DLA Piper

DLA Piper’s Brazil office is located in Sao Paulo. The team focuses on navigating complex international cross-border legal and business landscapes, providing comprehensive and seamless international legal and business solutions. The office acts as a foreign legal consulting practice operating under US and New York law to serve Brazilian and international companies with cross-border matters, providing legal advice on a wide range of issues throughout the Americas and around the world. DLA Piper’s global network of offices provides clients with integrated legal services across borders. They focus on building long-term relationships with their clients, understanding their business objectives, and providing strategic legal advice to help them succeed in a rapidly changing and competitive global marketplace.

The team in Brazil is multilingual and multicultural, representing clients in local and cross-border matters, including mergers and acquisitions, banking, project finance, capital markets, financing, regulatory compliance, antitrust, litigation, and other practice areas. Its lawyers bring more than 30 years of experience, many of them native Brazilians, with vast personal networks built up over decades in business with first-hand knowledge of the legal and political complexities of Brazil and Latin America. 

Its US-Brazilian team is part of the US-Latin American practice. They regularly work with lawyers and business professionals from across the firm’s vast global footprint in jurisdictions around the world. Its lawyers have won numerous awards, earning them individual and team recognition from key publications such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Latinvex, LexLatin, Latin Lawyer, and many others.

The team in Brazil regularly collaborates with several key organizations, including the Brazil Foundation, the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce in New York, the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce in Miami, and many others in the country and throughout the Americas and the world.