C MOTTA acts as a strategic legal partner to issuers, shareholders, officers and directors, and investors on capital markets matters, public company regulation, and preparation for market access. Our advice combines corporate experience, regulatory insight, transactional coordination, and documentary discipline to organize companies, governance, disclosure, internal policies, and decision-making processes in regulated environments. We also coordinate the various participants involved in market transactions, including transaction counsel, banks, auditors, consultants, fiduciary administrators, bookkeeping agents, and other advisors.

+ Public and Listed Companies

Ongoing advice to public companies, listed companies, controlling shareholders, significant shareholders, and officers and directors on corporate, regulatory, disclosure, and governance matters.

+ CVM and B3 Regulation

Recurring advice on regulatory matters before the CVM and B3, including regulatory interpretation, regulatory requirements, regulatory engagement, responses to official requests, and management of periodic obligations.

+ Disclosure and Market Communications

Organization of information disclosure processes, material facts, notices to the market, notices to shareholders, periodic forms, event-driven filings, and other documents required in regulated environments.

+ Periodic Reporting and Ongoing Obligations

Legal support for reference forms, registration forms, financial statements, quarterly information, shareholder meetings, minutes, voting maps, reports, and other regulatory filings.

+ Public Company Internal Policies

Drafting and review of policies on disclosure, securities trading, related-party transactions, risk management, nomination, compensation, compliance, internal controls, and corporate governance.

+ Public Company Governance

Structuring and review of boards of directors, statutory and non-statutory committees, the executive board, fiscal councils, decision-making authority levels, reserved matters, and corporate documentation routines.

+ Shareholder Meetings and Regulated Corporate Acts

Advice on the preparation, calling, conduct, and documentation of general shareholder meetings, board meetings, executive board meetings, voting ballots, management proposals, and participation manuals.

+ Administrative Defenses and Enforcement Proceedings

Representation in administrative defenses, supervision procedures, enforcement proceedings, settlement agreements, internal investigations, and responses to inquiries from the CVM, B3, and other competent authorities.

+ Shareholders, Controlling Shareholders, and Significant Investors

Advice to controlling shareholders, reference shareholders, significant investors, and members of controlling blocs on disclosure obligations, governance, voting, share trading, and relations with the company.

+ Corporate Transactions in Regulated Environments

Advice on reorganizations, mergers, spin-offs, consolidations, sales of control, capital increases, private offerings, related-party transactions, and other transactions with regulatory implications.

+ IPO Readiness and Legal Equity Story

Legal organization of companies for IPO processes, including review of corporate structure, governance, material contracts, contingencies, internal policies, corporate documentation, and disclosure.

+ Internal Controls and Regulatory Traceability

Structuring of internal processes for the approval, review, recording, and disclosure of information, with version control, allocation of responsibilities, documentary evidence, and decision-making trails.

+ Corporate, Regulatory, and Contractual Integration

Integrated advice on corporate, regulatory, and contractual matters, with a focus on documentary consistency, coordinated execution, regulatory predictability, and alignment with the capital markets environment.

+ Preparation for Market Access

Advice to companies, shareholders, and officers and directors on corporate reorganization, governance review, control structuring, documentary organization, and institutional preparation for access to the capital markets.

+ Coordination of Capital Markets Transactions

Legal leadership and client-side coordination of transaction counsel, banks, auditors, consultants, fiduciary administrators, bookkeeping agents, and other process participants, including review of engagement letters, legal fee proposals, and commercial proposals from advisors, with analysis of scope, responsibilities, deliverables, limitations of liability, approval flows, and alignment with the regulatory and transactional timetable.

Discover our areas of practice

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

C MOTTA advises on M&A with the necessary combination of senior legal judgment, an economic assessment of the transaction, and disciplined execution. C MOTTA is not merely a law firm. It is the ideal partner for clients who need legal counsel capable of understanding their business, their strategy, and the perspectives of the buyer, the […]

02

Private Equity and Venture Capital

C MOTTA acts as a long-term partner in private equity and venture capital transactions, advising investors, fund managers, founders, and portfolio companies from capital entry through the liquidity event. Our advice combines corporate legal expertise, transactional experience, and negotiating experience to structure transactions with legally protected purchase price mechanics, efficient governance, aligned incentives, contractually allocated […]

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Corporate Law, Governance, and Senior Management Advisory

C MOTTA acts as a strategic legal partner to shareholders, boards of directors, committees, officers and directors, holding companies, corporate groups, and public and privately held companies on corporate, governance, and senior management matters. Our advice combines corporate legal expertise, institutional judgment, and a practical understanding of corporate decision-making dynamics, with a focus on structure, […]

04

Capital Markets and Regulation

C MOTTA acts as a strategic legal partner to issuers, shareholders, officers and directors, and investors on capital markets matters, public company regulation, and preparation for market access. Our advice combines corporate experience, regulatory insight, transactional coordination, and documentary discipline to organize companies, governance, disclosure, internal policies, and decision-making processes in regulated environments. We also […]

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Strategic Transactions and Contracts

C MOTTA acts as a strategic legal partner in business transactions and complex contracts that support growth, operational reorganization, commercial alliances, innovation, technology, distribution, supply, and long-term business relationships. Our advice combines contract law expertise, an economic assessment of the relationship, and negotiating experience to transform contracts into instruments for execution, governance, risk allocation, dispute […]

06

International Expansion and Global Structuring

C MOTTA acts as a strategic legal partner to corporate groups, shareholders, investors, officers and directors, and companies in international expansion, global growth, and multi-jurisdictional reorganizations. Our advice combines corporate law expertise, transactional experience, international coordination, and operational insight to structure holding companies, sub-holdings, investment vehicles, contractual flows, and governance models aligned with the expansion […]

07

Family Groups and Succession

C MOTTA acts as a strategic legal partner to family groups, business-owning families, shareholders, heirs, officers and directors, and boards in corporate, wealth, and succession planning matters. Our advice combines corporate law expertise, governance, transactional experience, and institutional insight into family business relationships, with a focus on continuity, stability, value preservation, and intergenerational transition. We […]

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Executive Compensation and Long-Term Incentives

C MOTTA acts as a strategic legal partner to companies, investors, boards of directors, compensation committees, shareholders, and executives in structuring compensation policies and long-term incentive plans. Our advice combines corporate law expertise, governance, transactional experience, and an economic assessment of the relationship among capital, management, and performance, with a focus on alignment of interests, […]

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933

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Dr. Cardoso de Melo Avenue, 1855 | 12th floor | 121B
Brasílio Machado Building | Vila Olímpia | CEP: 04548-005


                  
We handle exclusively highly complex matters. If you are seeking legal counsel led by senior lawyers, with the intelligence and discretion your business or transaction demands, we are ready to talk.