{"id":12819,"date":"2023-06-28T00:04:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/campos-mello-advogados-opens-brasilia-office\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T00:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T03:04:03","slug":"campos-mello-advogados-opens-brasilia-office","status":"publish","type":"contents","link":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/homolog\/contents\/campos-mello-advogados-opens-brasilia-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Campos Mello Advogados opens Brasilia office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rio de Janeiro, November 16, 2020 \u2013<\/strong> Campos Mello Advogados (CMA) is opening its Brasilia office this Monday (16) to strengthen the public law and governmental affairs practice and also to provide its clients with even more complete services, from lower to higher courts. CMA has operated for 39 years and was a pioneer among Brazilian law firms in seeking internationalization, which took place ten years ago through its cooperation with DLA Piper, one of the world\u2019s largest law firms. CMA has operations in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, London, and New York.<\/p>\n<p>A stronger presence in Brazil\u2019s capital will expand CMA\u2019s activity of monitoring matters related to the Executive Branch, the National Congress, regulatory agencies, government-owned banks and development financial institutions, as well as controlling agencies such as the Federal Accounting Court (TCU) and the Office of the Federal Controller General (CGU). With the increasing share of the private sector in concession-based services, CMA\u2019s work with federal regulatory agencies will also be ever more strategic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCMA works throughout Brazil and across several global hubs, monitoring its clients\u2019 matters. Now, being installed in Brasilia, this will allow us to connect with an even greater multiplicity of government agencies,\u201d explains CMA managing partner Fabio Campos Mello.<\/p>\n<p>With its origins as a real estate law practice, CMA became a full-service law firm and, in the last years, has expanded its scope to capital markets, energy, insurance, penal, Brazil\u2019s General Data Protection Law (LGPD), and data security and regulation. The firm\u2019s permanent presence in Brasilia will mostly reinforce its public law and compliance practices, along with its technical work with Brazil\u2019s House of Representatives and Federal Senate, professional associations and trade associations. The Brasilia office will be led by partners Rafael Bussi\u00e8re, Carolina Caiado and Paulo Renato Barroso.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opportunities generated by legislative changes in several areas \u2013 such as that which resulted in the debureaucratization of the sale of federal real property and lands, after the passing of Law No. 14.011\/20 \u2013 will also encourage clients to seek advice for businesses run from Brasilia,\u201d explains Rafael Bussi\u00e8re, real estate partner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be very close to Brazil\u2019s decision-making center. We will be in touch with information at its source, without intermediaries. In today\u2019s world, information is the most precious asset. This will, without a doubt, be an important asset for our clients,\u201d says partner Paulo Renato Barroso.<\/p>\n<p>Partner Carolina Caiado points out that the practice of public law has become increasingly more strategic in Brazil in the last years. \u201cThis has mostly taken place after there started a gradual reduction of state presence in the country\u2019s economy, with various utilities being transferred to private initiative through concession agreements and public-private partnerships,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n<p>CMA will expand its services with preparing strategies for clients in monitoring the progress of legislative matters, proposals of interest in Ministries, in addition to preparing risk reports, political scenario reports and technical notes for public hearings, as well as providing advice for interactions with public authorities. The firm will also increase its existing work in litigation before higher courts. Another area of great importance to the Public Law and Governmental Affairs practice group will be government procurement, including information technology, healthcare, transportation, defense, and cybersecurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12820,"template":"","categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12819","contents","type-contents","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sem-categoria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/homolog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contents\/12819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/homolog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contents"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/homolog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/contents"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/homolog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/homolog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/homolog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmalaw.com\/homolog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}