ASSIS E MENDES, with branches in Brazil and Mexico, acts as a Strategic Law Firm.
We currently provide consultancy to clients in all Latin America on Bussiness, Contractual, Tax, Labor, Administrative and litigation areas.
With skilled professionals and multidisciplinary expertise, we are able to provide qualified services in different areas.
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Disregarding the size of the company, our team provides daily legal consultancy in the commercial, contractual, civil, tax, labor and administrative areas to companies of many different sizes and segments, with a great highlight to knowledge and management within Technology companies.
ASSIS E MENDES offers services and operates as an external legal department to companies of many different sizes and sectors, aggregating value and information to its clients' businesses. By doing that, we allow clients to obtain legal services from professionals who hold a great number of specializations at a single place.
We have as our differential the specific activities in the Business Law area, comprising consultancy and the elaboration of opinions on many different issues, contracts management, and impact analysis and consumer relation prevention. We also provide consultancy on specific issues related to the software market and to specific contracts between companies and end users, through the knowledge acquired working for companies of all sizes.
Within the consultancy area, ASSIS E MENDES' professionals are qualified to answer to and provide advice to clients in regard to legal questionings, with an emphasis to the following developed works:
• Follow-up of legal issues at the initial stage and companies' strategic legal planning, especially for those planning to start operations in Mexico or Brazil.
• Opening and closure of companies, with consultancy in relation to the obligations and burdens these acts may imply.
• Elaboration, revision and analysis of Technology, civil and consumer relation Contracts.
• Service contracts related to the implementation, development and customization of Services.
• Software licensing and distribution contracts with representatives, Partners, Distributors and other kinds of distribution and indirect sales channels.
• Tax planning for national and foreign companies.
• Corporate structuring and agreements with companies' owners and partners within the territories we operate.
• Support for participation in Public Bids.
• Patents and commercial brands registration and Intellectual Property protection.
• Support for the local application of the legislation related to Consumers.
• Evaluation of the legal procedures used by the business area and under proceedings, by identifying possible contingencies and proposing solutions to eliminate them without affecting our clients' businesses.
At the local level, we deal with the relationship between branch offices and their main offices on issues related to revenue recognition (SEC), consultancy and adequacy of the North-American Sarbanes Oxley Law ("SOX"), corporate structuring and relationship with local partners.
With a view to a globalized world, we anticipate issues on technological advancements and their legal impacts as discussed in the United States and Europe, with detailed studies on similar cases for preventive adequacy and the elaboration of contracts that adhere to international practices.
In the procedural area, we represent and actively and passively defend the interests of our clients in the legal, administrative and arbitration area, by defining strategies for the best solution of the cases presented to us.
We periodically forward reports with updated information on the processes, which are generated through a computer system, whose password may be alternatively furnished for clients' access.
In that area, our main operational areas are:
• Business Law - corporate dissolution, bankruptcy and judicial recovery, etc.
• Administrative Law and Public Bids - administrative appeals and defenses, injunctions, cause of action to annul and other measures.
• Civil Law - collections and execution, possession lawsuits and real estate laws (lease renewal, evictions and condominiums), intellectual property, civil responsibility, successions and family matters, etc.
• Consumer Law - we work on indemnification lawsuits and on causes any other nature, usually associated to vices found in products and/or services, as well as frauds and advertising/marketing.
• Labor Law - defense during individual, collective and bulk lawsuits.
• Fiscal Law - defense against fiscal executions and other measures against the public treasury.
ASSIS E MENDES counts on an experienced team to manage lawsuit portfolios of great volumes and with pending lawsuits in the entire Brazilian territory, with a highlighted performance in terms of Consumer Law. We elaborate risk analysis on judicial liabilities, by structuring preventive strategies, and we also identify and present forms to reduce the litigation focuses.
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