Practice Areas

Sukiennik Law Office offers advice and counseling both in traditional areas of law as the most advanced and innovative such as:

International Trade

• Assessment and follow-up in international trade negotiations
• International agreements – topics related to International Trade
• Trade barriers – Non-tariff barriers to trade such as: product standard; sanitary and phyto-sanitary conditions; quota shares
• International sales contracts / Collection / Brazilian and foreign investment in the
• Mercosur area
• Trade Defence Instruments – Compensation Measures; Anti-dumping; Subsidies;
• Safeguards

Administrative and Judicial International Cooperation

• Legalization of documents in Brasilia, Buenos Aires and Caracas
• Letter of Request
• Extradition
• Execution of foreign court decisions

Administrative Law

• Support in guidance regarding regulatory legislation
• Contracts and government bids: support to private companies on matters concerning the state sector in administrative matters such as: concession contracts, impugnation and bidding
• Administrative processes

Environmental Law

• Monitoring of administrative procedures before Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) and environment-related bodies
• Assessment and follow-up before Legislative
• Environmental licensing
• Environmental crimes
• Certification and use of the carbon sequestration credit trading under the Kyoto Protocol
• Consultancy and evaluation of projects related to biodiversity, biotechnology and climate change
• Administrative and Judicial disputes
• Environmental licensing, environmental impact assessment, environmental damage notification
• Guidance for obtaining and regularization of licenses and permits

Civil Law

• Contracts obligations and liabilities /  Consumer relationship / Civil responsibilities (compensation for material and moral damages) /  Real estate transactions
• Citizenship & Nationality options

Constitutional Law

• Implementation of constitutional remedies (warrants; habeas data)
• Legal opinion

Business Law

• Analysis and draft of commercial contracts, representation, foreign trade, sales and funding
• Assistance with the relevant bodies, such as: regulatory agencies and ministries
• Guidance for environmentally sustainable development of enterprises
• Guidance in the conduct of business, including relations with the Secretariat of Economic Law (SDE) and the Administrative Council of Economic Defense (CADE)
• Guidance and defending clients in police investigations and/or criminal proceedings
• Societies / Bankruptcy and Recoveries / Intellectual Property / Capital Markets / Franchising / Negotiations / Bonds

Tourism Law

• Advice regarding the procedures and functioning of country house hotels, Nature Tourism, Ecotourism, Green Tourism business
• Travel agencies – law, regulations and procedures
• Transport law – air, rail, sea and road
• International Tourism Law
• Timeshare rental rights
• Entrepreneurship in the Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure industries (licensing; authorization; permits)