The repercussions of corporate integrity have been reaching an increasingly wider scope, reinforcing the need for careful work of adequacy, compliance, and prevention in the most diverse disciplines, which include: anti-corruption, tax and regulatory, data protection, and labor.

The implementation of Compliance provides greater legal security to operations, protecting companies from a series of legal implications consisting of fines, public disclosure of infractions, and civil, administrative, and criminal penalties. It also aims to protect one of the company’s most important assets: its reputation.

The core is composed of professionals from the most diverse legal areas to develop actions and programs directed by subject matter, or with the complete integration of degrees, adapting their actions to the needs of each company.

Compliance and Data Governance

a) Initial Diagnosis and definition of the Governance model;
b) Communicational definitions of the program, assessment of technical requirements, and key stakeholders;
c) Review of contracts, policies, and notices regarding privacy, site, and cookies, with the establishment of rules compatible with the program developed;
d) Guidelines for business communication alignment and integration of information security policies and practices;
e) Data mapping, internal processes, and analysis of the product and service contract chain with regard to data;
f) Preparation of specific documents such as Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) and Legitimate Interest Assessment (LIA);
g) Training and workshops focused on management and employees.

Labor Compliance
a) Assistance in conducting labor audits;
b) Elaboration and analysis of labor contracts, agreements, and collective conventions;
c) Preventive advice to Human Resources departments and in the development of people management policies;
d) Preventive advice and legal guidance for regulatory inspections;
e) Analysis and recommendations in the development of affirmative policies and people management practices, inclusive and non-discriminatory, and others related to ESG;
f) Implementation of the Code of Conduct and indication of administrative routines;
g) Training and workshops focused on management and employees.

The ESG and Corporate Governance core is formed by specialists from various areas with multidisciplinary support to provide the necessary support to the entrepreneur in implementing and maintaining sustainable, social, and affirmative practices in the areas of labor, data protection, contracts, Energy Law, and corporate governance, investing in all the caution that is indispensable for the company’s reputation and helping it to obtain an advantageous position from the stakeholders’ perspective.

The goal of Assis Advocacia is to offer complete and customized solutions, meeting the needs of each company and making it uncomplicated to implement these practices in organizational structures.

To this end, we divide our activities into adequacy measures, prevention and planning, and crisis management, distributed among tax, fiscal, and regulatory solutions, people and labor management, ethics and integrity, contracts and commercial relations, corporate reputation management, and data governance and protection.

Adaptations

Prevention and Planning

a) Implementation of regulatory, tax, data, labor, and contractual compliance in a customized manner to the business activity, aiming at the effectiveness of the measures adopted;
b) Support in litigation management for legal departments with the adoption of pre- and post-litigation procedures, for the prevention of lawsuits or the definition of strategies integrating the composition and solution of conflicts, aiming at the fastest and least expensive results;
c) Expertise in Energy Law and deep knowledge of the regulatory rules applicable to the electricity sector, for the implementation of actions focused on distributed generation, obtaining tax benefits, support in structuring business and projects of sustainability and renewable energy;
d) Financial, tax, legal, and reputational risk assessment for investments;
e) Support in planning and structuring businesses focused on social entrepreneurship and helping the community;
f) Integrity in international commercial relations, with adjustment of activities and contracts to the national and foreign legislation.

Crisis Management

a) Defense in legal and administrative proceedings and filing of pertinent legal measures to manage and control the consequences of crises, publicizing infractions, and the press;
b) Definition of an aligned and coherent response with legal backing for all the affected vehicles and audiences;
c) Legal guidance on legal, civil, and administrative liability for the actions of the company and its managers;
d) Readjustment of Policies and implementation of the Code of Conduct, with the preparation of pertinent documents, indication of administrative routines, and training focused on management and employees as a way to correct and prevent new crises of the same origin.

With broad experience and specialized performance in the area, Assis Advocacia assists companies in the best solutions to the complex challenges imposed by the Brazilian tax system.

By keeping a constant focus on the main themes, normative updates, and judgments that enable more beneficial conditions to the taxpayer, and by submitting to totally customized analyses that allow the best adaptation to the sectors and reality of each company, the work is developed aiming to provide more legal security and sustainability to business.

With multi-specialized composition, the Tax Planning and Tax Recovery department is composed of professionals qualified to elaborate the best strategies, involving the handling of issues related to the corporate, contractual, foreign trade, labor, and regulatory areas, in addition to multidisciplinary support in the tax and customs areas, with a team with vast knowledge, able to develop a complete and safe planning, focused on compliance and use of legal advantages.

We act in the advisory and litigation modality, in the Municipal, State, and Federal spheres, with diagnostic analysis for the identification of revenues and remediation of irregularities, as well as with the entry of the pertinent judicial measures, relying on a wide repertoire of theses.

The work developed by the Tax Planning and Tax Recovery department includes, among other services:

a) Fiscal Compliance and review of accounting and fiscal procedures adopted by the company in the determination and collection of taxes;
b) Clarification of doubts and procedural adjustments, in the parameterization of systems and bookkeeping to the most correct legal interpretation;
c) Detection of possibly unused amounts and amounts unduly paid;
d) Proposition of appropriate legal measures to obtain eventual credits and reimbursements;
e) Legal and fiscal guidance to solve irregularities and optimize future procedures, through consultation, technical and legal opinion;
f) Regulatory and tax analysis of financial procedures – investments, capital markets, infrastructure -, corporate – mergers and acquisitions, corporate and estate planning – and digital market – cryptoactive, NFTs and e-commerce;
g) Regulatory analysis, guidance, and advice on the tax classification of goods, with the support of classificatory intelligence software, Classist;