FINANCIAL AND BANKING MARKET

Concerning consultancy, we offer specific legal consultancy and assessment for the following:

• interpretation and application of legal and regulatory National Monetary Council (Conselho Monetário Nacional/CMN) and Central Bank of Brazil standards;
• authorization for the constitution, operation, and corporate acts of national and foreign financial institutions;
• financial institution governance, control and risk management structures;
• corporate acts and contracts in general;
• preparation and analysis of financial operations and contracts;
• audits and due diligence for regulatory compliance of products, services, operations and operating institutions (regulatory compliance);
• legal audits to measure or evaluate contingent liabilities;
• credit cooperatives; and
• prevention of money laundering;

Within the scope of administrative litigation, we defend the interests of our clients in the following:

• inspections and other supervisory actions by the Central Bank of Brazil and Securities and Exchange Commission;
• administrative sanctioning proceedings referring to the Central Bank of Brazil, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the National Financial System Resources Council;
• Special Intervention Regime;
• Special Extrajudicial Settlement Regime; 
• Temporary Special Administration Regime; 
• and negotiation and conclusion of Terms of Commitment and Administrative Agreements in Supervision Processes.

Within the scope of judicial litigation, we defend creditor companies in the following:

• extrajudicial transfer and enforcement of collateral, such as consolidation of fiduciary property;
• collection and recovery of assets;
• defense of credits, operations and contracts in legal proceedings in general;
• qualification and challenge of credits in recovery or bankruptcy processes; and
• objection to business recovery plans.