About us

Our Firm

Since 2009, we have been providing strategic, tailored legal solutions aligned with each client’s business objectives.

We believe that legal decisions directly influence business stability, growth, and long-term sustainability. For this reason, we combine technical legal expertise with business insight and a practical understanding of the industries in which our clients operate.

We advise Brazilian and international companies on matters governed by Brazilian law, providing both advisory and dispute resolution services related to risk prevention, business structuring, and the representation of clients before Brazilian administrative authorities and courts.

We value long-term relationships built on transparency, responsiveness, accountability, and trust, always striving to deliver legally sound and strategically effective solutions focused on the long-term sustainability of our clients’ businesses.

 

Our Team:

Menezes Emídio is led by its founding partner, Gisele Gonçalves de Menezes Emídio, and partner Welson Maciel Matos, whose practice combines legal expertise, strategic insight, and close involvement in addressing each client’s business needs.

Under their leadership, our team provides integrated legal services across advisory, regulatory, and dispute resolution matters involving business operations, tax law, corporate structures, and contracts. Our practice also encompasses international trade and customs law, including import and export transactions and customs clearance, as well as competition law, regulatory law, and complex administrative and judicial disputes, all within the framework of Brazilian law.

We believe that effective legal solutions require sound legal analysis, a practical understanding of the business environment, and an approach aligned with the economic and operational impacts of every decision.

Our firm is committed to providing personalized and responsive legal services, fostering long-term relationships built on trust, strategic risk assessment, and the development of legally sound solutions that support the sustainable growth and continuity of our clients’ businesses in Brazil.

Our Principles

Mission

To provide strategic, legally sound, and tailored legal solutions aligned with each client’s business, institutional, and economic objectives.

Vision

To contribute to the sustainable growth and continuity of businesses through legal solutions that combine legal certainty, strategic insight, operational efficiency, institutional responsibility, and long-term business resilience.

Values

Our practice is guided by ethics, transparency, loyalty, discipline, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

We value relationships built on trust, accountability, and transparency in the assessment and communication of legal risks, enabling our clients to make well-informed, legally sound, and strategically sustainable decisions.

We believe that legal excellence requires not only technical expertise, but also commitment, close client relationships, and a practical understanding of each client’s business needs.

Our Team

Gisele Menezes

Founding Partner

Welson Matos

Partner