The new border of global businesses and its local impacts on legislation and companies in the markets all over the world demand new contexts from the business legal advice, especially nowadays in Brazil. The efficiency guides the good governance in order to prevent legal and regulatory risks, to seek advice based on sustainability, reorganizations, and expansion of companies, maximization of the investor's profit, businessman and managers. Certainly, the model of legal services of the XX century was left behind, out of context and not compromised with the strategic vision of the client's being known by the low proactivity, depersonalization of attendance and high costs. On the beginning of the XXI century, OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES LAWYERS trusts its pioneering in the best practices of a new legal business service that brings value, sustainability, and innovation to the company, all this with imperative security and optimization of the business structure, resizing of debits and crisis' overcoming. 

The current historical scenario of economic crisis has been unbuilding the concept of stability of the national real estate market. The system of economic leverage used a lot by big merging companies in the past has proved to be failed considering the growing measure rates of its enterprises. The reorganization of some of the biggest players in this field points the necessity of the structures and operations to be rebuild. OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES LAWYERS based on the expertise of its professionals promotes the structuring of various types of real estate mergers, developing different strategies in preventive ways, sizing risks, dismissing financial costs, maximizing investments and helping our clients to make unlikely operations possible.

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In addition to the perspective of supporting the management of real estate mergers, OSTHOFF & SANT'ANNA GOMES LAWYERS advises clients aiming to maximize the perspective of real estate assets in strategies for financial reengineering, business in general and for the reversal of situations of business crisis.

The multiplication of partnerships between the public and private sectors shows an irreversible trend on the government agenda for the XXI century. The social organizations that promote the management of public structures and other civil society organizations in partnership deals to perform social projects must have a management as efficient as the corporations have, must accomplish goals and fill a huge amount of legal demands which means a constant interference of the Estate in their business. OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES LAWYERS, offers remarkable support to the management of these organizations from the third sector making affordable the access to a broader level of governance, strategies, documentation, titles and accounting.

Taxes are always the main concern of investors and organizations in general. The accurate comprehension of the assessment of costs and its adjustments to procedures and managing decisions is necessary and fundamental for the stability of the clients' business calculations. OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES LAWYERS can contribute to soft the repercussions of this severe Brazilian tax scenario and its complex net of unpredictable wealth consequences. Concerning all this, the law office works monitoring the tax statue's as a preventive measure, tax liability, judicial and administrative defenses, deficiency notices and other notices from the tax authority.

Some legal demands in the clients' daily routine, especially business man and woman who work for companies and similar organizations (including those of the Third Sector) recommend the creation of a specific field  in the law office to manage their interests concerning contracts, properties, leases, collections, consumption relations in general, civil procedures, compensations, family conflicts, probate processes and wills. The Civil Law Department works on these cases considering the strong emotional feelings around it that demand the same care and attention of pure professional cases.

In the current information era we witness an ongoing development of the means of production and distribution of goods and services through tools that offer personalised experiences with easy access. Considering this scenario two aspects should be brought to attention: (i) the added value of immaterial goods overcomes the value of material assets and (ii) new business models appear all the time based on new technologies. Therefore, we can see the importance of the accurate comprehension and legal protection of these goods and business structures to maximize the economic benefit and minimize the risks.

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In the Industrial Property field OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES LAWYERS works on the development of judicial and administrative legal solutions, drafting and analyzing contracts in general (including international contracts) concerning geographical indications, trademarks, industrial designs, patents of inventions, protection of commercial names and websites, legal advice for negotiations concerning franchising, technology transfer, know how, computer programs and softwares, periodic renovation of trademarks protection. We also work protecting our clients and its inventions from piracy and all kinds of unfair competition in the judicial and administrative field in order to guarantee legal and economic security.

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Specifically in the Innovation field, our market legal practice aims to contribute to the business management pointing the best possible model in order to maximize creative and social businesses and startups, offering legal advice about angel investors, venture capital, private equity, IPOs and Innovation Promotion Laws.

In the current information era we witness an ongoing development of the means of production and distribution of goods and services through tools that offer personalised experiences with easy access. Considering this scenario two aspects should be brought to attention: (i) the added value of immaterial goods overcomes the value of material assets and (ii) new business models appear all the time based on new technologies. Therefore, we can see the importance of the accurate comprehension and legal protection of these goods and business structures to maximize the economic benefit and minimize the risks.

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In the field of Copyrights and Entertainment, OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES LAWYERS works on the development of judicial and administrative legal solutions, drafting and analyzing contracts in general for artists, publishers, audiovisual and phonographic producers, design offices, engineers, architects, photographers and writers. More specifically we work with Celebrities rights, Creative Commons, Cultural Promotion Laws, protection of TV program formats, royalties & clearance, legal issues about events production, licensing of image and voice, book adaptations, music versions, artistic production, order of future work, distribution of protected content. We also work protecting our clients and its creations from plagiarism and all kinds of violations in the judicial and administrative field in order to guarantee legal and economic security.

OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES ADVOGADOS  concentra experiência sobre as múltiplas e complexas interações entre o ambiente público e o setor privado, em constante evolução das parcerias e modelos de colaboração desde a expansão geométrica, e ainda inacabada, de relevantes perspectivas negociais oriundas da Reforma do Estado ao final do século XX.  Sob a ótica da iniciativa privada, campo para o chamado “direito administrativo econômico”, o ambiente regulatório e concorrencial, inclusive e principalmente para empresas estrangeiras, ampliou o leque de interações que devem ser compreendidas, para a segurança do investimento, em seus riscos, custos e benefícios. Além da perspectiva de suporte à gestão de empresas privadas no espaço público, as empresas estatais também podem usufruir da expertise da OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES ADVOGADOS em sua nova governança, ética e compliance.

A multiplicação de tipos de relacionamento disponíveis, tanto para, estatais, empresas privadas ou organizações de terceiro setor, reflete uma tendência irreversível (da agenda governamental permanente do Século XXI) de atuação conjunta entre o público e o privado - parcerias público-privadas, convênios, organizações sociais, OSC, concessões, autorizações, permissões, terceirizações - transferindo cada vez mais responsabilidades legais e contratuais às organizações que se relacionam com o Estado.

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Da comunhão das equipes altamente especializadas em direito EMPRESARIAL e ADMINISTRATIVO, OSTHOFF & SANT’ANNA GOMES ADVOGADOS conquistou know-how suficiente para proporcionar às empresas que se relacionam com o Estado, a segurança do aconselhamento que antecipa soluções e previne riscos (contratuais, fiscais, tributários, de prestação de contas, entre outros) de nossos clientes em seu(s) relacionamento(s) com o Poder Público.