Business Legal Consulting with Efficiency, Simplicity, and Confidence

A practical and objective approach focused on results. Knowledge and experience combined with streamlined client service. 

About Us

We are a business law firm dedicated to enabling and supporting business growth. Our team is composed of highly qualified professionals with strong technical expertise and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Founded in 2020, our lawyers are actively involved in our clients’ day-to-day business operations, combining commercial awareness, simplicity, and technical excellence. Our culture is dynamic and supported by a lean, modern structure.

We are focused on delivering the results our clients expect. We leverage technology to simplify processes, generate insights that reduce risk, and support faster decision-making and more efficient resource allocation.

Our clients include family-owned businesses, where trust and close relationships are essential, as well as well-established companies pursuing growth. We serve businesses across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, real estate, agribusiness, food and beverage, healthcare, and foreign companies operating in Brazil. 

Our Practice Areas

We are more than legal advisors. We are business partners. We operate across the key areas that support sustainable business growth providing assistance with ongoing business operations as well as the planning and execution of strategic expansion, internationalization, and diversification projects.

Ongoing Business Operations

Legal support for the activities that sustain your business. We assist with contract drafting and review, corporate governance and organizational matters, shareholder relations, governance frameworks that minimize conflicts and provide management predictability, as well as recurring preventive legal support in civil, commercial, real estate, compliance, data protection (LGPD), and regulatory matters. 

Strategic Projects

Planning and execution of expansion initiatives through complex contracts and transactional operations requiring sophisticated legal structuring to support decision-making. These include M&A transactions, corporate reorganizations, real estate developments, establishment of branches and distribution centers, development of new business models, and other strategic projects. 

Transactional Projects and Investments

Complex projects requiring sophisticated corporate and contractual structuring, including the design, review, and implementation of corporate structures and legal instruments aimed at operational efficiency, corporate organization, and strategic preparation for investment fundraising. 

key services

Corporate Law, Business Families, and Governance

Corporate housekeeping, multi-shareholder relationships, and the professionalization of decision-making processes. Structuring governance models that regulate the relationship between shareholders and management, as well as family governance frameworks designed to ensure business continuity and facilitate communication and mediation among family members. 

key services

Startups and Commercial Contracts

Fundraising and investment transactions, including the negotiation and drafting of documents related to mergers, acquisitions, and company sales. Negotiation, drafting, and review of complex commercial agreements tailored to business operations and commercial objectives. Startup mentoring services. 

Trademarks and Intellectual Property

Protection and management of trademarks and intellectual property assets, ensuring legal certainty for business growth, expansion, and value creation. 

Real Estate and Physical Expansion

Real estate transactions ranging from legal due diligence to implementation and closing, protecting investments and mitigating registry, contractual, and asset-related risks. We support companies and investors in the acquisition, organization, and development of real estate assets, as well as in the expansion of business units, retail networks, and commercial locations. 

Antitrust, Compliance, and Data Privacy

Implementation of policies, codes of conduct, and business practices designed to foster a culture of compliance and reduce legal and reputational risks. Assessment of competition law risks arising from contracts, distribution networks, supplier and customer relationships, commercial strategies, and corporate transactions. 

International Business and Operations

Cross-border transactions that require coordination between different legal systems and business cultures. We advise foreign companies and investors doing business in Brazil and support the structuring, establishment, and operation of their activities within the country. 

Companies Trust Our Advice to Structure Governance and Drive Strategic Decisions

We help businesses build robust governance frameworks, mitigate risks, and confidently pursue their strategic objectives.

Our Team

Camila Safatle

A legal executive with over 25 years of experience, Camila advises on mergers and acquisitions, investment agreements, corporate restructurings, antitrust matters, and other business law issues, always combining strategic insight with a strong focus on achieving clients’ objectives and expected outcomes.

She also serves as a startup mentor through Inovaparq and is a member of ethics and compliance committees.

Karin Merz

A legal executive with more than 17 years of experience, Karin works at the intersection of law, business, government relations, and international operations, with a particular focus on structuring and reorganizing business operations in Brazil within multi-jurisdictional environments, complex regulatory frameworks, and institutional engagement contexts.

Her experience across academic, governmental, and international environments enables her to provide a strategic perspective on how legal decisions influence business feasibility, execution, and long-term success.

Priscila de Sá Basqueira

With more than 10 years of experience in corporate and commercial law within the agribusiness and food sectors, she has extensive expertise in negotiating, drafting, and managing complex commercial agreements.

Her practice focuses on contracts, transactional projects, corporate law, and corporate governance.

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R. Gothard Kaesemodel, 254. 3º andar, Sala 01
Anita Garibaldi, Joinville - SC, 89203-400.

CAMILA SAFATLE

Camila lectures Antitrust and Anticorruption Law at the Universidade Católica de Santa Catarina. She is a member of the WIA – Women in Antitrust and sits on the Brazilian Bar Association’ Commission for Competition and Economic Regulation Studies – CECORE, OAB/SC. She is a former General Coordinator of Market Control at the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, Secretariat of Economic Law (now known as CADE). 

Camila has in-depth experience in corporate law and governance, as in the implementation of competition compliance programs, the negotiation and drafting of complex commercial agreements, including in the fields of R&D and innovation.

She represents clients in strategic M&As, corporate restructurings, merger notifications and antitrust cases before the Brazilian antitrust authority – CADE, with strategic planning, focusing on the client’s goals and objectives.

Languages: English and Spanish.

> LL.M. IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW FROM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON.

> POSTGRADUATE QUALIFICATION IN EUROPEAN STUDIES FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA – PORTUGAL

> MBA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT FROM THE FGV EDUCAÇÃO EXECUTIVA BUSINESS SCHOOL

> GRADUATE IN LAW FROM THE INSTITUTO PRESBITERIANO MACKENZIE

OAB/SP nº 168.808
OAB/SC n° 59.899-A

PRISCILA DE SÁ BASQUEIRA

Priscila has experience in negotiation, drafting and management of various contracts, including those in the fields of agribusiness and food industry. 

Development of strategic projects such as structuring and management of corporate in-house legal departments, corporate planning and implementation of policies and in-house training to support internal clients.

Performance in M&A projects in Brazil and abroad and investment projects such as CRA and FIDC, among other business topics.

Languages: English, French and Spanish.

> LL.M. IN BUSINESS LAW FROM THE FGV BUSINESS SCHOOL.

> GRADUATION IN LAW FROM THE UNIVERSITY PONTIFICIA CATOLICA OF PARANÁ.

OAB / PR nº 78.091
OAB/SC nº 62462-A

PRISCILA DE SÁ BASQUEIRA

Com experiência em negociação, elaboração e gerenciamento de contratos diversos, incluindo os da área de agronegócio e ramo alimentício. 

Desenvolvimento de projetos estratégicos como de estruturação de departamento jurídico corporativo, planejamento e gestão societária e implementação de processos e treinamentos para suporte aos clientes internos.

Atuação em projetos de M&A (Fusões e Aquisições) no Brasil e exterior e projetos na modalidade de investimento como CRA e FIDC, entre outros temas empresariais.

Idiomas: Inglês, francês e espanhol.

> LL.M. EM DIREITO EMPRESARIAL PELA FGV EDUCAÇÃO EXECUTIVA.

> GRADUAÇÃO EM DIREITO PELA UNIVERSIDADE PONTIFÍCIA CATÓLICA DO PARANÁ.

OAB/PR nº 78.091
OAB/SC nº 62462-A

CAMILA SAFATLE

Camila é professora de pós-graduação na Universidade Católica de Santa Catarina, membro da WIA – Women in Antitrust, do Instituto Brasileiro de Governança Corporativa – IBGC e atua como Mentora para Startups em SC e SP. 

Tem ampla experiência em governança corporativa e societária, e em negociação e elaboração de contratos comerciais complexos, incluindo em áreas relacionadas à inovação e sistemas de franquias.

Atua em projetos transacionais, fusões e aquisições, reestruturação societária, governança corporativa, planejamento de sucessório em empresas familiares.

Idiomas: Inglês e espanhol.

> LL.M. EM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LAW PELA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. 

> PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ESTUDOS EUROPEUS PELA UNIVERSIDADE DE COIMBRA.

> MBA EM GESTÃO EMPRESARIAL PELA FGV EDUCAÇÃO EXECUTIVA.

> GRADUAÇÃO EM DIREITO PELO INSTITUTO PRESBITERIANO MACKENZIE.

OAB/SP nº 168.808
OAB/SC n° 59.899-A