The practice of SPLAW in the Entertainment arena includes:

• Structuring of projects involving copyright, throughout the protection chain, management of works collections and other intangible assets, any and all types of intellectual property;
• Solid experience in negotiations on the clearance of rights involving freedom of expression, personality rights, third party rights, analysis and risk review in materials for audiovisual, musical, visual arts, advertising, editorials and/or combined arts productions for conventional media, platforms and new media;
• Legal advice, structuring and implementation of several businesses and drafting of assignment, distribution, licensing, editing, management, service provision, partnerships, sponsorship and any type of contracts on musical, literary, audiovisual or combined arts works;
• Implementing business models involving artistic content in general, assisting talents, artists, digital influencers, youtubers, their agents, online platforms channels, gamers, computer game studios and related distribution;
• Defining marketing, media and advertising strategies, drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, in cases of Legal Marketing, advice to advertising agencies, advertisement film producers, vehicles and advertisers, as well as review and approval of commercial promotions and contests;
• Practicing, guiding and managing culture-related regulation, mechanisms to encourage culture, within the scope of the National Film Agency – ANCINE, National Advertising Self-Regulation Council – CONAR – Secretariat for Fiscal, Monitoring, Energy and Lottery (SEFEL), and other public bodies and control, in the exercise of regulatory, supervisory and fostering audiovisual competence and other correlates; and
• Courses, workshops, in-company training, lectures and conferences on projects related to all the topics described.

Pharma. Biopharma. Genes. Medtech. OTC. RX. APIs. Clinical Trials. AI. Biologics. Organic. Natural. Functional. Super Foods. SPLAW provides unparallel counselling and pioneer approach when it comes to the legal, regulatory and compliance matters affecting such and other challenges in the Food & Drug Administration-regulated sphere. SPLAW advises clients in all classes of matters, including by:

• Creating, deploying and managing regulatory plans and strategies.
• Securing product registrations or clearances from regulatory agencies.
• Reviewing product labels, labeling, and marketing materials.
• Preparing, implementing and reviewing standard operating procedures.
• Training and supporting professional advancement of internal teams.
• Supporting efforts as relates to drafting and negotiation of partnership agreements and all sort of transactions.
• Representing clients with industry associations inside and outside Brazil, as well at the WHO and PAHO levels.
• Working with in house team to maintain appropriate controls for company legal documents.
• Working with healthcare laws and industry practices.
• Counselling on all market access-related matters, such as pricing, reimbursement, risk sharing and public private goals.
• Privacy counseling related to patient support programs.
• Counselling on advertising and promotion, funding, compliance, privacy, policy development, and training.
• Advising on clinical development of investigational compounds.
• Designing regulatory strategy for new products and line extensions, Brazilian FDA (ANVISA) and life cycle matters.
• Advising on all clinical trial-related matters, including expanded access programs, post-trial and ethical matters.
• Providing real world support for official inspections, GxP compliance, recalls, clinical trial reporting and data sharing.
• Drafting responses to proposed laws and regulations, FDA guidance documents, and industry group policy positions.

Adapting and implementing effective and cross functional Data Privacy and Protection Compliance programs, including by:

• developing, adapting and carrying out policies and procedures addressing needs of EU, US in partnership with foreign firms and Brazilian Personal Data Protection Laws;
• acting as outside Personal Data Privacy & Compliance Officers (DPO);
• providing daily and complete counselling for all business, new businesses and products, personal data privacy and protection support to both local and international legal, regulatory, business conduct, sales, HR, facilities and business teams;
• assessing and acting upon data-related issues, including data breach incidents, reporting and mitigating strategies;
• creating, implementing compliance programs and training data-privacy and compliance -looking staff; and
• monitoring, auditing and enforcing internal rules and policies;

Strong democracies, with shared values and adding underlying commercial goals. Highly skilled people and technology meeting business friendly and technology aficionados. Trade bridges connecting the UK to Brazil keep growing and maturing. SPLAW have been proudly counselling UK enterprises and Governmental initiatives, such as those promoted by the UK Intellectual Property Office. The services provided include legal consultancy in the Intellectual Property, Innovation, commercial, administrative, employment and regulatory spheres. Our clients include UK companies with activities in the Food, Life Sciences & Healthcare and Technology sectors. SPLAW keeps a highly active program of interaction with UK-based officials and initiatives and continuously visit the UK and hold events that highlight the roads leading to an even brighter pathway between our great nations.

International relations are essential and companies are venturing every further from the national arena in search of new opportunities in other countries. This is also the case for Swiss companies or individuals who carry out activities in Brazil. For them, it is essential to understand the legal and cultural backdrop of Brazil, how the economic and tax system works, as well as the specific characteristics of each sector in order to be able to make an accurate assessment of their own interests in negotiations with new partners, workers, suppliers and clients. SPLAW offers its clients knowledge of the two legal systems, allowing a bilateral analysis and act as a bridge between the two sides in order to foster understanding. SPLAW team is highly connected to and familiar with the French universe of Swiss business and enterprises, handling matters in fluent cultural and linguistic skills, as addressed by French speaking senior associates. The services provided include legal consultancy in the commercial, administrative, employment and regulatory spheres. Our clients include Swiss companies with activities in the Food, Life Sciences & Healthcare and Technology sectors. SPLAW keeps a highly active program of interaction with Swiss-based officials and initiatives, such as the Swiss Global Enterprise and the Swiss Consulate. Members of SPLAW lived and continuously visit Switzerland and share a comprehensive understanding of the Country, its Cantons and specific requirements. For Brazilian clients, SPLAW provides in-depth assistance in connection with matters presented at several of the Geneva-based forums, such as the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization.

SPLAW advises Israeli entrepreneurs, official agencies, trade associations, investors, financial institutions and companies looking to raise capital, develop markets, protect their intellectual property, make investments and leverage business opportunities in Brazil, as well as Brazilian companies looking to enter into the Israeli market, partner with Israeli companies or tap into Israeli expertise. Our Israel Desk includes lawyers and professionals who lived and studied in Israel, that speak Hebrew and who have a broad range of experience working with Israeli companies, a deep understanding of Israeli business and legal culture and long-standing personal and professional relationships with Israel. SPLAW proudly maintains the top Brazilian legal practice dedicated to address the needs of Israeli enterprises, including startups, Kibbutz-managed, top enterprises, State-owned companies and high net individuals. Our team works closely with several private and public Israeli enterprises, the Israel-Brazil Chamber of Commerce, the Economic and Trade Mission of the State of Israel to Brazil and the Brazilian Embassy in Tel Aviv. We place great importance on Israel and have a cross-departmental team focused on Israel-related work. Our Israel business development initiative includes a program of regular visits to Israel, internship for Israeli-certified attorneys and an ongoing program of meetings in Sao Paulo and elsewhere in Brazil with other Israel-facing market participants, including via energetic work with the Israel-Brazil Chamber of Commerce. The team has up-to-date and in-depth knowledge and experience of the country’s history, economy and politics.

Brazilian and US trade relationship is exceptional. Similar standards, references and underlying values. Yet, distinct business environments, legal systems and regulatory patterns require special approach. Members of SPLAW lived and studied in the US while continuously work with colleagues, law firms, investors and US companies. SPLAW values the US strengths and guides US clients through the challenges and opportunities of the Brazilian legal, regulatory and compliance universes. From their US living and studying experiences, members of SPLAW work with US clients and ensure proper and business-driven translation of practices, attitudes, regulations and trends. SPLAW keeps a highly active travel and visit agenda, which focus on meeting in loco with US clients, Officials and trade associations. SPLAW sees the US market, both in itself and as a gateway to Central and North Americas, as a broad base for an interesting range of opportunities for activities of Brazilian companies expanding their activities as well as a range of co-operations with local entities (both government and private). SPLAW keeps close and strong ties to the leading US law firms practicing in the IP, Life Sciences and Technology arenas, which enables us to advise multinational, US-based clients in a variety of fields. SPLAW is an active advocate of Brazilian interests in the US and proudly sponsors the activities of the Brazilian Industry Coalition (BIC) in Washington.

Legal and strategic advising clients on Labor, Benefits and Compensation-related matters on day-to-day issues and specific matters related to executive and employees compensation, benefits, variable compensation, Profit Sharing Plan, stock options, employment and service agreements,governance and regulatory issues; union-related matters discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. In Labor sphere, SPLAW actively works on:

• Labor law advisory, in pre-litigation scenarios aimed at avoiding lawsuits, including strategic labor procedures review;
• Consultancy for HR departments in several labor topics;
• Creating and implementing Manual of Conduct and Internal Policies; training staff and managers aimed at securing compliance to good practice and Brazilian Labor Laws;
• Guidance for employees hiring and termination, including international transfers of expatriate employees, Brazilian or foreign;
• Guidance on outsourcing services and suppliers contracting;
• Profit Sharing Plan implementation compliant with Brazilian Labor Laws;
• Union representation classification consultancy; agreements negotiation and conduction with the Unions;
• Defense in individual and collective labor lawsuits;
• Defense of clients’ interest in relation to inspections and fines imposed by inspection agencies;
• Guidance on Compliance Investigation (labor-related matters); and
• Legal due diligence and consultancy on labor aspects involved in M&A operations in Brazil.

Acting as the first point of Government Affairs & Legislative Policy contact between the Brazilian authorities and the client, including by:

• understanding and translating the attitudes and actions of authorities;
• providing full assistance for responding accurately and knowledgeably,
• creating and using legal opportunities within the system to provide position statements and opinions to current, proposed regulation;
• attending and representing clients in public audiences, trade associations and hearings;
• implementing intelligence actions; and
• tracking changing legislation in the fields in which the client wishes to distribute its applications, products and services.

Adapting and implementing effective and cross functional Business Conduct & Compliance programs, including by:

• developing, adapting and carrying out policies and procedures;
• acting as outside Compliance Officers;
• providing daily and complete counselling for all business conduct, anti- corruption or compliance-related support to both local and international legal, regulatory, business conduct and business teams;
• assessing and acting upon business conduct issues;
• creating, implementing compliance programs and training compliance-looking staff; and
• monitoring, auditing and enforcing internal rules and policies;

Advising on a wide range of Transactional Matters, including:

• drafting and reviewing internal policies;
• negotiating and managing contracts and a full range of legal documents;
• providing contract interpretation and counseling;
• providing legal advice and resolving significant legal matters to support complex, strategic contractual relationships related to collaborations and other alliances;

Regulatory skills. Legal experience. Market knowledge. SPLAW advises startups, multinational companies, and tech developers on compliance, regulatory and commercial matters concerning technology regulations and standards challenging virtually all technology sectors, mainly in the Life Science & Healthcare, Food and Information and Communication arenas. Regularly, SPLAW provides counselling on:

• Technology regulations and compliance standards, policies and upcoming legislation.
• Product liability, data breaches and related data, technology-driven incidents.
• Technology compliance monitoring and training.
• Drafting, reviewing and updating all applicable legal documentation for deployment of technology.
• Assistance with filing for industry self-regulatory certifications.
• Advising on IP matters

In a globalized trading world, countries and companies increasingly concerned about environmental trade barriers, as weel as the challenging of maintaining and creating sustainable businesses complying with the vast national and international environmental laws. SPLAW assists our clients clearly and objectively in identifying, anticipating and mitigating environmental business risk, providing legal certainty for the sustainable business development and use of the Brazilian natural resources. We help our clients in the management of environmental and corporate reputation crisis, by building relationship with communities. Investors, environmental control agencies and State Public Prosecution Offices. We believe in a consensual of conflicts, avoiding financial costs and uncertainty of litigation proc

• Representing clients in complex and routine Environmental, Biodiversity and Natural Resources-related litigation and rulemaking matters, with an emphasis on defending clients in administrative and judicial litigation with the Brazilian Public Prosecution Offices, Ministry of Environment, Environmental Offices and other authorities overseeing environment, pollution control and biodiversity-related matters, including negotiations of Conduct Adjustment Agreements, litigating challenges, securing environmental licenses permits, handling cases for remedial costs and natural resource damage claims, representing companies and trade associations and defending against prosecutions by environmental control bodies.
• We advise our clients on assessing environmental risks and contingencies related to contracts of production and supply, mergers and acquisitions. assisting in the management of environmental compliance in supply chains and complex business negotiations.
• For the agribusiness sector, SPLAW assists in complying with the rules of the Forestry Code, aiming to take advantage of the forest, industrial and bio economics opportunities conferred by the sustainable use of Brazilian forests and biomes, including the Amazon. SPLAW confers legal advice on the formatting, development and negotiation of greenhouse gas emission reduction projects, according to the rules of the Paris agreement and the National Policy on climate change.

SPLAW brings a fresh, worldly and highly practical approach to protecting, negotiating and enforcing IP. SPLAW counsel clients in connection with:

• Drafting, reviewing and implementing IP protection strategies for Brazil, based on the best Intellectual Asset Management practices.
• Prosecuting and filing for IP rights with the Brazilian PTO (INPI) and other IP-oriented authorities aimed at securing property rights for trademarks, patents, designs, plant varieties, domain names and associated contracts, licenses and agreements.
• Counselling on and Managing all sort of IP-related conflicts, as associated with the granting of IP rights, including those Brazilian IP matters managed by the UPOV, WIPO and other alternative dispute resolution forums.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating virtually all sort of agreements, licenses, contracts associated with the use, transfer, license of IP rights, as well as all formalities required to ensure their enforceability, as well as tax and regulatory compliance.
• Drafting, reviewing and implementing virtually all sort of IP-related standards, terms and conditions and other policies, procedures and patterns required to ensure IP and technology regulatory compliance.
• Designing and implementing anti-counterfeiting and other IP enforcement actions, mainly in the technology, digital and cloud-based spaces.
• Drafting, adapting and implementing policies, procedures and standards aimed at securing local compliance to the GDPR, HIPAA and the Brazilian GDPR (LGPD);
• Actively acting on ad hoc DPO roles;
• Routine and strategic counselling to all privacy and data protection related, including in connection with assessing compliance of new business models to privacy laws.
• Actively acting on data breaches-related routines and data crisis management matters.
• Designing and implementation of LGPD compliance programs, including for the purposes of monitoring, audit and internal enforcement of rules, patterns and procedures