Experience has taught PLMJ and TozziniFreire that the greatest ally of any investor set on cross-border expansion is a reliable law firm in the target country.

Aiming to ensure this level of support, PLMJ and TozziniFreire were pioneers in keeping pace with their clients’ international expansion, extending the law firm’s reach to the various countries in which their clients were expanding. To this end, the firms developed a network of international ties with firms that share their vision of the practice of law as well as their demanding core values and to whom they can therefore entrust their clients’ interests.

PLMJ and TozziniFreire have been Joint-Venture partners since 2004 to pursue this common goal.

The advantages for clients are clear. PLMJ’s clients can rely on high quality legal services in Brazil and TozziniFreire’s national coverage provides them with a privileged entry point into the huge market that is Brazil. TozziniFreire’s network of contacts with the best law offices in Latin America is also a significant advantage for clients who can expand their business all over the continent with guaranteed high quality legal services and the highest technical and ethical standards.

In their turn, TozziniFreire clients have access to high quality legal services in Portugal and access to the European Union. Further, they benefit from PLMJ’s partnership with leading law firms in Angola and Mozambique, countries with strong economic growth which are very attractive to Brazilian investments.

In addition to the free movement of lawyers between the two firms, the ties were further strengthened with the setting up of a Brazilian Desk in Portugal and a Portuguese Desk in Brazil, composed of well-known Portuguese and Brazilian lawyers with a vast experience in designing and executing Luso-Brazilian transactions.

See PDF Foreign Investment in Brazil.