as well as when representing clients in collective bargaining, strike situations, labour inspections, social security issues and audits.

Our experience includes: advising on the structuring and restructuring of the personnel, sectors and teams, including start-ups; advising companies entering the Brazilian market and outsourcing processes; flexible working hours; job and salary planning; variable compensation; awards as well as other incentives; effects on payroll and discipline of labour reflexes; promotions and changes in positions and transfers; hiring and granting of incentive benefits; PLR and PDV, in addition to termination of contracts, in bulk and in strategic positions; sale and purchase; closing units; occupational safety and medicine; corporate training and legal advice on accident prevention and harassment and discrimination, whilst always seeking to optimize and provide security to clients.

Family and succession planning: The family and succession planning area requires a personalized and careful service, capable of understanding the specific concerns and interests of each person and the family the person belongs to.

Huck Otranto Camargo is aligned with this form of service and has extensive experience in the area. The firm acts in the structuring of family and succession planning, providing advice on the corporate and patrimonial organization, in the preparation of documents such as prenuptial agreements, coexistence contracts and wills. The team also advises and defends clients in legal and extrajudicial discussions concerning marriage, common law marriage, property regime, custody and visits of minors, alimony, property sharing, inventories, enrolment and interdiction. Furthermore, the firm’s professionals perform mediations.

The firm has a team fully dedicated to family and succession law, which, in order to offer a complete and personalized service, works in conjunction with the corporate, tax and real estate teams to provide comprehensive solutions to clients.

Lawyer Profiles

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	Mr Thomas Alexandre de Carvalho	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Alexia Almeida Rodrigues	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Fernanda Annenberg	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Ana Carolina Barbuio Affonso	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Diego Billi Falcão	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Isabella Mara Bodo	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Fernanda Cardoso de Almeida Dias da Rocha	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Rogério Carmona Bianco	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Lucas Carneiro Gorgulho Mendes Barros	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Luiz Antonio Castro de Miranda Filho	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Henrique Ceolin Bortolo	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Paulo Cesar Butti Cardoso	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Otávio Dias Ferraz Paixão	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Alexandre Domingues Serafim	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Thalita Duarte Henriques Pinto	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Maria Fernanda de Medeiros Redi	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Brenda Ferreira Almeida	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Ana Flora Vaz Lobato Diaz	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Fábio Floriano Melo Martins	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Lucas Franco Pereira Gaspar	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Priscila Furgeri Morando	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Gabriela Garbelini Marques de Oliveira	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Isabel Garcia Calich da Fonseca	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Lucas Garcia de Moura Gavião	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Henrique Giongo Maluf	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Guilherme Gomes Pereira	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Luis Gustavo Haddad	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Luis Henrique Silva Bomfim Junior	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Antonio Heraldo Wajnman Lima	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Marco Aurélio Ibanhes Chakur	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Juliana Krueger Pela	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Estela Maria Lemos Monteiro Soares de Camargo	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Pedro Lopes de Carvalho	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Célia Mara Peres	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Hermes Marcelo Huck	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Camila Marchetti Villares	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Daniela Maria Rosa Nascimento	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Raquel Maria Sarno Otranto Colangelo	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Lucas Martini de Aguiar	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Henrique Mellão Cecchi de Oliveira	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Tiago Molina Ferreira	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Guilherme Montebugnoli Zilio	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Thomaz Henrique Monteiro Whately	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Mônica Naomi Murayama	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Paulo Vitor Paula Santos Zampieri	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Luiz Felipe Pereira Gomes Lopes	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Elaine Perez	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Bruno Robert	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Luiz Otávio Rodrigues Ferreira	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Amanda Salis Guazzelli	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Julia Samson Almeidinha	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Geovanna Segatto de Moura	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Beatriz Toratti	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Luciana Valverde Grinberg	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Renan Varollo Perlati	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Maurício Vedovato	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Ricardo Vercesi Saad	Partner	View Profile
	Ms Barbara Weg	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Rodolfo da Costa Manso Real Amadeo	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Rodrigo da Costa Marques	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Mauricio de Carvalho Silveira Bueno	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Paulo de Lorenzo Messina	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Matheus de Mello Adães	Partner	View Profile
	Mr Eduardo de Oliveira Lima	Partner	View Profile
	Mr João Paulo de Seixas Maia Krepel	Partner	View Profile