Presentation: The Law Firm França Ribeiro Advocacia began its activities in 1951 through its founder Luiz de França Ribeiro. The Firm's expansion and growth are the result of its commitment to the providing of comprehensive, permanent and personalized services to its clients. From the beginning, the Firm was predominantly directed to the corporate practice, providing broad assistance in several areas of law to a diversified client base of Brazilian and foreign companies, these companies originating from Europe, North America, South America and Asia. With a team of lawyers practicing in several areas of law, and having an appropriate infra-structure of personnel and equipment for the providing of effective legal services, the Firm encourages its attorneys to attend courses, seminars and conferences aimed at updating knowledge in the legal area. The Firm also emphasizes the improvement of their foreign languages skills to allow it to provide better services to its large international client base. It is important to point out that the majority of the França Ribeiro Advocacia lawyers began their professional careers with the Firm, which enabled it to maintain the quality of the legal work and the highest standards in the providing of services. The Firm keeps close ties with attorneys throughout Brazil, in addition to interacting with law firms from different countries, especially those which are members of Mercosur. As of November 2000, after many years of mutual cooperation, França Ribeiro Advocacia affiliated with the northamerican law firm Baker and Hostetler, LLP, which has offices in several cities in the United States of America, including Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Costa Mesa, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando and Washington, D.C. and its affiliate office Enriquez, Gonzalez, Aguirre y Ochoa, from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Activities and services: Corporate Law, Tax Law, Foreign Investments, Contracts, Labor Law, Industrial Property, Litigation, Real Estate Law, Family Law and Succession, Competition, Environmental Law, Consumer Law.
Languages: English, Spanish and French.
Established since: 1951
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