What are the most significant cases or transactions that your legal team has recently been involved in?

Over the past year, our legal team has been closely involved in complex corporate reorganization and M&A integration matters across Latin America, with a strong focus on risk management, regulatory compliance, and transaction execution.

The team advised on corporate structuring, coordinated legal, tax, and finance workstreams, supported external due diligence, and drafted and negotiated core transaction documents required to implement mergers, business transfers, and entity simplifications. The work also included assessing contract continuity, regulatory approvals, and labor‑related implications arising from the restructuring. In parallel, the team has handled tax and regulatory advisory work, employment matters linked to reorganizations, and the review and negotiation of strategic commercial and operational contracts impacted by structural changes. Overall, the team has played a central role in enabling business transformation initiatives while mitigating legal, tax, and operational risk in multiple jurisdictions.

What new pressures are you facing from the business as expectations for legal to act as a strategic partner continue to grow?

The main pressure is the expectation that legal moves upstream – supporting business strategy early rather than reacting to decisions already taken. This requires balancing speed and pragmatism with robust risk assessment, particularly in transactions, restructurings, and market‑entry initiatives. Legal teams are also expected to provide commercially grounded advice, translate regulatory risk into business impact, and support leadership with clear, actionable recommendations while operating under increasing cost and timeline constraints.

What strategies has your legal team adopted to manage disputes and mitigate risks in Brazil’s dynamic business environment?

The legal team prioritises early risk identification and prevention, with a strong emphasis on contract quality, clear allocation of responsibilities, and dispute‑avoidance mechanisms. Where disputes arise, the strategy is to combine local expertise with regional oversight, ensuring consistency of approach while accounting for Brazilian procedural and judicial particularities. Alternative dispute resolution, cost‑benefit assessments, and alignment with business objectives are key elements of the dispute‑management framework.

How have economic fluctuations, exchange‑rate volatility or supply‑chain pressures in 2026 influenced your legal priorities?

Economic volatility and supply‑chain pressures have increased the legal team’s focus on contract resilience and flexibility. This includes closer scrutiny of pricing, currency, termination, hardship and force‑majeure clauses, as well as supporting the business in renegotiations where commercial conditions change materially. Legal has also been more involved in assessing counterparty risk, supporting contingency planning, and aligning legal strategies with broader cost‑control and risk‑mitigation initiatives.