Brazil

DLA Piper’s office in Brazil is based in São Paulo. The office acts as a foreign legal consultancy practice working under U.S. and New York state laws to serve Brazilian and international companies with cross-border matters, providing legal counsel on a wide range of matters throughout the Americas, and the globe. DLA Piper's global network of offices provides clients with integrated legal services across borders. They focus on building long-term relationships with their clients, understanding their business goals, and providing strategic legal advice to help them succeed in a rapidly changing and competitive global marketplace.

Navigating complex international cross-border legal and business landscapes is the focus of the team, providing seamless, comprehensive international legal and business solutions. The team in Brazil is multilingual and multicultural, representing clients on local and cross-border matters, including mergers and acquisitions, banking, project financing, capital markets, financings, compliance, antitrust, disputes, and other practice areas. The attorneys bring over 30 years of experience, many natives to Brazil, with vast personal networks built over decades in business with first-hand knowledge of Brazil’s and Latin America’s legal and political intricacies. The lawyers and business teams are fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish, German and French, amongst other languages, focusing on years of service to clients with business matters and interests in Brazil, Latin America and worldwide.

The US-Brazilian team is part of the US-Latin America practice. DLA Piper in Latin America’s Team offers full-service business legal counsel to US and global companies with interests in and operations throughout the region.  With over 400 lawyers practicing throughout Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Puerto Rico, in addition to our US-based cross-border attorneys, our team works with clients throughout every country in Latin America and help connect Latin America to the world.

The Latin America Practice is led in the US from Miami, with our US based team of multicultural and diverse cross-border practitioners regularly acting as lead counsel on a wide range of matters across sectors in the US and Latin America.