OUR FIRM

Sociedade de Advogados Costa, Croix & Morrissy (SCCM LAW) is an internationally-oriented law firm. Our team of lawyers has a multidisciplinary and complementary profile that combines experience and innovation to assist foreign investors in their various projects in Brazil.

For over ten years, we have specialized in resolving the main issues related to foreign investments, including real estate transactions, company structuring and acquisition, succession planning, international taxation, and residence visas. Overall, we specialize in foreign currency operations.

Our firm is an associate member of the France-Brazil Chamber of Commerce (CCFB) in Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian Association of Experts in Migration and International Mobility (ABEMMI).

PRACTICE AREAS

  • CORPORATE LAW

    • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating general corporate documents, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, shareholder/member agreements, meeting minutes, and others.
    • Consultancy on corporate matters.
    • Legal opinions on various corporate issues.
    • Negotiation, structuring, and execution of share/ownership transfer transactions.
    • Structuring and negotiation of cross-border transactions.
    • Corporate restructuring operations, including transformation, merger, spin-off, and incorporation of companies.
    • Structuring consortium and corporate governance.
    • Legal auditing – Due diligence of companies in acquisition, sale, or fundraising processes, both in domestic and international markets, identifying potential contingencies and proposing mitigating measures.

  • TAX LAW

    • Administrative and judicial litigation; and
    • Tax issues consultancy.

  • CIVIL LAW (Consultancy and Litigation; Family and Successions Law)

    • Analysis of controversies existing about interpretation, performance, revision, validity, as well as duration of contracts;
    • Recovery and filing of credit disputes, more specifically in actions of enforcement, executions, judicial recoveries and bankruptcy;
    • Civil liability of private or state actions;
    • Conflicts existing in inheritances and wills;
    • Disputes about partner’s deliberations and corporate operations;
    • Property disputes in reference to expropriation actions, recovery of possession, eviction, as well as lease renewals;
    • Objection and protection of acts practiced in government contracts;
    • Legal questioning as to violations of diffuse, collective or individual rights, including civil investigations, public civil actions, collective and popular actions; and
    • Judicial or administrative defenses against sanctions applied by public agents and entities and against administrative acts in general.

  • Consumer Protection Law

    • Judicial litigation in defense of consumer; and
    • Consultancy on issues of consumer defense.

  • Real Estate Law

    • Structuring of real estate development, acquiring of real estate companies, condominiums and subdivision of real estate into building lots, whether urban or rural;
    • Structuring of real estate ventures in hotel, leisure or entertainment areas;
    • Drafting lease or construction contracts;
    • Drafting sale and acquisition contracts, exchange, giving in payment, constitution of mortgages, secured fiduciary sale of real estate property and others;
    • Judicial audit of real estate property;
    • Consortium and joint ventures structuring to act in real estate sector; and
    • Consultancy on real estate issues.

  • Migration Law

    • Visa obtainment;
    • Residence authorization or previous residence for immigrants who intend to establish themselves in Brazil, temporarily or definitely;
    • Renovation and alteration of residence periods
    • Naturalization;
    • Assistance in obtaining Brazilian documents; and
    • Drafting of Judicial actions for correction, supplying or restoration of civil registration for foreigners.

OUR TEAM

Alain Ribeiro Croix OAB/RJ 210.568

alain@sccmlaw.com.br See resume

Alain Ribeiro Croix OAB/RJ 210.568

Franco-Brazilian lawyer, fluent in English, graduated in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), with a specialization in Real Estate Law from PUC/RJ and in Real Estate Transactions. Former member of the Franco-Brazilian law firm Solere Advogados Associados from 2011 to 2022. He has experience in Corporate Law, particularly in foreign capital investments, immigration, and real estate.

alain@sccmlaw.com.br

Claudio Eduardo Barbosa Lemos Costa OAB/RJ 170.089 | OAB/SP 295.204

claudio@sccmlaw.com.br See resume

Claudio Eduardo Barbosa Lemos Costa OAB/RJ 170.089 | OAB/SP 295.204

Lawyer fluent in French, English, and Spanish, graduated in Law from Cândido Mendes University (UCAM), with a specialization in Tax Law from the Brazilian Institute of Tax Studies (IBET). Former member of the law firms Veirano Advogados, Campos Mello Advogados, Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados, and Solere Advogados Associados between 2003 and 2022. He has experience in Tax Law and Corporate Law.

claudio@sccmlaw.com.br

Isabel Morrissy Cardoso OAB/RJ 143.916

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Isabel Morrissy Cardoso OAB/RJ 143.916

Lawyer fluent in French and English, graduated in Law from Cândido Mendes University (UCAM). Former member of the law firms Tozzini Freire Advogados, Dannemann Advogados, Gouveia Vieira Advogados, Villemor Amaral Advogados, and Stockler Macintyre Advogados. She has experience in Civil Law, Preventive Litigation, and Consumer Law.

isabel@sccmlaw.com.br

Julia Bitencourt Caldas OAB/RJ 258.017

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Julia Bitencourt Caldas OAB/RJ 258.017

Lawyer fluent in English, graduated in Law from the Rio de Janeiro Law School – FGV Direito Rio. Intern at Almeida Advogados, Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados, and Schwartz Nicolay Advogados. She has experience in Civil Law and Administrative Law.

julia@sccmlaw.com.br

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