VALUES Commitment, Professionalism, Transparency, Ethics, and Efficiency. MISSION To provide legal services according to these values and offer strategic and customized solutions to the client s business, aimed at establishing a lasting relationship that aggregates value to the company and brings effective results.
The law firm AAA Albino Advogados Associados, founded in 1990, stands out for its customized legal services that fulfill the needs of each client. Such flexibility helps the clients with achieving their objectives, irrespective of size or line of business. AAA is committed to act with commitment, professionalism, ethics, and transparency, choosing always the most efficient and economical solutions for the specific business of each client. Working as a legal advisor, in preventive and ligation practice, the law firm offers strategic customized solutions in all legal practice areas. By means of a modern and integrated system of management and services, the law firm makes available to all clients, at any time, the complete legal support of an entire professional team. AAA adheres to innovative, dynamic, effective, and expeditious legal practice focused on results. This model ensures more complete and efficient services with an excellent cost-benefit relation. In addition to the traditional areas, AAA responds to new social and economic trends and their reflections on legal practice, to stand out in segments where professional performance depends on expertise and specific technical knowledge such as, for instance, within the scope of the antitrust, capital market, and environment areas, and in structuring operations, tenders and infrastructure projects joining public and private ventures, such as the so-called Parceria Público-Privada PPP.
ANTITRUST Actions required by the Brazilian antitrust enforcement agencies (Sistema Brasileiro de Defesa da Concorrência CADE, Secretaria de Direito Econômico SDE and Secretaria de Acompanhamento Econômico SEAE). ACQUISITIONS, SPLIT-UPS, CONSOLIDATIONS, AND MERGERS Assistance during all the phases of the process of acquiring and disposing of companies, in particular by preparing due diligences, structuring operations, drafting and negotiating contracts. BUSINESS / CIVIL Contracts and consultancy in the commercial area for deals between companies or individuals. CONSUMER S RIGHTS Preventive consultancy and follow-up of administrative and court proceedings involving relations with the consumer. REAL ESTATE ENTERPRISES AND CONTRACTS Drafting contracts and assisting in structuring real estate enterprises, such as shopping malls, real estate developments, hotel enterprises, residential and commercial condominiums. INTERNET / E-COMMERCE Structuring, developing, and carrying out new businesses by means of innovating platforms and systems. JOINT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES (PARCERIAS PÚBLICO- PRIVADAS PPP) / TENDERS Advisory services aimed at developing projects that make feasible the execution of contracts under Joint Public and Private Enterprises and Tenders. SUCCESSION PLANNING AND FAMILY OFFICE Designing succession structures, including the formation of trusts abroad. PRIVATIZATIONS AND TENDERS Advisory services to companies participating of the privatization of stateowned companies and of tenders in general. Analysis of administrative contracts.
Practice areas ADMINISTRATIVE AND COURT LITIGATION AND ARBITRATIONS Defending the client s interests in all the areas where the firm is engaged before the governmental agencies, the courts and in arbitration procedures. PROJECT FINANCE, CORPORATE FINANCE AND SECURITIZATION Designing and structuring financing operations, projects related to infrastructure, and securitization of receivables. COMMERCIAL DEFENSE Acting in investigations to impose antidumping rights, and safeguards of compensation measures. ENVIRONMENT Analysis of the regular status of activities from the legislation viewpoint, consultancy in environmental matters, defining strategies for projects and for the defense in court and administrative proceedings. FINANCIAL AND CAPITAL MARKET Designing operations focused on fund raising. Foreign financing, investment and reinvestment advisory services. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES Advisory services when setting up subsidiaries, branches, offices and representations abroad, and when doing international business. LABOR RELATIONSHIPS Prevention and corrective advising, review of labor and social security procedures, preparing documents for the defense and the action of subordinates in litigations at the Labor Courts, and filing of defenses and appeals in the administrative sphere with the Brazilian Social Security Service, the INSS, with the Labor Ministry, and with the Labor Attorney General. CORPORATE RECOVERY AND REORGANIZATION Designing and structuring corporate reorganization operations in general. TAX Tax planning for the regular activities of the companies, investment operations, new businesses, consolidations, split-ups, mergers and tax recovery. Administrative and court defenses in the litigation area.
PRODUCING HIGH TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE AND STRATEGIC VISION TO ACHIEVE THE BEST RESULTS Characteristics QUALIFICATION AND EXCELLENCE AAA has a team of professionals qualified for their technical excellence, large corporate experience and broad view of business strategies. SOLUTIONS Each case is jointly analyzed by the team specialized in the area, focused on seeking solutions that ensure the best economy and efficiency to the clients. FOLLOW-UP At all the stages, the cases are followed up by one of the partners by means of constant meetings with the team, and the client is informed regularly with consultations to the procedural information systems. PARTICIPATION The clients are involved in all the stages of the process and informed in a pro-active manner about the progress of the services with the objective of achieving the results sought for each case. ATTENTION TO THE CLIENT All the possible legal actions are discussed by the office team with the client, and the strategic decisions are made jointly, in a fully transparent manner. INFRASTRUCTURE With easy access and free parking, the law firm facilities in the cities where it is present are modern and functional, with comfortable meeting rooms and advanced telephone and technological devices to ensure the best quality of services to the clients. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SCOPE AAA acts abroad through its associated law firms with reputable technical qualification, in cooperation with local professionals.
Partners Focus on Capital Market and Infrastructure USP, 1969; master in Compared Law New York University, 1975; doctor in Economic Law, USP, 1988; professor at PUC/SP post graduation, author of books in his specialization, ex-director of CVM, member of Administration Boards of company and financial entities. Languages: English, French and Spanish Fernando Albino Focus on Corporate, Commercial, Mining, Regulatory, and Competition Law USP, 1976; master USP, 1982; author of papers in specialized magazines. Ex-director of juridical departments of multinational companies, president of Comissão de Estudos da Concorrência e Regulação Econômica (Commission on Competition and Economic Regulation Studies) of OAB/SP, member of IBRAC, member of the Editorial Board of Revista de Direito Minerário (Magazine of Mining Law). Pedro Zanotta Languages: English and Spanish Focus on Financial Market Law and Regulation; Bank, Company, and Corporate Law; and Corporate Governance and Compliance PUC-SP, 1979; specialized in Corporate Law (USP) 1980; in Accounting and Financial Management (USP) 1980; and in Business Administration (FAAP) 1981; he took part in the Program of Instruction for Lawyers in Harvard Law School and in numberless congresses and workshops in Brazil and worldwide; professor of FGV (GVLaw); ex-juridical director of banks Santander, ING, and Chase Manhattan; he is member of Legal and Compliance Committees of ABBI and of Committee of Corporate Governance of Financial Institutions and Committee of Corporate Risks of IBGC; he was president of the Legal Committee of ABBI; he was member of Juridical and Compliance Committees of FEBRABAN. Languages: English and Spanish Focus on Corporate, Real Estate, Labor Law and Civil Litigation UNICAP, 1995; post graduation, UFPE, 2001; MBA FGV/RJ, 2010. Language: English Alvaro Van Der Ley Lima Neto
Focus on Judicial, Extrajudicial Litigation, Arbitration and Real Estate Law Milton Campos College - MG, 1999; post graduation in Company Law, FGV/RJ, 2001. Idioma: English Raquel Batista de S. Franca Focus on Civil and Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Cândido Mendes University/RJ, 1997; post graduation in Economic and Company Law, FGV/SP, 2007. Idioma: English Diogo Dias Focus on Tax Law USP, 2004; specialization in Tax Law, IBET, 2006; now in mastership Financial Law, USP, 2012. Idioma: English Cesar Augusto Seijas de Andrade Focus on Administrative Law, Bids, and Public Private Partnership - PPP PUC/SP, 2003 Idioma: English Fábio Luiz Peduto Sertori
Partners Focus on Labor Law, Civil Litigation and Civil Responsibility UFF/RJ, 1974; post graduation in Environmental Management COPPE/ UFRJ, 1977; specialization in Comparative Labour Law at the University of Porto Portugal, 1985; master in Business Law, PUC/RJ, 1980; Ph.D. in Civil/Civil Liability, UERJ, 2011; professor at the University Estácio de Sá/RJ. Languages: English and Germany Valeria Abbud Jonas Spanish Desk Central University of Barcelona, 1994, PhD and Master on Commercial Law, both from the Law School of the Central University of Barcelona (UB), 1995. Member of the Barcelona Bar Association (icab) and in the process of approval for the OAB/SP (Brazilian Bar Association). Responsible for the Spanish Desk in the AAA. Antonio Ramallo Fernández Expertise: Corporate Law, Contracts, Agreements between partners, Purchase and Sale of Companies, PPPs (Public-Private Participation) and Infrastructure, Banking and Insurance, Restructuring and M&A Mergers and Acquisitions, Business and Succession Planning, and Foreign Investment. Involvement in cases of project finance and private equity, MBO, LBO and BIMBO, helping Spanish and Latin Americans customers in the defense of its interests in Brazil. Secretary of the Legal Committee of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Brazil. Professor of Commercial Law and Banking, Insurance and Securities Market of the Central University of Barcelona School of Economics. Speaker at various seminars in Spain and abroad on subjects of their specialty. Legal advisor of the Center for Innovation and Development (CIDEM) for companies in the government of Catalonia. Secretary and Director on the Boards of Directors and Legal Counsel of many Spanish companies. Collaborations usual in articles in the general press. Languages : Portuguese, Spanish, English and Catalan.
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