AREAS OF PRACTICE

We are specialists in complex and strategic litigation

  • Corporate Restructuring

    WK’s Restructuring team develops strategic processes based on:

    • Comprehensive and multidisciplinary advisory in transactions and operations involving corporate restructuring and reorganization, in close collaboration with the Contracts team;
    • Full assistance to creditors, investors, financing agents, funds, bondholders/noteholders in judicial reorganization proceedings, out-of-court restructurings, and insolvency proceedings.
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  • Dispute Prevention

    WK believes that preventive litigation bring significant benefits to clients by drastically reducing their involvement in legal disputes, resulting in both financial and time savings, and allowing them to focus on their business rather than on conflict resolution. To this end, our professionals are dedicated to:

    • Identifying risk situations and defining and implementing strategies to mitigate impact and losses for clients and third parties;
    • Advising on dispute resolution through settlements, ensuring that clients’ rights and interests are protected;
    • Direct involvement in negotiating alternative solutions to resolve disputes;
    • Acting in mediation as an effective and constructive method for resolving disputes involving both individuals and legal entities. WK’s team serves as mediators and/or assists clients in selecting one or more mediators and/or mediation institutions, participating in the designated meetings, and drafting documents to formalize the agreed settlement.
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  • Contracts

    WK offers clients a highly qualified team with expertise in international standards and the ability to analyze all types of contracts. Our professionals stand out in the following areas:

    • Negotiation, drafting, and review of strategic contracts and/or those related to the core business of domestic or foreign companies;
    • Review of contracts to ensure compliance with Brazilian legal requirements;
    • Drafting and review of routine contracts;
    • Development of contract management policies and monitoring of contractual compliance;
    • Legal opinions and analysis of contracts and specific contractual clauses;
    • Specialized contract due diligence.
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  • Civil Litigation

    WK stands out in the civil litigation field for its ability to advise clients on a wide range of complex matters, providing both advisory and contentious services in the following areas:

    • Working closely with the Contracts team to draft and review contractual instruments and structure guarantees, aiming to protect clients against potential future disputes;
    • Issuing legal opinions involving the application and interpretation of Brazilian law, particularly in Civil Law, Payment Systems, Corporate Law, and Civil Procedure;
    • Defining strategy and handling judicial litigation across a broad range of legal areas, including Contracts, Payment Systems, Construction, Civil Liability, Real Estate, Administrative Law, Energy, Corporate Law, Capital Markets, and Antitrust, always guiding clients toward swift, effective, and non-contentious solutions;
    • Advising and assisting clients in negotiations aimed at achieving a definitive and advantageous settlement of disputes.
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  • ARBITRATION

    WK team has extensive experience in handling arbitration proceedings involving complex issues across a wide range of industries, including construction, services, energy, corporate law, logistics, agribusiness, and others, before both domestic and international arbitration centers.

    • Close collaboration with the client’s internal team to gather information, documents, and witness statements that support the legal position being advanced;
    • Definition of the procedural strategy to be adopted in the arbitration to best defend the client’s interests;
    • Full management of the arbitration proceedings, from the pre-arbitration phase through to the issuance of the final award by the arbitral tribunal;
    • We also represent clients in the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards before the Brazilian courts.
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