BRAZIL Law and Practice Contributed by: Octaviano Duarte, Henrique Forssell, Marcelo Lucidi and Mayara Rahman Rufino, Duarte Forssell Advogados
Duarte Forssell Advogados (DFA) is a bou - tique law firm composed of four partners and 25 lawyers specialised in complex litigation, international asset recovery and transnational insolvency. The firm’s professionals have over 20 years’ experience in complex multi-jurisdic - tion claims and transactions. The team advises financial institutions, trustees, foreign liquida - tors and Brazilian and foreign business groups
in legal matters involving commercial, banking, bankruptcy, succession, corporate and con - tractual law. Headquartered in São Paulo, the firm operates in over 50 countries by means of an international network of legal professionals. DFA is the only law firm based in São Paulo that integrates FraudNet, an international network of lawyers created by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).
Authors
Octaviano Duarte is a founding partner of DFA, with 26 years’ experience advising financial institutions and business groups in legal claims and commercial negotiations. He acts in highly
Henrique Forssell is a founding partner of DFA, with extensive experience in advising trustees, foreign liquidators and financial institutions in the identification of bankruptcy and banking
complex cases in the areas of banking, civil, commercial, contractual, succession, tax, corporate and bankruptcy law, with a focus on banking frauds and (national and international) recovery of assets. In the area of transnational insolvency, he co-ordinates proceedings and projects intended to identify and recover assets diverted as a result of frauds in Brazil and abroad. In the commercial and contractual area, he participates in the definition of negotiation strategies, preparation of contractual instruments and pre-litigation legal advisory.
frauds. Over the last 16 years, he has been appointed by several judicial authorities to some of the most significant proceedings of international recovery of assets in Brazil. Since 2011, he has been a member of FraudNet, an organisation established by the International Chamber of Commerce that selects highly qualified and experienced lawyers in recovery of assets in each country. He was named as a reference lawyer in Brazil in recovery of defrauded assets by a leading legal research company.
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