Areas of practice

One of the areas in which Elian Sanchez Advogados has the greatest specialization and consolidated experience is Real Estate and Construction Law, in which technical knowledge and a refined strategy in search of the most assertive solutions are the greatest differentials.

Our work consists of understanding our clients’ needs and presenting the most appropriate solution, with the aim of facilitating the achievement of their objectives and strengthening their

In the area of Business Law, Elian Sanchez Advogados focuses on finding effective solutions to guarantee the security of doing business.

Our team can provide comprehensive advice on all stages of commercial contracts of all kinds.  These include:

• Commercial contracts and service contracts in general,
• Preparation of legal opinions to advise clients on strategic decision-making;
• Preliminary contracts (memoranda of understanding, letters of intent, confidentiality and non-competition agreements);
• Contracts involving intellectual property, industrial property and information technology;
• Financial contracts involving national and international loans;
• Credit assignment and debt assumption contracts.
• Advice on the termination of contractual obligations, including out-of-court measures seeking to enforce, terminate, cancel and rescind contracts.

Succession Law is closely connected to personality rights and often involve highly sensitive matters.

Our team addresses these demands through specialized consultancy focused on conflict resolution, aiming to establish, maintain, and protect family assets.

We advise our clients on succession planning with a focus on stability, to avoid continuity crises in the management of family assets and not lose sight of the search for tax efficiency. Strategies can involve drawing up a will, setting up family holding companies or other structures.

In addition to planning, we also work with consensual or litigious inventories, and our professionals have more than 20 years’ experience in this field.

The labor practice at Elian Sanchez Advogados provides consulting services and handles disputes in the Labor Courts, as well as before the Ministry of Labor, the Labor Prosecutor’s Office and other entities engaged in union relations:

• Consulting: Advice for companies with the aim of predicting, preventing and resolving conflicts, minimizing risks and liabilities, carrying out labor audits and due diligence, analyzing and drafting employment contracts and other forms of contracting, assessing risks in specific situations and reviewing procedures to reduce risks and adapt to comply with legal obligations;

• Conflict resolution: Managing and acting strategically in labor portfolios, acting strategically in highly complex labor cases, both at first instance and in the Regional Courts and Higher Courts;
• Administrative procedures and processes: Acting strategically in inspections and administrative proceedings before the Ministry of Labor and Employment and the Public Prosecutor’s Office;
• Trade union relations: Representing clients before trade unions, negotiating, and drafting collective agreements, evaluating grievances, analyzing collective standards and resolving collective labor disputes.

In the consumer area, Elian Sanchez Advogados provides legal advice to clients on all aspects of consumer relations, including the following:

• Filing and defending consumer lawsuits;
• Advice and drafting of legal opinions on the establishment of liability, limitation periods, clauses, guarantees, rights and duties of the parties, advertising, product and service defects, application and grading of fines and damages, as well as other relevant issues on the subject.
• Drafting, reviewing and analyzing commercial policies and consumer contracts.

Our multidisciplinary Corporate Law department offers safe and effective legal solutions for complex corporate structuring. Among the activities carried out, we highlight:

• Acquisition of assets and shareholdings;
• Incorporation of all types of company, such as limited liability companies, publicly and privately held joint stock companies, and holding companies;
• Analysis, review and monitoring of corporate acts, such as general meetings, shareholders’ meetings, board meetings, organization, control and updating of corporate books, among others;
• Negotiation and drafting of shareholders’ agreements, voting agreements, stock option agreements, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), confidentiality agreements (NDAs), among others;
• Advice on planning and structuring corporate businesses and commercial projects in a wide range of segments, with an assessment of the risks involved;
• Advice on the structuring and implementation of specific and/or complex corporate restructuring and/or reorganization operations, such as mergers, spin-offs, corporate takeovers, and asset drop-downs;
• Legal advice specializing in corporate pre-litigation;
• Acting in specific and complex corporate litigation.

Elian Sanchez Advogados’ practice in Agrarian and Environmental Law stands out for its multidisciplinary approach, allowing us to craft precise and expedited solutions for rural property regularization.

With a highly qualified team that is always up to date with the various nuances of environmental legislation, we advise our clients on developing strategies to meet the legal requirements for the development of agribusiness and sustainable forestry, with a focus on mitigating the risks related to the environmental impacts of these activities.

In the administrative sphere, we work on the rectification of registrations before Real Estate Registry Offices and the regularization of rural property registrations before Incra (CCIR), the Federal Revenue Service (Rural Land Tax – ITR) and the Agriculture and Environment Secretariats (Rural Environmental Registration and Environmental Regularization Program), as well as on rural property acquisition projects and agribusiness partnerships, in conjunction with the Real Estate Law team.

In addition, Elian Sanchez Advogados has an outstanding track record in the preparation of audits, legal opinions and in the combative defense of our clients’ interests, both in civil investigations and in public civil actions.