Brazil

FIRM:

Castro, Barros, Sobral, Gomes Advogados (CBSG) is one of Brazil’s most respected law firms. With offices in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasília and Lisbon, CBSG has a broad client base, including Brazilian and multinational clients, corporations, as well as government entities, in all sectors of the economy. The firm has a long track record of advising clients in all areas of business and public law, representing them in transactional, regulatory and litigious matters.

CBSG has had an associate office in Lisbon since the 80’s, which helps in advising clients doing business in the EU and in the Portuguese speaking African countries. CBSG has well established professional relationships with firms around the globe and is also a member of regional and worldwide law firm networks.

The firm’s lawyers are qualified to render a wide range of legal services to all its clients. The quality and agility of the services rendered and the direct interaction of one or more partners with the client are characteristics cultivated by CBSG. This direct interaction enables ongoing measurement of client satisfaction with the services provided, because maintenance of high satisfaction levels is a priority of the partner in charge of managing the matters entrusted to the firm.

In helping its clients to achieve its business goals in the Brazilian market, CBSG offers the following main business law practice areas: Administrative, Infrastructure and Regulatory; Arbitration and Litigation; Aviation; Competition / Antitrust; Contracts and Corporate Transactions; Corporate Finance and Banking Transactions; Environmental;  Intellectual Property; International Trade; Labor and Social Security; Maritime; Mergers, Acquisitions and Privatizations; Oil and Gas; Tax.

CBSG offers a high quality comprehensive approach in the rendering of legal services, because its lawyers who are thoroughly proficient in each of the above listed practice areas works as a team together with the lawyers proficient in any of the other practice areas, whose expertise is demanded to help its client in finding the best business cost-effective and timely legal solutions.
 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Administrative, Infrastructure and Regulatory
• Arbitration and Litigation
• Aviation
• Competition / Antitrust
• Contracts and Corporate Transactions
• Corporate Finance and Banking Transactions
• Environmental
• Intellectual Property
• International Trade
• Labor and Social Security
• Maritime
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Privatizations
• Oil and Gas
• Tax