Marcelo Simão Solicitors multidisciplinary team offers dynamic
and efficient services and contributes with sensitivity to the specific needs of
each client and the regulatory peculiarities of each sector, industry or type of
transaction.
Among the activities performed, may highlight:
- Consultancy on contractual issues, theoretical or addressing concrete cases, including
the preparation of legal opinions with an analysis of the applicable legislation
and regulation;
- Preparation and/or revision of drafts of any kind of contracts, including renegotiation,
novation, assignment, quittance, among other instruments;
- Guidance and monitoring in the negotiating process up to signature of contracts
(closing) including, if necessary, the representation of clients;
- Guidance and monitoring in the process of performing the contractual obligations
throughout the entire effective term, including, if necessary, the post-contract
phase, concerning issues such as warranty and confidentiality;
- Guidance and monitoring in procedures of mediation and/or arbitration involving
contract issues, collaborating with partners from the area of mediation and arbitration,
including the preparation and/or revision or documents at any phase of the proceeding;
and
- Guidance and monitoring in administrative and/or judicial proceedings involving
contract matters, in collaboration with partners from the litigation area, including
the preparation and/or revision of documents at any phase of the proceeding.
Among the contract issues we handle most often, the following stand out:
- Consultancy on the legal planning of the transaction, including clauses on cancellation,
penalties, confidentiality, among others, plus defining the means of resolving controversies
best suited to the specific needs of each client (arbitration, legal venue and applicable
legislation);
- Guidance and monitoring in the event of delay or breach of contract (default), supervening
impediment or increased burdens and other problems linked to performance of the
contract;
- Guidance and monitoring in the event of unilateral cancellation (abandonment) or
bilateral cancellation (rescission) of the contract; and
- Renegotiation, novation and assignment. Total or partial contract obligations quittance.