Chagas Hespanhol Advogados is a law firm specialized in Economic Criminal Law (White Collar Crimes), Compliance, Environmental Law, and Agrarian Law, in addition to providing sophisticated advocacy services.
With coverage throughout the Brazilian territory, the law firm maintains successful partnerships throughout Latin America and with countries that establish significant political and commercial relations with Brazil, such as Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Israel.
Learn a little more about our practice areas:
White collar and investigations
Economic Criminal Law (White Collar Crimes) is a branch of Law that studies, regulates, and applies legal provisions to offenses committed against the economic order. Through this specialty, Chagas Hespanhol Advogados aims, in its practice, not only to correct illegalities committed in the course of investigations and criminal actions but also to establish a proactive defense mechanism that does not do without defending and protecting the economic activity of its clients, in a free market environment, whose actors establish complex relations in their daily activities, sometimes little understood by state authorities.
To correct illegalities and even injustices that can harm the reputation of companies and their managers, we conduct defensive advocacy, aiming at preserving economic and business activity.
Compliance and LGPD
The term derives from the English "to comply," generally translated as complying or obeying. Therefore, legal compliance is a strategy that ensures that companies act in compliance with laws and their own internal rules.
Chagas Hespanhol Advogados provides consulting services for the adaptation of business conduct to laws, ethical standards, and market demands. We are also specialists in cybersecurity, offering advice on the application of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD) and other needs for our clients' information security.
It is worth highlighting that the law firm's action in building compliance projects follows an innovative approach compared to generic and standardized solutions that are references in the market. We consider that economic growth is the guideline for decision-making that impacts the company and its managers' reputation.
Environmental
Environmental Law aims to protect natural resources from human activities that are effective or potentially impactful on the environment. And the law firm has the clarity that the engines and actors of economic and social growth in Brazil are true allies of environmental preservation and sustainable development.
However, the complexity of the legislation and bureaucracy of the state, instead of providing protection, produces risks, damages, and even injustices to entrepreneurs.
Therefore, the law firm maintains the monitoring of the constant updates of environmental legislation, to propose solutions that generate the sustainability of clients businesses while preserving natural resources. The application of the Forest Code, regulation of the carbon market, crimes against fauna and flora, and actions on the protection of the environment are just some of the main topics addressed in this legal sphere. And preserving the image of companies by representing them in the political scenario, correcting illegalities, minimizing risks, and combating institutional violence is the path adopted by Chagas Hespanhol Advogados.
Agrarian
Agribusiness is Brazil's darling in the world and one of the main drivers of our development in recent decades. To engage with the political and economic actors responsible for constructing the new paradigms that will guide the sector in the coming years, it is necessary to have a deep understanding of how the possession and ownership of land in our country has been historically constituted, as well as the development of bureaucratic structures and production processes themselves.
Agrarian Law is the branch of law that aims to study the relationships between humans and rural property. Intrinsically linked to environmental law, it follows the guidelines of geopolitics theories in constant evolution regarding land use permissions, such as the distinction between Legal Reserves and Permanent Preservation Areas.
In this sphere, we work on the elaboration or defense of actions related to the countryside, assisting producers, companies in the sector, cooperatives, and even family groups in building paths of growth, prosperity, and security.
