CORPORATE LAW MEET OUR PROFESSIONALS With the mission of offering legal security to the business activity, Marcelo Tostes Advogados has vast experience and tradition in advising for the opening of any type of business partnership, including complex transactions, in the most varied economic sectors and contingency situations, such as changes in control and participation, management…
STARTUPS MARCELO TOSTES LAW FIRM knows the specificities of innovative businesses and the corporate, tax, labor, and intellectual property challenges faced by startups. We are familiar with these companies’ language, their business model validation methods, and the dynamics of newly-formed teams. We know what lean, pitch, MVP, BMC, acceleration, seed money, and venture capital mean…
REGULATORY Our Public and Regulatory Law team advises national and international companies in the most varied industry sectors. We have extensive experience in litigation before all administrative courts in Brazil. The Public and Regulatory Law team has solid experience and is qualified to conduct advisory and contentious cases, advising companies and private entities in their…
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY The Intellectual Property law team is made up of lawyers, engineers, consultants, and technicians with specialization in brands, patents, industrial drawing, scientific, literary, and artistic works, computer software, and more. Our services include: Antipiracy measures and parallel legal importation. Litigation. Extrajudicial. Feasibility studies on registration in Brazil and abroad. Registration in Brazil and…
FINANCIAL Since its founding, Marcelo Tostes Advogados has advised the entry and operation of financial institutions in Brazil, offering effective and intelligent legal solutions to support clients and institutions in structuring local and international financial transactions, formatting new businesses, solving regulatory issues and litigation, in the preparation and negotiation of contracts, among other topics. This…
MINING The great potential of Brazilian mineral deposits places the country in a prominent position in the global scenario, both in reserves and output. Despite the importance of this basic commodity in the country’s export business, the industry has faced challenges due to the very nature of mining activity, which requires huge investments and strict…
M&A MEET OUR PROFESSIONALS M&A are a powerful driver in the economic scenario. As complex expansion or contraction transactions involving major market players and massive amounts of money, M&A require expert legal advice, especially when one considers the existing strong regulation over the private sector in Brazil through competition defense agencies. Keeping a close watch…
COMPETITION LAW Drawing on the support and expertise of the firm’s other areas of practice, our Competition Law area provides a truly multidisciplinary and integrated service to our clients. We represent national and international companies in the most diverse matters of competition law, including the preparation and notification of concentration acts, representation in procedures, inquiries…
COMPLIANCE MEET OUR PROFESSIONALS The Brazilian anticorruption act went into effect in 2014 and placed Brazil amongst the most advanced and rigorous countries in the world when it comes to the fight against corruption. The change fostered a more mature business setting and strengthened the key role played by corporate compliance programs. With a multidisciplinary,…
ENVIRONMENTAL MEET OUR PROFESSIONALS Taking a preemptive approach as a beacon in our practice, MARCELO TOSTES LAW FIRM makes available a multidisciplinary team to address any environmental issue specific to each client’s field of operation. We aim for legal environmental compliance and optimal production processes to prevent or mitigate possible environmental impacts. We act before…