Practice Areas
The ZNA office's primary practice areas are Law and Tax Planning, Corporate Law, with extensive experience in joint venture operations, mergers and acquisitions, processes and reorganization and dissolution of companies, and the restructuring of family businesses. It also acts in Civil and Commercial Law, elaborating and reviewing contracts, such as international purchase and sale, technology transfer, trademarks, and patents.
Among the firm's specialties are mergers and acquisitions involving national and international companies, a performance that began in the 1980s when someone approached the office to organize negotiations between a national company and a French group. Since then, ZNA has worked on mergers in Brazil and abroad, with numerous success stories.
40
years of acting
+6
countries served
+20
collaborators
+8
assisted social projects
The office assists in the practices of Real Estate Law, and Family and Succession Law, specializing in organizing and reorganizing family businesses throughout their succession process, particularly preparing partner/shareholder agreements, internal management regulations, and code of ethics between partners/shareholders and managers.
Tax Law
Tax advice and consultancy at the federal, state, and municipal levels regarding direct and indirect taxes, including fiscal and tax review. Acts in fiscal and tax litigation, from formal consultation with the tax authorities and presentation of administrative and judicial defenses to filing legal actions, either to question the incidence of taxes or to cancel tax debts. Advice for structuring and implementing tax planning based on the activity carried out and the applicable legislation.
Contact usCorporate Law and M&A
Comprehensive advice on mergers and acquisitions through drafting of the most diverse contracts and applicable tax planning and the performance of due diligence; drafting and implementation of corporate restructurings, such as, among other operations, spin-off, merger and incorporation, and, still, the liquidation of companies; advising on the incorporation of companies, including joint ventures, through the preparation of applicable corporate acts; advice on corporate disputes, including participation in court and arbitration proceedings.
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Startups and Investments
Assistance to entrepreneurs and investors, from the conception of the business, going through fundraising rounds, to holding a liquidity event; advice to startups and scale-ups, in different sectors and stages; advice on venture capital, private equity, and corporate ventures; review and drafting of contracts, corporate structures, business operations, and investment contracts.
Contact usCivil and Commercial Law
Advice and consultancy in the civil and commercial areas; drafting of opinions; drafting and review of the most varied types of national and international business contracts; advice on civil and commercial disputes, including participation in court and arbitration proceedings.
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Succession Planning and Asset Protection
Restructuring of family businesses; development of succession planning and asset protection; drafting of shareholders and/or partners' agreements; structuring of investment vehicles.
Contact usLabor Law
Preventive and litigation advice and consulting in defense of the company, in labor lawsuits, indemnity actions resulting from workplace accidents, and public civil actions; advice with an emphasis on preventive advocacy, together with the company's Human Resources sector, aimed at clarifying routines, as well as helping with the preparation of documents; consultancy in the area of prevention of occupational accidents in line with the company's engineering and occupational medicine services.
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Real Estate Law
Development of the structuring of operations with investors and the drafting of contracts for the execution of undertakings.
Contact usPrivacy and Data Protection
Legal advice and consultation on compliance with the General Data Protection Act - LGPD; legal review of data processing procedures, policies, and procedures; training of teams on data protection; advice on drafting materials focusing on privacy, data protection, and information security issues; drafting and reviewing contracts, clauses, codes, standards, policies, and terms of use related to data processing; drafting and reviewing contracts and documents related to the engagement of service providers that collect or process personal data; legal assistance in defending interests against supervisory authorities for non-compliance with the LGPD.
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Digital Law
Preventive and litigation advice and consultancy with the delivery of legal solutions to ensure the integration of technology and legal security in the digital environment
Contact usCorporate Governance in Family Businesses
ZNA has extensive experience in the drafting of family protocols and articles of incorporation and has participated in numerous processes for the implementation of corporate governance in family businesses of various sizes and industries in Brazil and abroad.
ZNA's work includes the discussion, drafting, and/or revision of family pacts and protocols; the preparation and/or review of corporate contracts; the planning and organization of governance and management structures and processes.
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