The firm operates in civil society relations with the Government, with recognized expertise in strategic planning to finance actions by private individuals developed with public funds. Furthermore, the firm also advises state-owned companies and the Government on public policy planning through partnership laws with civil society.

The firm focuses on strategic partnership and on the fully understanding of its clients' goals in different commercial and market operations, uniting technical and legal capacity so as to understand the risks involved in each case and find positive negotiation conditions, consolidated in the appropriate contracts and legal documents, such as Licensing; Commercial Representation; Distribution; Franchise; Provision of Services; Sponsorship, among others.

Clearance work aims to disentangle the content and advise the professionals involved in producing large institutional projects and analyzing the legal risk of various content, including audiovisual content. The CQS/FV clearance team specializes in legal issues related to freedom of expression, personality rights, and copyrights, and it conducts legal risk analyses on materials related to the development or pre-publication phase (pre-publication reviews), reviewing fact-checking analyses for developing and producing different types of content. This work provides us with a very effective overview for making decisions in artistic, cultural, advertising, institutional, and sports projects.

In its Administrative Law activities, CQS/FV has accumulated innovative and differentiated know-how to implement a complete integrity program with actions aimed at complying with the rules of the Anti-Corruption Law, particularly with regards a secure relationship between the public and private sectors in financing public-interest private activities with public funds.

We offer complete legal support in integral corporate planning for Brazilian and multinational companies, as well as in setting up companies and in preparing the various types of corporate documents; registering foreign capital with the Central Bank of Brazil; corporate reorganization; and drafting and reviewing shareholders' agreements, subscription agreements, equity interests and/or assets purchase and sale agreements, association agreements, among others.

CQS/FV provides legal advice on environmental and sustainability issues, in a preventive and contentious manner. Our services include legal due diligence, including for corporate transactions, legal-environmental risk analysis and crisis management. We act in the negotiation, implementation and termination of Conduct Adjustment Terms with the Public Ministry and environmental agencies when necessary. We act in environmental licensing procedures before bodies at all levels of the federation as well as with the intervening bodies, indicating lower risk alternatives. We provide advice and representation in investigation procedures for environmental damage and management of contaminated areas; consultancy on Environmental Law topics – forestry law, waste management, conservation units, carbon market and environmental assets. We advise clients on sustainability issues, such as transparency and ESG reporting and stakeholder relationships. We also represent our clients in investigations and legal proceedings of an environmental nature, as well as in administrative proceedings arising from environmental assessments.

The process of setting standards often goes unnoticed by the sector it affects, resulting in more than one problem that could have been solved with effective work within the Brazilian Congress. Institutional and Government Relations is a preventive way of mitigating damage and improving the sector's legislation with the active participation of clients in the process of setting standards.

The firm has an outstanding command of Brazilian legislation and international treaties on intellectual property, including copyright, industrial property (trademarks, patents, industrial designs, geographical indications, unfair competition), software, protection of industrial secrets, technology transfer, biotechnology, franchise.

CQS/FV manages a mass litigation and strategic action portfolio. The matters under litigation include conflicts arising from the culture, entertainment, and technology markets, with activities in industrial property, such as brands and domain names, standing out. We also work with real estate, administrative and commercial law, consumer relations, advertising for children and advertising of products that pose health risks. We also work with cases before the Brazilian National Advertising Self-Regulation Council (CONAR) for important clients in their market segments.

Our activities in this area include legal and strategic advice in structuring and operating various activities, such as content distribution; exhibition; business models in Brazil for economic distributing agents; exhibitors; programmers; producers; online platforms; talent, etc. For this reason, we are also a reference in sectoral regulation, such as the various administrative procedures with ANCINE and other public agencies in the exercise of their regulatory, supervisory, and development powers.

The firm offers legal certainty to its clients in the acquisition, sale, and concentration of assets of interest, following all phases of negotiation of equity interests in asset sale and acquisition processes.

With recognized practice in nonprofit and social enterprise, the firm offers complete, high-quality legal advice for establishing associations and foundations and for their corporate planning; obtaining titles and certificates issued by public authorities (OS, CEBAS, OSCIP, in addition to State or Municipal Public Utilities); tax structuring and advice aimed at institutional development; in addition to planning support to finance activities with private and/or public funds.

In an economy increasingly based on the collection and use of data, it is vital that a company or entity adapts to data protection laws (CDC, LGPD, GDPR, the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet, among others) in its business or social purposes. The firm provides extensive personal data protection services ranging from preparing Terms of Use and Privacy Policies to complete compliance, aiming to adapt the company to the applicable regulations.

The Real Estate Law area aims to provide legal advice on all matters involving real estate and its peculiarities, acting directly from the purchase and sale of real estate to the regularization of large areas, developments and adaptation of properties to specific legislation.

With this area, the firm offers the possibility of organizing the succession of their assets in advance, being able to arrange the assets according to the owner's desire, preventing conflicts and considerably reducing costs with taxes and inventories.

In order to achieve tax efficiency for its clients in specific operations or in day-to-day activities, the firm promotes corporate restructuring actions in national and multinational groups, implementing foreign and Brazilian co-production structures, foreign investments in Brazil, and tax advice to industries with tax exemptions (cultural, sports, audiovisual, third sector areas, among others). This is done through drawing up tax plans to safely benefit from tax incentives and due application of tax legislation and precedents of the competent agencies; filing query processes with the tax authorities; and adopting administrative and judicial measures, aimed at recognizing the application of immunity rules to our clients.

The fast development of the digital market, in which innovative and disruptive business models are created daily, imposes the need for constant updating of industry professionals. Our team, made up of professionals with extensive experience in the areas of contracts, litigation, regulation and compliance in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) market, seeks to securely and quickly enable legal solutions for our clients.

Differentiated performance in the criminal sphere, aimed at serving individuals and legal entities in all spheres and instances of the Judiciary. The firm's performance involves acting in police investigations and criminal actions as a Defense or Prosecution Assistant, legal opinions and legal assistance in crimes that occur in the business sphere, such as: crimes against the environment, crimes against the tributal order, crimes against the social security order, crimes against the financial system, crimes against consumer relations, crimes against the economic order, crimes against the capital market, crimes against intangible property, money laundering, crimes against public administration, crimes of the bidding law, crimes perpetrated over the internet, crimes against honor, among other crimes provided for in the Penal Code and Extravagant Legislation.