Varella & Advogados Associados

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About Us

Varella & Advogados Associados is a boutique Law Firm, Rio de Janeiro based, founded and equipped to meet an all-time demand for high-level legal services, combining professional expertise with the need for speed and competence.

Following an international tendency, the Firm is committed to a select few practice area, serving local and foreign clients at the time of their needs with transparency and expertise.

Rendering a boutique service also means customized attention tailored to each client’s need, whereby our lawyers establish direct and ongoing lines of communication. Hence, the Firm is able to better identify the specific problems involved in each case, selecting the most efficient legal means by which to conduct and execute the respective service.

Varella & Advogados Associados is always committed to finding the most rapid, safe and proactive legal solutions, with competitive fees, which take into account the characteristics, resources availability and the complexities of each case, thus making our services accessible to a diversity of clients, whether local and foreign.

Team

Alexandre Eppinghaus Varella

Graduated from the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1998. From 1991 to 1993, he acted as a trainee at the law Firm of Villemor Amaral Advogados. In January 1995, he joined Veirano e Advogados Associados, first as a trainee and later as a lawyer, where he worked at the Firm's civil litigation department until 2001, when he left to constitute his own law Firm, Varella & Advogados Associados. For all his career, Alexandre has been involved in litigation, assisting foreign and national clients from the most diversified areas. In addition to civil and commercial litigation, Alexandre is an experienced lawyer on Administrative Law and Bankruptcy field, counseling and representing his clients on judicial liquidation and judicial reorganization. Alexandre has started assisting Export Credit Agencies (“ECAs”) during the year of 1996, when he first handled a collection case in Brazil on behalf of Export Import Bank of United States (“Ex-Im Bank”). Afterwards, he has been assisting Ex-Im Bank on collection matters in quite a lot of cases, including judicial and extrajudicial collections, debt rescheduling instruments and the rendering of legal opinions on Brazilian legal issues related to the enforcement of credit instruments and collaterals thereof, among others. As a consequence of his expertise on collection of ECAs credits in Brazil, Alexandre through his Firm has also been retained by the Export Development of Canada (“EDC”) and the Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG (“OeKB”) to render legal services regarding the collection of credits arising from export financing and to assist on the origination of the finance transactions, including the draft and proper execution of loan documents, guarantee instruments and the registry thereof before the corresponding Brazilian Notaries and Agencies. Upon the acknowledged expertise in legal advice related to the origination and negotiation of export financing credits, Alexandre has been retained by lenders and manufacturers located in United States of America, Canada and Europe to render legal services during the contracting phase, asset management and credit recovery. In addition to Ex-Im Bank, OeKB and EDC, Alexandre is currently rendering legal services on renegotiation and collection of credits backed by the Luxembourg Export Credit Agency (“ODL”), the UK Finance, Euler Hermes and SACE. He is fluent in English.

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Christiane Moraes Lemgruber

Graduated from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). She has acted as a trainee at Trench Rossi e Watanabe Advogados ("TRW" - Baker & Mackenzie office in Brazil) during the year of 2005. In January 2006, Ms. Ana Tereza Basilio, the international partner from TRW's litigation area, left the Firm and invited her to join Andrade & Fichtner Advogados, first as a trainee and later as a lawyer. In January 2009, Ms. Basilio left the Firm to constitute her own law Firm, Basilio Advogados, and invited her to join the Firm. In March 2010, she joined Varella & Advogados as attorney focused in civil and commercial litigation assisting foreign and national clients. She also acts in administrative and real estate property law. She is fluent in English.

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Pratice Areas

Export Finance: Origination, Renegotiation and Collection

Varella & Advogados Associados has acknowledged expertise in legal advice related to the origination and negotiation of export finance credits granted to Brazilian companies by foreign financial institutions and Export Credit Agencies, working in the contracting phase, as well as in the renegotiation and collection of the credits. These services involve asset management and credit recovery, as well as advices on all legal issues arising out the finance agreements and collateral instruments thereof. In this connection, the firm is currently assisting foreign financial institutions and Export Credit Agencies on judicial and extrajudicial collections and credit rescheduling negotiations all over Brazil. The firm also renders services to manufacturers, exporters and lenders engaged on the ECAs financing programs, assisting on the draft of legal instruments and accomplishment of legal requirements precedents to the respective funding or sales. Such work includes the rendering of opinions on the proper execution of the loan documents and the registry of the security interest instruments before the corresponding Brazilian Notaries and Agencies.

Foreign Capital

The firm is well qualified to advise foreign clients on Brazilian Central Bank (BACEN) Regulatory regarding any sorts of investments in Brazil, having long experience in matters involving the incorporation of businesses, the acquiring of assets, reinvestments and repatriation of capital, remittance of profits, and all other similar matters.

Litigation

Our lawyers are experienced in all types of civil and commercial litigation, having practiced in every kind of upper and lower court in Brazil. To make this possible, the Firm counts on correspondent attorneys throughout the country, thereby guaranteeing the monitoring of lawsuits in the most remote regions of Brazil.

Commercial Law

The Firm is specialized in the drawing up, negotiation and termination of all types of business and commercial contracts, including export finance agreements, distribution and representation agreements, mortgage, chattel mortgage and pledge agreements, among others, and it relies on experienced professionals in handling litigation resulting from such contractual relations. Our lawyers are also prepared to advise on questions involving asset management and credit recovery vis-à-vis both bankruptcy filings, the liquidation under chapter 7 and the reorganization under chapter 11. The Firm also counsels clients on how to avoid suits based on the Consumers Defense Code.

Real Estate Law

The Firm defends the interests of its clients in innumerous questions regarding real estate law, advising as to the buying and selling of properties and in the respective litigations arising from property ownership and domain.

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Estrada União Indústria, nº 10.673, Grupo G, Itaipava, Petrópolis – Rio de Janeiro – Brasil - CEP 25.730-740
Tel: 55 (21) 2215-3533 – Fax: 55 (21) 2220-8452

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