Agribusiness

With a focused and highly specialized team in Agribusiness Law, we offer sophisticated and personalized legal advice to clients throughout the Agribusiness Supply Chain (CAI). Our team is recognized by the leading national and international agribusiness players for its innovative approach in complex operations, contracts, and business models related to agribusiness production, commercialization, and financing, with the goal of seizing opportunities, protecting assets, and mitigating risks.

Our advisory services connect producers, agribusiness cooperatives, and trading companies, integrating into the business dynamics within the financial and capital markets. We understand the functioning of each segment’s systems and accurately reflect the legal instruments that link economic agents in the commercial, financial, corporate, tax, rural real estate, and environmental contexts.

Main Services:

• Commercial operations and partnerships, barter transactions, joint venture structuring, and formalization of operational agreements
• Analysis and structuring of operations with agribusiness-related credit instruments (CPR, CIR, PRA, CDA/WA, CDCA, LCA, and CRA)
• Formalization of personal and real guarantees, issuance of green bonds, and follow-up on the certification process
• Establishment of Credit Rights Investment Funds (FIDC), Private Equity Funds (FIP), Real Estate Investment Funds (FII), and Agribusiness Chain Investment Funds (FIAGRO)
• Specific legal opinions and representation before regulatory bodies (CVM, BACEN, and SUSEP)
• Negotiation and formalization of business contracts within agribusiness supply chains
• Drafting of legal opinions on the economic-financial balance of contracts and non-performance of contractual obligations in agribusiness markets
• Advisory on matters related to agricultural defense and administrative and judicial self-regulation
• Advisory on damage insurance, especially rural insurance, contractual obligations insurance, and administrative liability insurance
• Assistance in export and import operations, foreign exchange procedures, and customs regime. Analysis of trade barriers to market access
• Regulatory consulting for the approval and registration of agricultural products and inputs in the Biotechnology area, monitoring of procedures with supervisory bodies, and obtaining operating authorizations for regulated activities
• Advisory on commercial and financial operations involving rural properties, follow-up on land and environmental regularization
• Prevention and resolution of civil and commercial disputes in agribusiness and participation in arbitration of contractual interest conflicts
• Credit recovery. Advisory on judicial recoveries