Lasmar Advogados is a boutique law firm focused on families’ and family businesses’ services.
Our extensive knowledge and experience in providing legal services dedicated to individuals, family group and family-owned entities, combined with our highly qualified and skilled team, allows us to deliver unparalleled personalized and high value-added legal solutions to our niche clients.
We know that each family group is unique – that is why we relentlessly seek to know every new client in depth, understanding their specific culture and objectives. We always walk alongside our clients throughout their families’ and companies’ different stages of life, building a close relationship of mutual trust based on shared beliefs, values and stories, which nourish our lasting connections.
With this long-standing relationship, we are able to have a “bird’s-eye view” and holistic approach to the various aspects involving the life cycles of our clients’ family and businesses, as well as a deep knowledge of their profile, which enables us to better foresee potential conflicts and risks and deliver, in an agile, safe and assertive manner, carefully tailored advice fully adherent to the particular perspective of our clients’ goals and needs.
Based on this singular approach and our unconditional commitment to the long-term safeguarding of our clients’ interests, many of our clients see us not only as their lawyers, but mainly as their trusted personal advisors.
Areas of expertise
Our strategic litigation practice includes assistance on all stages of litigation, always providing our clients with a qualitative and quantitative view (“jurimetrics”) of the conflict, whether on its prevention, through the elaboration of legal opinions, notices, specific legal advice and acting on mediations, or in the broad legal assistance and representation in administrative, judicial and arbitration proceedings involving the most diverse areas of law.
The vast experience of our top-tier M&A team in transactions of varied sizes, natures and industries, both domestically and internationally, particularly on the “sell side” advising families and family businesses for over 25 years, sets us apart in the Brazilian M&A scene.
Based on a close relationship with our clients, including active participation in the various legal, commercial and emotional discussions associated with the management, protection and eventual sale of their assets, whether partially to a financial investor, fully to a strategic investor, or by going public or merging/associating with third parties, we have developed an unrivaled “skin in the game” approach to advising on M&A transactions: we fully incorporate the particular challenges and goals of our clients, invariably acting as a true extension of the family in the legal and strategic sphere.
From a strictly legal perspective, we provide complete assistance on structuring and implementing the transaction and monitoring its post-closing, including the preparation of the asset/company for the transaction, pre-transaction (“vendor’s”) due diligence, definition of the market approach strategy, prospect of potential investors, interface with financial advisors involved in the process, binding and non-binding offers’ evaluation and review, drafting, review and negotiation of any and all agreements and/or documents (preliminary or binding) required for the execution of the transaction, submission of the transaction for approval by regulatory bodies (i.e. CADE, BACEN), registration of documents before the applicable authorities (i.e. board of trade, notary’s offices), and post-closing management and monitoring.
Our M&A practice goes far beyond providing industry-leading legal advice in complex corporate transactions. As trusted advisors to our clients and M&A transaction specialists, we value personal relationships. Our team has an extensive network of contacts with investors and market professionals of all kinds and, where appropriate, we put all this relationship and knowledge of the M&A industry to the benefit of our clients through unique connections capable of generating strategic value and new business opportunities.
