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Recife, Brasilia, Goiânia, Belo Horizonte, Vitória, Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro38 lawyersFounded 1967

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Firm overview: Azevedo Sette was recognized as the fourth most popular law firm in Latin America in 2024. Rankings LACCA’s Who Represents the biggest companies in Latin America and Who Represents the biggest banks in Latin America. Founded in 1967, Azevedo Sette Advogados is known and recognised for providing clients with personalised assistance and offering effective and customised legal solutions in a wide range of practices encompassed under business law (full service) in connection with client consulting and litigation needs, including legal and tax consulting, legal opinions, and legal sponsorship and representation in administrative and judicial proceedings. The firm’s reputation is a product of more than five decades of experience in the delivery of services to domestic and multinational companies, financial institutions, investors, and investment and pension funds. Azevedo Sette Advogados currently operates out of five regional offices located in the cities of São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and Recife. The firm is also supported by an extensive network of corresponding firms in South America, North America, Europe and Asia. The firm has a market-leading team, formed by professionals with vast experience. With a long track record of middle-market and large deals closed, Azevedo Sette has been one of the most active M&A firms in Brazil for the last 45 years and the leading force in driving public-private partnerships (PPP) in Brazil. Azevedo Sette’s experience has made the firm one of the most widely recognised and qualified full-service law firms in Brazil. Awards and recognitions: Azevedo Sette Advogados and its team are constantly being recognised as leaders in Brazil in multiple areas of law, in particular in mergers and acquisitions, contracts, projects and infrastructure, civil litigation and arbitration, compliance and white-collar, environmental, consumer law, mining, labour and employment, tax law, insurance, real estate, international trade law, TMT, among others, with numerous citations related to the quality and excellence of its services and professionals. Azevedo Sette Advogados is listed constantly in the mergers and acquisitions rankings of leading publications, including Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Mergermarket, and Merril DataSite as one of Brazilian law firm with the highest volume of merger and acquisition deals. For four consecutive years, the Chambers HNW (High Net Worth) guide recognised Azevedo Sette Advogados and its professionals as the best reference in private wealth management practice in Brazil. The guide highlighted the work of Azevedo Sette assisting clients with matters arising from closely held business ventures and legal advice to investors on succession planning and tax planning. ### Languages - Portuguese - English - German - Français - Italian - Spanish - Korean - Japanese - Mandarim ### Memberships - FLI - LNI International ### Staffing Figures - 45 Number of partners - 300 Number of lawyers - 211 Number of fee-earners

Office locations

Recife

Recife

Azevedo Sette Advogados Av. Gov. Agamenon Magalhães, 4575 4° Andar, Bairro Paissandu Recife Pe 50070-160 Recife Brazil

Brasilia

Brasilia

Azevedo Sette Advogados Setor Comercial Sul, Quadra 01, Bloco H Edificio Morro Vernelho, 14 Andar Brasilia Df 70399-900 Brasilia Brazil

Goiânia

Goiânia

Azevedo Sette Advogados Rua 10, 250, Conjunto 507 Edifício Trade Center, Setor Oeste Goiânia Go 74120-020 Goiânia Brazil

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

Azevedo Sette Advogados Rua Paraiba, 1000 Rua Paraíba, 1000, Térreo Belo Horizonte Mg 30130-145 Belo Horizonte Brazil

Vitória

Vitória

Azevedo Sette Advogados Av. Nossa Senhora Da Penha, 1495 Ed. Corporate Center, Sala 909 Vitória Es 29056-905 Vitória Brazil

Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo

Azevedo Sette Advogados Avenida Juscelino Kubitschek, 1327 – 11th Floor São Paulo - Sp

Rio De Janeiro

Rio De Janeiro

Azevedo Sette Advogados Avenida Rio Branco, 80 8° Andar – Centro Rio De Janeiro Rj 20040-070 Rio De Janeiro Brazil

Practice areas

Mergers & AcquisitionsCorporate & CommercialLitigation & ArbitrationTaxLabor & EmploymentProjects, Infrastructure & Public-Private PartnershipsCompliance & White-Collar CrimeEnvironmental LawMiningReal EstateTechnology, Media & TelecommunicationsInternational Trade

Lawyers in this office

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Alessandra Lima Ganz

Ganz is partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Real Estate practice in São Paulo office · Real Estate

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Alessandra Martins de Souza

Souza is a partner in the Capital Market, Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions practice in São Paulo office. With almost 20 years of experience, she has successfully assisted with complex mergers and acquisitions, corporate demands and succession and equity planning in our office. · Corporate / M&A

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Ana Paula Terra Caldeira

Caldeira is partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Corporate practice in Belo Horizonte office. She draws upon more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments, and corporate matters, especially to Mining and Technology sectors. · Corporate / M&A

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André de Godoy Fernandes

Fernandes is partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Corporate practice in São Paulo office. He draws upon more than 25 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, foreign investments, contracts and corporate matters, especially to health and technology sectors · Corporate / M&A

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Bruna Bouissou

Bouissou is partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Infrastructure practice in Belo Horizonte. She draws upon more than 15 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions in concessions, public private partnerships, administrative law, regulatory law, privatizations, finance, infrastructure projects, contracts and corporate law. · Infrastructure

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Bruno Felippe Almeida

Almeida is partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Tax practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 10 years’ experience in Tax Consulting, Planning and Corporate Law assisting clients in strategic tax matters. · Tax

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Danielle Chipranski Cavalcante

Cavalcante is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Litigation and Arbitration practice in São Paulo office. She draws upon more than 15 years’ experience representing clients in strategic litigations & arbitrations in civil and TMT segments. · Litigation

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Eduardo Monteiro

Monteiro is partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Corporate practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 15 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, succession planning, debt restructuring and contracts. · Corporate / M&A

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Eleonora Santiago Carneiro Quadros

Santiago is partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Corporate practice in Belo Horizonte office. She draws upon more than 15 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, foreign investments, and corporate matters. · Corporate / M&A

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Felipe Moraes

Moraes is partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados’s in Civil Litigation and Arbitration practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 10 years of experience in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution, having participated in arbitration procedures and business mediations involving infrastructure, construction, energy, PPP's and concessions contracts, and business or corporate disputes. · Arbitration

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Fernando Azevedo Sette

Sette is senior partner and head of Corporate M&A and High Net Worth (HNW) practices at Azevedo Sette Advogados. He draws upon more than 25 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving commercial and financial contracts, foreign investments, mergers and acquisitions and succession planning matters, especially to Mining, Construction and Engineering sector. · Corporate / M&A

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Frederico Bopp Dieterich KC

Dieterich is partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Infrastructure practice in Belo Horizonte. He draws upon more than 25 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving regulatory and administrative law, infrastructure projects and PPPs, project finance, banking and capital markets. · Infrastructure

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Frederico da Fonseca Silva

Fonseca is consultant in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Tax practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving transfer pricing, accounting, corporate, foreign capital, and due diligence. · Tax

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Gabriela Salazar Silva Pinto

Gabriela is partner in the Mining and Natural Resources practice at the Belo Horizonte office. · Mining

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Glaucia Ferreira

Ferreira is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Compliance practice in São Paulo office. She draws upon more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving compliance, investigations and white-collar, corporate, contracts, and mergers and acquisitions matters. · Compliance

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Gustavo Magalhães Assis

Assis is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Labor practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 15 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving employee, labor relations, and social security matters. · Labor & Employment

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Henrique Ferreira Antonelli

Antonelli is partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Real Estate practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 10 years’ experience assisting clients in real estate and contracts matters as development of projects, allotments, due diligences and project finance. · Real Estate

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Isabel Franco

Franco is a senior partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Compliance practice in our São Paulo office. She draws upon more than 20 years’ experience in all areas of compliance, from preparing full-fledged compliance programs, to trainings, investigations, risk assessments, assistance with whistleblowers, among others. · Compliance

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João Capanema

Capanema is partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Litigation and Arbitration practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 25 years’ experience representing clients in strategic litigations & arbitrations in civil, competition, environmental, intellectual property, mining, and real estate matters, specially to insurance, healthcare and TMT sectors. · Litigation

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João Paulo Santarosa de Araujo Ayres

João Paulo is partner at Belo Horizonte’s office Tax practice. · Tax Litigation

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Juliana Petrella Hansen

Hansen is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Labor practice in São Paulo office. She draws upon more than 15 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving employee, labor relations, and social security matters. · Employment & Labor

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Leandra Guimarães

Guimarães is partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Tax and Planning in Belo Horizonte office. She draws upon more than 25 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving tax and corporate law. · Tax

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Leila Azevedo Sette

Sette is partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Labor practice in Belo Horizonte office. She draws upon more than 45 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving in Labor, Social Security, and Corporate matters. · Labor

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Leonardo Farinha Goulart

Goulart is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Litigation and Arbitration practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 10 years’ experience representing clients in strategic litigations & arbitrations in civil, competition, environmental, intellectual property, mining, and real estate matters, specially to automotive, mining and TMT segments. · Litigation

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Leonardo P. Lamego

Lamego is partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Environmental and Mining practices. He draws upon more than 18 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving Environmental and Mining matters as environmental permits, legal auditing, compliance, due diligence and litigation in environmental matters, defense of clients' interests in civil investigation and negotiations with public prosecutor office. · Environmental

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Luanna Vieira de Lima Costa

Costa is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Labor practice in Belo Horizonte office. She draws upon more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions in corporate, labor and social security matters. · Labor & Employment

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Lucas Bianchini

Lucas is a partner at Azevedo Sette Advogados, in São Paulo, where he practices compliance and anticorruption, international trade/WTO, antitrust and competition law. He has more than 10 years’ of experience advising clients in complex domestic and international projects involving international trade, economic law and antitrust, compliance and anti-corruption matters. · Compliance & Anti-Corruption

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Luis Ricardo Miraglia

Miraglia is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Corporate M&A practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving commercial contracts, foreign investments, mergers and acquisitions, specially to Energy, and Mining sectors. · Corporate / M&A

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Luiz A. Sette KC

Sette is senior partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Corporate M&A practice in São Paulo office. He draws upon more than 25 years’ extensive experience in complex transactions involving commercial contracts, foreign investments, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property matters to companies, domestic and foreign investment funds, and shareholders. · Corporate / M&A

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Luiz Eduardo Salles

Salles is a partner and the head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ International Trade and Competition and Antitrust practices, based in São Paulo. He draws upon more than 15 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving international trade, economic law and antitrust, compliance and anti-corruption matters. · International Trade

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Marcelo Padilha Cabral

Cabral is partner and head in Recife office. He draws upon more than 15 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, corporate, and real estate matters. · Corporate / M&A

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Marcos Augusto Leonardo Ribeiro

Ribeiro is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Litigation practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon 20 years’ experience representing clients in strategic Litigation and Arbitration in Civil, Corporate, and Intellectual Property matters, specially to Construction and Engineering, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Insurance, Social Security and Health Care, Telecommunication, Internet, IT, and Retail segments. · Litigation

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Natália Meirelles Barros

Natália is partner in the Corporate M&A practice at the Belo Horizonte’s office. · Corporate / M&A

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Ordélio Azevedo Sette

Sette is a founding partner of Azevedo Sette Advogados. He draws upon more than 50 years’ experience in complex and strategic matters in compliance, anti-corruption, international and commercial negotiation, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, project finance and privatization. · Corporate / M&A

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Rafael Tavares Bassoli

Bassoli is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Corporate and HNW practices in São Paulo office. He draws upon more than 10 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving corporate and mergers and acquisitions, succession planning, and contracts. · Corporate / M&A

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Ricardo Azevedo Sette

Sette is senior partner and head of Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Litigation and Arbitration practice in São Paulo office. He draws upon more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving litigation & arbitration practices. · Litigation

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Roberto Mariano de Oliveira Soares

Soares is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Litigation and Arbitration practice in Brasília and Goiânia offices. He draws upon more than 10 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving litigation & arbitration, real estate and intellectual property matters. · Litigation

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Roberto Ribas Wilson

Ribas is partner in Azevedo Sette Advogados’ Corporate M&A practice in Belo Horizonte office. He draws upon more than 20 years’ experience advising clients in complex transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, contracts and corporate matters. · Corporate / M&A