The Firm

The firm was founded in 2015 by attorney Maria Augusta Santos Parretti and advises clients in Brazil and abroad.

The practice has two sides. One is guiding decisions before they turn into risk: how to structure a transaction, what to sign, what not to sign. The other is defending the client once the dispute already exists, in administrative or court proceedings. Both require understanding the business before discussing the rule, and that is how we work.

The founder

Maria Augusta Santos Parretti read law at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie on a full scholarship and holds a postgraduate specialisation in Tax Law from CEU Law School. She also holds a degree in Portuguese Language from PUC-SP, where she taught Legal Language as an assistant professor.

Before and during her legal career she worked as a grammar and composition teacher and as a copy editor, revising more than twenty published books along with theses, dissertations and technical papers. That changes how the firm writes: an ambiguous contract is a contract someone will read against you, and a confusing defence is one the judge does not finish reading.

How we work

Most of what we do is preventive. Structuring the transaction, reviewing the contract and putting tax obligations in order costs less than arguing about the liability later, and spares the client the strain of litigation.

When a dispute cannot be avoided, we act at every level, administrative and judicial. Each solution is scaled to the size of the client, whether an individual, a rural producer or a company.

We work in Portuguese and English.