At Finocchio & Ustra Advogados, we monitor our clients’ day-to-day activities through our Corporate and Disputes practice by carrying out routine corporate activities and providing advice on compliance with legal and governance obligations, in addition to providing a strategic report to their local team and their headquarters overseas. It is part of our mission to participate in shareholders’, partners’ and board of directors’ meetings, and to work on keeping corporate books.

Our practice area provides advice on all types of companies, including limited liability companies (limitadas), (publicly- or privately-held) corporations, limited partnerships (sociedade em cota de participação), associations and foundations.

Together with the labor and tax practice areas, we work on structuring and implementing incentive plans for executives and stock options.

In times of corporate stress, we act before any legal action is taken to identify strengths and mitigate vulnerabilities of our clients and work with the aim of achieving or exceeding our client’s goals in the shortest possible time. We are dedicated to mapping the corporate scenario by investigating the facts, verifying alternatives, working with multidisciplinary teams to ensure our best performance for our client. We understand that being prepared is the key to success in corporate litigation.

 

Among the main areas of activity, the following stand out:

Corporate Routines

  • Organization of companies controlled either nationally or internationally, as well as cooperatives, associations and foundations;
  • Consulting and management of routine corporate and governance issues, including participation in shareholders’ and partners’ meetings, control of expiration of mandates and powers of attorney, review and updating of corporate books;
  • Structuring and implementing long-term incentive plans and stock options.

     

    Disputes

  • Advocate for the rights of shareholders and partners in shareholders’ and partners’ meetings;
  •  Preparation of an opinion listing the rights of the partners;
  • Construction, together with the client, of a strategy for conducting corporate routines in times of litigation involving minority or majority shareholders;
  •  Negotiation with other partners for the purpose of any withdrawal of partners;
  • Assistance in the removal and expelling of partners;
  • Implementation of partial or total dissolution of a company;
  • Dismissal of managers;
  • Retrieval of filed corporate resolutions.

Partners and Area Coordinators

Partner | FELIPE LOPES DE FARIA CERVONE
Partner | ANDREA OMETTO BITTAR TINCANI
Head | RACHEL CERQUEIRA SALVADOR MARQUES