MEDIATION AND ARBITRATION
MOREIRA AND FERNANDES Advogados Associados has a specialized area of Arbitration and Mediation dedicated to advise clients in respect of those alternative forms of solving controversies.
We represent our clients in all arbitration procedures, and we have members of our team participating and acting as referee or lawyers in the main boards of arbitration and mediation in Brazil and abroad.
With lawyers fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, with academic experience and practice abroad, we represent with excellence Brazilian clients and foreign involved in arbitration in Brazil and abroad.

LABOR LAW
MOREIRA & FERNANDES Advogados Associados is prepared to offer services in labor and pension areas, as preventive consulting, providing legal opinions, administrative defense in labor regulatory agencies and governmental bodies, as well as preparing labor claims, defenses and appeals, hearings, orientating our clients for the best solution to their needs.

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
MOREIRA & FERNANDES Advogados Associados orientates and represent its clients towards any Brazilian governmental area, including State secretaries, Ministries, Autarky and regulatory agencies. MOREIRA & FERNANDES Advogados Associados also elaborates and analyze administrative agreements, represent the client in bids, since the evaluation of the notice with invitation to bid until the phase of impugnation and appeals. We can also render assistance in administrative litigious matters.

CIVIL LAW
MOREIRA & FERNANDES Advogados Associados render services in civil area in general, orientating and analyzing the situations concerning the contract law, leases, rentals, purchase and sale of real estate or goods and chattels and services, questions involving family law, heritage, succession, testamentary succession, material and moral indemnification, insurance and consumer rights.
We also can defend our clients in litigations, offering our services for the proposal of legal procedures, in defenses and replies, in hearings, appeals, memorials and in all prosecution jurisdiction or stage of a law suit, including the Brazilian Superior Courts.

CORPORATE LAW, SPLIT-UP, MERGES AND ACQUISITIONS
The corporate world demand dynamism and solutions to new commercial opportunities. Considering this, in their activities, the companies arise new business activities, start joint ventures to surpass difficulties or decide to acquire other companies. In this context, it is necessary to have expertise in corporate law to split-up, merge or acquire companies. MOREIRA & FERNANDES Advogados Associados is ready to find the best solutions for your corporate documents and according to the specific transactions made.

PREVENTIVE
All business activity takes risks, not always with full knowledge of the consequences of the acts committed. The preventive consulting services offered by Moreira & Fernandes Advogados Associados aims to provide better conditions for businessmen, embassies, international organizations and companies, to know the implications of the acts to be made before its completion, thus avoiding damage and unwanted demands.

CONTRACTS
In today's world, personal and professional relations have been developed and created opportunities and business. The warranty for an agreement to be fulfilled is the signature in a document that creates rights and obligations for each of the signing parts, as penalties for the breaking of the agreement. Thus, it becomes increasingly necessary to sign contracts for all situations. Moreira & Fernandes Advogados Associados is able to help you in many negotiations, withdrawing various types of contracts, since stable union contracts up to international contracts for the acquisition of equipment and services, including contracts to lease, hire, supply, license, sale, service, technology transfer, acquisition of know-how, commissioning and so on.

INTERNATIONAL LAW
International relations between people and companies have risen since globalization, creating the need for adaptation to rules of international law for the purchase of goods and services, investments abroad and in Brazil. Moreira & Fernandes Advogados Associados is prepared to assist in the preparation and negotiation of a variety of international contracts, assisting also Brazilian companies with the objective to open branches abroad and foreign companies wishing to settle in Brazil.

MINING LAW
Mining activities require specialized knowledge of the law that rules the use and the grant of mining rights. Every procedure requires mining licenses, permits, agreements with landowners, activity programs presentations and mining results relatories to authorities. We are able to advise on all mining activities, from obtaining licenses and permits, acting through government, and on documents, contracts with the landowners, contracts with companies for technical services, contracts for buying and sale of mining rights, contracts for purchase and sale of ore and contracts in general.

IMMIGRATION
To attend those who come to live permanently in Brazil or here to stay temporarily on business, Moreira & Fernandes Advogados Associados is able to help foreigners and their families, from the time they express the intention to live in Brazil until an eventual return. Our services include an indication of the appropriate type of visa, the request and analysis of the documentation required to conduct the visa obtaining process and the necessary authorization to work or invest in Brazil. We also assist foreigners to obtain license to drive, ID cards and other documents necessary to civilian life in Brazil, as well as aid in the celebration of real estate contracts and the hiring process of employees.

FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Whoever wants to invest in Brazil should follow specific procedures imposed by the Brazilian Government to obtain visas and permits to invest in the country. Moreira & Fernandes Advogados Associados can help foreigner investors to obtain all consents and approvals necessary for investments.

LEGAL SERVICES FOR IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANIES
Moreira & Fernandes Advogados Associados has experience in conducting legal procedures for import and export companies of goods and services. Our services include legal proceedings for the clearance of cargo and analysis of taxation in order to reduce the cost of imports and exports, among others.