The Office
The origin of the law firm goes back nearly 100 (one hundred) years ago, when Lawyers Pimentel Duarte and Fortunato Azulay founded, in 1937, their Law Firm. We are their successors. Founded in 1992, the Law Firm Pessôa, Piquet e Figueiredo, today with 30 (thirty) years of existence, is formed by professionals with a vast experience in litigation and business law and with a strong professional performance in some of the main capital cities in the country.

Our team is formed with professionals from renowned Law Schools and has strong performance in Public and Private Law, with a multidisciplinary view, providing the articulate formation of more agile, creative, and efficient strategies in the solution of conflicts. Currently, a team of lawyers and an experienced consultant share the mission of forming the legal thesis with ethics, agility, and efficiency.

At least two senior partners and one of our lawyers have a Master’s Degree from North American universities, in in-person programs of one or more years, in addition to courses in training programs in the American Legal System. Yale Law School, Pennsylvania Law School, Minnesota Law School.

The origin of the partnership comes from the professional and the personal relation of over 25 (twenty-five) years and joints the professionals after which the law firm is named, whom other colleagues joined, all mentioned in their curricula.

With offices in the main cities in Brazil, the Law Firm is positioned in strategic locations, which allows the service to the clients in most of the national territory, with supervision and monitoring by the founding partners in all stages of the works performed.

Consultive View, Legal Strategy, and search for Settlements.

It is based on the wisdom to solve disputes and conflicts, with the knowledge and the experience of its lawyers, that the team in the office has been achieving successful results in the defense of the cases in which it performs. PPF also has a specialized team in legal areas including, business law, labor law, tax law, estate planning, and family law.

This internal organization is one of the pillars of the reputation achieved by the law firm in the analysis and solution of relevant conflicts in the Brazilian legal scenario.

Clients’ Profile

Among the most representative clients are those representing the following economic sectors: banks, mining, energy, industrial and medicine gases, insurance and reinsurance, food, industrial production, sugar and alcohol, real estate developments, oil and gas, shopping centers, and paper and cellulose. The clients include large and medium-sized companies, both national and foreign.

Representative Projects

Among the most representative projects in which the Law Firm has been involved in the last years, we may highlight the following:

It has defended, with absolute success, the Brazilian subsidiary and the foreign parent company of the 2nd biggest bank in the world, in actions whose total amounts exceed U$ 1,000,000,000.00 (one billion dollars);
It has participated in the selling of a company in the oil and gas sector to a foreign company for R$ 1,700,000,000.00 (one billion and seven hundred million reais);
It has assisted the project of creation of an alcohol production plant in the North of the State of Rio de Janeiro, having performed in the purchase of equipment in an amount exceeding R$ 50,000,000.00 (fifty million reais) and in loans in an amount exceeding R$ 120,000,000.00 (one hundred and twenty million reais);
It has performed in the loan granted by a foreign bank to one of the biggest oil companies in Brazil, in an amount exceeding R$ 600,000,000.00 (six hundred million reais);
It has built the loan structure granted by a foreign bank to the biggest Brazilian company in the sector of sugar and alcohol in an amount exceeding R$ 200,000,000.00 (two hundred million reais);
It has participated in the purchase, representing a big Indian group, of Brazilian electrical engines manufactured in the interior of São Paulo;
It has performed in the selling of two of the biggest metallurgic companies in Brazil to a big Pension Fund;
It has built the structure of one of the biggest American companies established in the Brazil, in the restructuring of all its department of labor law;
It assists the world leader in plastic compost processing and biggest world manufacturer of plastic containers in all its operations in Brazil;
It coordinates several real estate projects for the second biggest mining company in Brazil;
It represents several American Funds in the acquisition of assets and credits in Brazil;
It assists an urban development company in the area of Macaé.
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Av. Atlântica, 1130 - 8º andar - Copacabana
Rio de Janeiro - RJ - CEP: 22021-000
+55 21 2509 2886
+55 21 2232 0310
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