We understand Brazilian business having been active in the country for over 150 years.

Today, we combine our international experience with our understanding of Brazilian companies to help our Brazilian clients invest abroad, finance infrastructure projects and in complex international arbitration disputes. We also advise international companies investing in or exiting Brazil and in high-profile arbitration disputes in Brazil.

Our international Brazil group includes 30 partners and 26 associates from all of our key practice areas across Europe, US, MENA and Asia. Many of the group members speak Portuguese and some are Brazilian qualified lawyers.

We offer our clients an integrated team by working hand in hand with local Brazilian law firms. Because we work regularly together around the world and have deep relationships with the best Brazilian law firms, we are uniquely placed to recommend the best local lawyer for each transaction or dispute. Our local relationships are further strengthened through our secondment programmes where lawyers from the leading Brazilian law firms work with us for up to a year in our international Freshfields offices.

Awards/league tables

Band 1 for International Arbitration in Latin America by Chambers Global

Top of Mergermarket M&A league tables 2007-2010 for inbound M&A into Brazil

'...Freshfields guided us well beyond strictly legal matters, helping us to make strategic and commercial decisions and balancing those with the legal and risk implications – everything I believe lawyers should be but unfortunately very few are. Freshfields has a very rare concentration of such types'

Andre Covre, CFO Ultrapar

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