Expertise

Private Law
Legal advice on matters pertaining to Private Law, such as contracts, civil liability and personality rights.

Family Law
Legal advice on matters pertaining to Family Law, such as divorce, sharing of assets, regulation of cohabitation rights and custody of minors.

Succession Law
Legal advice on living wills, succession planning, wills and on procedures for judicial and extrajudicial succession.

Consumer Law
Legal advice on administrative and judicial proceedings arising from consumer relations, such as contracts and civil liability.

Administrative and regulatory Law
Legal advice on administrative and judicial proceedings on matters of Administrative Law, especially those related to the regulatory agencies.

Personal data protection
Legal advice on the analysis of draft laws and administrative rules on the subject; elaboration of standard contractual clauses, privacy policies and codes of conduct; implementation of privacy impact assessments and compliance analysis of data processing activities.

Regulation of electronic commerce
Analysis of draft laws and administrative rules on the subject; preparation of standard form contracts for e-commerce purposes; elaboration of terms of use for e-commerce platforms; and compliance analysis of e-commerce operations.

Internet regulation
Analysis of draft laws and administrative rules on the subject; compliance analysis of services offered online; legal risk assessment for new services/products.

International and migration law
Brazilian visas and regularization of foreigners’ legal status before the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Police; legal advice for obtaining Brazilian, Portuguese and Italian citizenships.

Audiovisual law
Legal advice on projects regarding the production of audiovisual works projects, including acting before public agencies, financial institutions and ANCINE; legal representation in administrative sanctioning proceedings; and legal advice on entering into and monitoring compliance with Terms of Adjustment of Conduct before ANCINE.
Services
Advice, Assistance, Mediation and Legal Representation in Litigation and Arbitration.

The Firm
Borges and Schumacher was founded in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro.
BORGES and SCHUMACHER was founded in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro. The firm is the result of a result of a partnership between lawyers with different expertise and profiles. Thanks to this diversity, our team is able to offer services not only in more traditional areas of law, such as civil, family, succession, consumer and administrative-regulatory, but also in areas that have gained relevance in the legal world more recently, such as the protection of personal data and the regulation of e-commerce and the internet.
The combination of the partners’ dynamic and academic profiles and their breadth of expertise created a firm which is able to offer to its clients personalised services which include legal advice, legal strategies and dispute resolution solutions either related to litigation and arbitration in the abovementioned fields. In the field of family and succession laws, our firm is also prepared to provide services related to mediation.
Contact
Av. Nilo Peçanha, 50, sala 1704 – Centro
CEP: 20020-906
Rio de Janeiro – RJ
contato@borgeseschumacher.com
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