or GFA, is a law firm organized to serve the market segment of businessmen, families and senior executives, in relation to their companies, wealth and other businesses, and anyone else with an "owner's mentality".
Our vision was that this market segment is very relevant, but it is not always well served by the Brazilian law firms, which, in the last decades, have turned themselves to serve the massive corporate demands (of legal departments and companies' other internal areas), following the trend to grow significantly in the number of lawyers and to become over-specialized.
Our mission is, by focusing on serving this market segment, to contribute, decisively, from the standpoint of legal advisory, to establish and develop companies, wealth and other businesses to be profitable and long-lasting.
Our cause is, by accomplishing our mission, to enable that more jobs, income and other opportunities are generated over time, thus contributing to the economic and social development of Brazil.
Since March, 2004, we have been helping our clients to write their success stories.
Next pageWe are concentrated on serving anyone with an "owner's mentality".
As we are focused on clients with an "owner's mentality", we are also sought after by management companies of investment funds and similar entities.
Back Next pageA family negotiates a joint venture between its company and another company in the same economic segment and hires GFA to represent it in connection with the operation.
The joint-venture established, the family decides to organize the operations of the joint venture company and requests GFA to assist it, especially from a tax and contractual standpoint. Following such organization, the family hires GFA to review the legal organization of the operations of its own company.
The family then decides to restructure its wealth with respect to real estate properties and other assets, with the main purpose of minimizing the tax impact, in view of the family's long-term goals, and asks GFA to advise it in connection with such restructuring.
The family inherits new assets and appoints GFA to represent it in legal disputes with the other heirs.
We are devoted to the areas of legal practice that correspond with the main demands of the market segment that we serve
A company owned by a group of partners has a critical lawsuit filed against it and appoints GFA to defend it.
The group of partners, aiming to avoid other lawsuits of the same nature, hires GFA to review the legal organization of the operations of its company ,mainly from a contractual standpoint.
The group of partners decides to review the corporate structure of its company, considering the tax impact, succession planning and "wealth protection" , and hires GFA to advise it with respect to such review.
Our team is composed of lawyers specialized in the fields of law which correspond to the areas of legal practice to which we are devoted.
From a comprehensive standpoint, our team identifies the fields of
law to be further developed on a case-by-case basis, integrating
the fields of law whenever necessary, in order to promptly
provide the most effective solution for each case.
Our team seeks to grow more in seniority than in the
number of lawyers.
A businessman decides to raise capital from a venture capital fund and hires GFA to advise him in connection therewith. GFA sets up a corporate structure to serve as a vehicle for the venture capital investment, having in mind the future tax impact of the eventual sale of the company. GFA makes the most of the corporate structuring by using it to restructure the personal wealth of the businessman.
The businessman decides to admit a strategic partner and GFA represents him in connection therewith, negotiating the respective shareholders agreement.
A group of partners decides to review the corporate structure of its group of companies with two main goals: to optimize the existing corporate structure by reducing costs and to minimize the tax impact on the eventual sale of one or more of the companies within the group, and hires GFA to advise it. GFA makes the most of the corporate restructuring, using it to adopt succession planning for the partners and "wealth protection" for some of the companies within the group.
The group of partners decides to reorganize the operations of some of its companies so as to minimize their tax impact, and hires GFA to advise it.
The partners then decide to restructure their wealth , with respect to real estate properties, both urban and rural, financial investments, a boat and other assets, in order to minimize their tax impact, in view of the long-term goals of each partner and ask GFA advise them.
The group of partners receives a proposal to sell one of their companies and hires GFA to represent it in selling the company , using the corporate structure established for that purpose.
Legal-technical excellence, obtained as a result of the constant search to deliver high quality work, backed by exhaustive
research of the law, legal cases and doctrine.
Impeccable ethical conduct towards our clients, in compliance with the Código de Ética da Advocacia e da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil – OAB (Brazilian Bar Association) and the ethical principles of the business environments in which we practice.
It is our desire to serve our clients efficiently, quickly and at the minimum cost possible.
Absolute confidentiality with respect to the businesses and other matters advised by us.
A family decides to invest in a company and hires GFA to advise it on the transaction. GFA negotiates the family's investment in the company. Right after, GFA reviews the legal organization of the operations of the company , mainly from a tax and contractual standpoint.
The family then decides to negotiate a settlement to a law suit regarding a company's dissolution that has been ongoing for many years and asks GFA to represent it in the negotiation.
Having reached a settlement, the family decides to file a lawsuit to terminate a condominium of real estate properties , which it inherited more than 20 years before and hires GFA to represent the family. In view of the fact that the co-owners, who were still minors at the time of their inheritance, have reached full legal age, GFA "converts" the lawsuit into an out-of-court agreement , by which the condominium is terminated through the exchange of equitable parcels of the real estate properties among the co-owners.
The family appoints GFA to represent it in its most relevant lawsuits.
We define the goals of each project and consistently work to pursue the best results.
As a way to ensure the best result, we devote the best care possible to each case – "nothing can replace the expertise, but it
is the management that ensures the results".
We make everything as simple as possible.
We think and elaborate to the maximum with respect to every work before delivering the final product, so as to ensure it is correct and technically accurate.
All decisions taken by us are based solely and exclusively on the truth; in fact, the truth will always prevail, no matter the cost.
We are low profile – we have no interest in being in evidence, unless there
is a reason for doing so.
We have an endless desire to overcome ourselves and achieve our goals.
We dream big and work hard to make our dreams come true!
A group of partners desires to prepare its company for a venture capital investment or to be sold and requests GFA to review the legal organization of the operations of the company , mainly from a tax and contractual standpoint.
Even before the review of the legal organization is complete, the group of partners receives a proposal to sell its company and hires GFA to represent it in connection with the sale of the company.
Capitalized, the partners decide to invest in another business and request GFA to set up the corporate structure for the new venture. GFA makes the most of the corporate structuring by using it to adopt succession planning for the partners and "wealth protection" for the new venture.
A businessman changes the business model of his company and asks GFA to reflect this in the legal organization of the company.
Once the legal reorganization of the company is complete, the businessman decides to reorganize other critical aspects of the company , consisting mainly of the renegotiation of its most relevant contracts and the preparation of standard draft contracts, such as contracts with clients, supplier contracts and so on , and hires GFA to advise him in connection with such reorganization.
The businessman decides to admit a strategic partner and asks GFA to negotiate the partner's admission.