Ribeiro de Oliveira & Advogados Associados

BUSINESS RELATIONS

Commercial trade; securities; bankruptcies and forced agreements; leasing and leaseback, transportation; agency; insurance; factoring; franchising; know-how.

PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS AND COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPS

Creation, merger, acquisitions, transformations and split-up; stockholders' conflicts; stockholders' agreement; stockholder withdrawal.

ENVIRONMENT

Licensing; registration at the technical file of potentially-pollutant activities or activities using environmental resources; administrative defenses and suits questioning fines and other penalties; environment inspection tax.

REGULATORY AGENCIES OF PUBLIC SERVICES

Administrative procedures before agencies such as ANEEL (National Electric Power Agency), ANATEL (National Telecommunications Agency), ANP (National Petroleum Agency) and ANA (National Water Agency).

LABOR RELATIONS

Preventive consulting; labor agreements; terminations; collective labor agreements; administrative defenses before the Regional Labor Department; judicial defenses.

CREDIT RECOVERY

Credit declaration; credit execution; stay of execution.

INTERNATIONAL CONTRACTS

Preparation, negotiation, credit notes; transportation; transfer of know-how; registration at Banco Central (the Central Bank of Brazil).

HIGH COURTS

Applying and follow-up of appeals; briefs; oral argument; homologation and execution of foreign judgment or award.

RESTRUCTURING OF LEGAL DEPARTMENTS

Redimensioning; outsourcing; analysis of potential risk in view of judicially secured amounts.

CIVIL RELATIONS

Contracts; credit assignments; loss and damage and loss of profits; pain and suffering; civil liability for accident, occupational disease, malpractice; real estate transactions.

TAXES AND FINANCES

Administrative impugnments; recovery of taxes overpaid; actions for annulment of tax assessments; injunctions.

ECONOMIC RELATIONS

Unfair trade competition; abuse of economic power; anti-trust and anti-dumping; approval or impugnment of mergers or acquisitions before CADE (Administrative Council for Economic Defense).

CONSUMER RELATIONS

Representation before the Procon's (consumer defense agencies); liability of producer, supplier and provider of services; contracts; guarantee; pecuniary damages and pain and suffering; defaulter file.

SOCIAL SECURITY RELATIONS

Administrative and judicial defenses; actions for annulment of tax assessments.

FRANCHISE OF AUTOMOTIVE VEHICLES

Franchise agreements, both preventive and litigious; relationship with suppliers; consumer relation; direct sale; substitute ICMS (added-value tax on sales and services); liability for client infraction.

BIDDINGS - INVITATIONS TO BID

Impugnment of invitation to bid; administrative remedies; preliminary orders; actions for annulment.

ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION

Terms of arbitration; mediation agreement; legal follow-up.

LEGAL AUDIT

Analysis of contracts; legal relations; civil liability; control of deposits in court.

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