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Ongoing Business Counsel
Standing legal counsel that knows your business, sets priorities, and supports the decisions that move it forward.
Explore our capabilitiesCuritibaEstablished 2017Serving clients throughout Brazil
Ongoing Business Counsel
Outside counsel. Inside the decision.
Ongoing Business Counsel is a long-term relationship with outside counsel. It does more than answer isolated questions: it stays close to the company, retains the context behind earlier choices, and keeps future decisions connected to a coherent strategy.
Continuity avoids rebuilding institutional context with every new matter and helps identify risk and opportunity earlier.
Present
Sustain
We review operations, contracts, and decisions before implementation and coordinate with internal teams.Future
Anticipate
We monitor change, risk, and opportunity so the company can act before urgency makes the decision.Capabilities
One team. Every decision viewed from every relevant angle.
Tax, corporate matters, contracts, employment relationships, and commercial disputes are handled as an integrated whole—because the business does not divide itself along legal practice lines.
01Tax & PlanningTax decisions reviewed before implementation, with legal analysis of the underlying business activity and its financial implications.
- Tax advice and legal review of tax, accounting, and financial practices
- Annual planning and review of tax regimes, assumptions, and workflows
- Monitoring Brazil’s Tax Reform and its contractual and operational effects
- Review of tax notices, assessments, credits, incentives, risks, and opportunities
02Corporate, Governance & Commercial ContractsLegal structures that support business decisions, corporate relationships, and the agreements that keep a company operating.
- Corporate governance, resolutions, organizational documents, and shareholder agreements
- Formalization of corporate acts arising from business decisions
- Drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements
- Protection of trademarks, software, confidential information, and other intellectual assets
03Labor & EmploymentPreventive support for management and HR in conducting employment relationships with clarity and consistency.
- Support from hiring through termination
- Classification of employees, independent contractors, and other engagement models
- Employment agreements, internal policies, workplace rules, and collective bargaining instruments
- Working time, compensation, benefits, disciplinary measures, and union relations
04Commercial Disputes & Consumer MattersPrevention and response in commercial relationships that may lead to default, liability, or dispute.
- Guidance on relationships with customers, suppliers, partners, and creditors
- Review of offers, warranties, service practices, and cancellations
- Notices, complaints, negotiations, collections, and damages claims
- Litigation triage and proceedings before consumer protection authorities
05Brazilian Government Contracts & Administrative LawMatter-specific counsel for companies contracting, negotiating, or responding to Brazilian public authorities.
- Review of tender documents, qualification requirements, proposals, challenges, and appeals
- Government contracts, amendments, extensions, and verification of work performed for payment
- Adjustments to restore the original economic balance of government contracts and matters involving potential sanctions
- Inspections and administrative proceedings
How We Work
At every stage
Know the business. Set priorities. Follow through.
Clear priorities
We organize matters and maintain a record of the measures approved by management.
Direct coordination
We work with leadership and with tax, accounting, finance, people, and technology teams.
Information before urgency
We communicate relevant developments and bring risks and opportunities to the company’s decision-making process.
Industries
The stakes of a decision change with the industry.
We advise companies across different value chains, commercial models, and regulatory environments. In each industry, contracts, tax, employment, consumer, and data matters combine in distinct ways.
Events, Entertainment & Culture
Music events, exhibitions, food and beverage operations, and artistic activities, with attention to licenses, agreements, contracting, and taxation.
Manufacturing
Manufacturers of safety equipment, apparel, packaging, food, and textile products, with tax, regulatory, contractual, and employment matters.
Technology, Telecommunications & Software
Telecommunications and software businesses, including commercial relationships, data protection, taxation, and development and licensing agreements.
Credit, Data & Customer Contact Operations
Credit bureaus and consumer contact operations involving consumer law, data protection, data-subject rights, and dealings with Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD).
Healthcare & Regulated Professions
Professional entities formed by physicians, dentists, engineers, and architects, subject to tax regimes and professional rules specific to each activity.
Consulting, Training & Business Services
Consulting, training, and other service businesses, with attention to contractual, tax, and employment structures.
The Firm
Business judgment. Partners at the table.
Founded in Curitiba in 2017, Monroe Advogados advises Brazilian and international companies through partner-led, integrated counsel.
Founding Partner · Brazilian Tax
Thiago Monroe
LL.M. in Tax Law, Insper. More than 15 years advising companies.
Managing Partner · Corporate & Governance
Camila Monroe
LL.M. in Corporate Law, Insper. More than 10 years advising companies.Legal Team
The work is shared. Accountability is not.
01
Thaís Winkler Jung
Legal Practice Coordinator
Professor of Legal Practice and Civil Procedure since 2003. More than 25 years advising companies.
02
Juliana Santos
Employment Practice Coordinator
Brazilian-qualified attorney and professor, with postgraduate studies in Labor and Employment Law, Labor Procedure, and Social Security Law at EMATRA. More than 15 years handling employment matters, collective bargaining, and inspections by Brazil’s Labor Prosecution Service.
03
Paulo Ferrarini
Wealth & Succession Planning
Holds a law degree from OPET (2004). More than 20 years of experience in corporate structuring, conflict mediation, and succession planning.
04
Renata Cremona
Dispute Resolution & Corporate
05
Ana Zadra
Dispute Resolution & Contracts
06
Vitor Salgado
Dispute Resolution & Intellectual Property
Monroe Advogados
Some decisions do not come with a second chance.
The Monroe StandardIn Memoriam
In MemoriamEvaldo Matthes (1930–2026)
Born to German immigrants, Evaldo lived his 96 years by two principles: family comes first, and your word is your bond. He spent his entire working life in construction—all of it with a single real estate developer—and never took a vacation: he used that time to take on additional building work, because there was always a purpose greater than his own comfort.
He did not teach values by talking about them. He showed them with his hands, every day, for nearly a century.
The culture of this firm—honesty, courage, and a steadfast commitment to our clients’ interests—did not come from a handbook. It came from him. He was grandfather to our founding partner, Thiago, and grandfather in every way that matters to our managing partner, Camila. What he built in concrete, we strive to honor in every matter entrusted to us. This is who we are. This is how we work. We carry his standard forward, whatever it asks of us—today and always.
With gratitude,Thiago and Camila
We do not end these pages with a call to action.
Only with gratitude for those who came before us—and a commitment to leave those who follow an example worth carrying forward.
Our legal thinking is collected in Monroe Perspectives.