Areas of Performance

We elaborate complaint briefs, pleas and petitions for actions in the judicial and administrative spheres in all states of the country. We also are specialized in the advising of any kind of franchising enterprise issues and also distribution, since the start-up of the business and managing to surmount every obstacle that comes its way before the State Courts, Federal Regional Courts of all the states of the country and before the Superior Courts in Brasilia.

We are specialized in legal advisory from the start-up of companies, fusions and acquisitions and also in the procedures of judicial recovery of companies with detailed analysis of the involved risks. Elaboration of contracts related to the commercial activities and guarantees of commercial nature, bringing the desired legal security into these procedures.

Pioneer in this segment, Souza Guerra Advogados does advisory consultancy to a diverse group of Unions bringing to this professional category and its members, the security of fully experienced lawyers performing with agility, promptness and rapid answers in the solution of conflicts and the defense of the prerogatives of each professional category. Main activities:

• Elaboration of notions and petitions for acquisitions and acts of contract.
• Implementation, follow-up and execution of procedures of active debt, Courts of Ethics and Discipline, as well as in electoral processes.
• Bringing suit of collective agreements, pertinent mandamus and other actions necessary for the good administration and defense of interests of each professional category.
• Elaboration of administrative defense, accomplishment of hearings and representation before the Federal, State Public prosecution service and before the Work and Accounts courts of all Brazilian states and the Union.

We represent our customers in administrative procedures before agencies of consumer rights. We also give advice to companies in litigations of high complexity, or customers with great volume of action. The Souza Guerra Advogados also acts undertaking efforts so that its customers are apt to prevent conflicts. Therefore we develop preventive strategies for companies, diminishing risks of the filling of a suit of demands in such a way large-scale, as well as to its customers with lesser number of processes. We elaborate and we analyze contracts, we carry through consultancy in marketing and we evaluate diverse materials for the delivery of products and services, searching to adjust them into the standards of the Consumer Rights Code.

We give legal advisory consultancy to political parties and candidates in all aspects.

We advise companies in labour questions with all its scopes. We examine and we elaborate employment contracts, collective or individual, also of foreigners. We carry through sponsorship in legal action of labour claims, also in the higher stages of appeal. During companies audit we identify procedural fragilities in the practical side of Human Resources and/or the labour law actions. We examine related substance and the working succession and recovery of companies. We carry through working agreements and negotiations with Unions, creating (and revising) codes of behaviour, norms of remuneration and rules of security.

We elaborate and we take actions for acquisitions and contracts on the basis of the Law 8.666/93. We implement and we follow the execution of the procedures of active debt, courts of ethics and elections.

We represent unions before the Federal, State Public prosecution service, the Labour and Court of Accounts of the States and the Union.

We participate in negotiations of purchase and sales of residential, commercial and industrial properties. We examine questions involving commercial and residential contracts, land divisions, incorporations, leases, real estate locations and the consequences and implications of the negotiations for our client in all aspects.

The Office is fully apt to give aid to all kinds of companies in the reduction of tax burden and understanding of uncountable norms and fiscal regulation. In this constant effort the Souza Guerra Advogados has been greatly successful in the following activities:

• Administrative and judicial litigation actions
• Advisory consultancy in programs of refinancing of tax, fiscal debits
• Advisory consultancy of legal, fiscal and tax issues
• Tax returns
• Verification of fiscal liabilities
• Administrative and judicial defenses
• Elaboration of notions and petitions