Trade Law
and Customs Law
Trade Law
Consultancy, preparation and conduction of antidumping, countervailing and safeguards investigation in Brazil or in other jurisdictions. Barral Parente Pinheiro Advogados also acts before the World Trade Organization on complaints and arbitral panels.
International Commercial Contracts
Legal advisory on international transactions and commercial relations. Contractual review for implementation of commercial best practices and adoption of most adequate rules of contract. Conflict mitigation through the evaluation of the most adequate dispute resolution mechanisms.
International Financing and Remittances
Legal advising on financing for the acquisition, importation and exportation of goods and services. Evaluation of tax structures and double taxation agreements in international operations. Cost sharing and remittances for international payment or profit distribution.
Customs and Tax Judicial and Administrative Contentious
Legal representation in judicial and administrative processes on customs matters and special customs regime. Evaluation and development of tax efficiency mechanisms.
Special Customs Regimes
and Tax Incentives
Legal and strategical advisory for the assessment of tax advantages in international operations. Strategic planning for the subscription and request for inclusion of operations in special customs regime, aiming to mitigate losses and generate value in international operations.
Administrative Law, Regulation and Infrastructure
Railways
Preparation and structuring of railroad authorization requests. Regulatory assistance in multidisciplinary matters regarding railroad-port infrastructure. Legal advice to railroad concessionaires and preparation of requests for economic-financial rebalancing of concession agreements and requests for contract extensions.
Roadways
Assistance in drafting requests for rebalancing of administrative agreements before federal and state agencies. Negotiation of Conduct Adjustment Terms (TACs) with regulatory agencies. Actions in judicial and superior courts on sectorial and particular concessionaire issues..
Airport Sector
Representation of sectoral entities and airport concessionaires in judicial and administrative claims before regulatory agencies. Preparation of studies and participation in public consultations and hearings. Review of regulations regarding inspections of airport infrastructures and review of quality metrics for airport operators.
Ports
Administrative proceedings before ANTAQ and MINFRA. Regulatory advice for container, liquid and bulk cargo terminals. Advisory for the elaboration of public policies applied to the sector. Legal assistance to private terminals in legal claims and before administrative courts.
Energy and O&G
Assistance to companies with claims before ANEEL. Consultancy on taxation in the electricity sector. Elaboration of regulatory and marketing studies in the scope of the power and O&G sectors. Legal action on behalf of electric power utilities.
Mining and Environmental Law
Assistance to companies in obtaining environmental licenses, execution of due diligences aimed at identifying regulatory and environmental risks of mining enterprises. Conduction of administrative proceedings before the ANM. Action in legal proceedings of environmental nature.
Commercial and Infrastructure Dispute Resolution
Drafting of legal opinions, representation of national and international parties in negotiation, conciliation, mediation, arbitration and dispute boards. Drafting and review of tailor-made arbitration clauses, preparation and elaboration of litigation strategy in strategic procedures. Exequatur procedures foreign judgments.
Government and Institutional Relations
Crisis Management
Barral Parente Pinheiro Advogados has extensive experience in institutional and political crisis management, assisting in the elaboration and strategic execution of damage control and responsive actions.
Planning and
Strategic Actions
Through active monitoring, preparation of materials, and verification of behind-the-scenes information, Barral Parente Pinheiro offers its clients useful and strategic information that allows them to mitigate damages and be prepared to make decisions. Such services include:
- Active monitoring of legislative rules and projects;
- Monitoring of official gazettes and authorities' agendas;
- Analysis and mapping of risks and stakeholders;
Advocacy
Elaboration of claims and political engagement actions on behalf of companies and entities with federal, state, and municipal authorities.
Business Law
Corporate Law
Legal advice to corporations and investment funds in M&As, corporate reformulation, commercial contracts, acting both in the advisory sphere and in litigation of corporate nature in lawsuits or out-of-court procedures, such as negotiation, mediation, and corporate arbitrations, representing minority or controlling shareholders.
Competition Law
Barral Parente Pinheiro supports its clients on competition law matters, preparing legal opinions on the competitional impacts of corporate transactions, as well as representing companies and individuals in economic concentration and administrative proceedings before the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) and in judicial proceedings related to competition matters.
Insolvency and
Turnaround of Companies
We represent domestic and foreign creditors in judicial reorganization and bankruptcy proceedings. Furthermore, based on the experience of our members and consultants, we assist companies in corporate restructuring processes, crisis management, financial restructuring of debts, management for performance improvement, raising of financing and investments for expansions and new projects.
