Main Areas of Expertise

• Restructuring, Bankruptcy and Insolvency

  LMORATO Advogados team has extensive experience advising and representing clients in different positions such as creditors, debtors, investors, buyers, shareholders, board directors, bond trustees, bondholders, and bankruptcy trustees.

  We provide our clients with a broad advisory and crisis management skills to navigate them through situations and business opportunities involving insolvent companies, in and out of court.

  Our team has great reputation in bankruptcy related litigation, including fraud issues, disregard of corporate veil, succession of liabilities and collateral/security enforcement, counting on deep ties with other firms locally and around the globe when our assistance involves cross-border matters as it frequently does.

  The team has represented clients in major restructuring cases such as Oi telecom, Odebrecht, Concessionária Rodovias do Tietê, Abengoa, Inepar, OAS, ERB, JBS-Friboi, Schahin, Alumini, Imcopa, OGX, OSX, Lupatech, Independência, Infinity, Tonon, Arantes, Agrenco, among others.

• Litigation and Arbitration

  We usually handle strategic and complex litigation matters in court and in arbitration cases, providing vigorous and indefatigable representation to our clients, with strong reputation mainly in corporate, contractual, banking, commercial, consumer, product liability, class actions, credit recovery and insolvency related cases, in almost all industries.

  In addition to our pre-litigation advisory, we are prepared and always attentive to tactically choose the best strategy aiming to leverage our clients’ position and provide them with an opportunity to efficiently resolve their disputes, or prevent a long and expensive litigation, through a settlement, when and if this is the desirable solution for our clients and their businesses objectives.

• Special situations and distressed investment

  We frequently assist clients as buyers, sellers or investors in special situations deals (generally involving an insolvent company or a highly risky related situation), handling distressed M&A transactions, DIP/Exit financing, loan-to-own investments, litigation funding, and transactions involving legal claims.

  In any given transaction involving a troubled company/asset, our clients appreciate our risk assessment, counting on our knowledge, strategic view, litigation skills, vast experience in bankruptcy related matters, and our ability to measure risks and identify the most appropriate solutions.