Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution

KVTS Litigation team represents the clients in disputes involving the most diverse areas of law, notably corporate law, contractual law, civil liability, and family and succession law.

Among the professionals’ areas of expertise, the following stand out:

• Dispute prevention;
• Legal opinions and affidavits on Brazilian procedural law;
• Civil, tort, and contractual and non-contractual liability lawsuits;
• Corporate disputes;
• Enforcement actions;
• Class actions;
• Lawsuits involving possession, ownership or condominium property and rights of any nature;
• Family and succession dispute resolution;
• Mediation.

The firm also offers extensive advice, assurance and technical support to represent national and foreign clients in institutional or ad-hoc arbitral proceedings, in Brazil or abroad, including:

• Recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards;
• Enforcement of domestic arbitral awards;
• Preparatory and incidental judicial measures during the arbitral proceedings;
• Review and advice on the elaboration of dispute resolution clauses in contracts;
• Development, negotiation, and enforcement of the arbitration agreement;
• Direct or co-counsel representation for clients who want alternative methods of dispute resolution involving contracts of large-scale construction, energy, infrastructure, telecommunications, venture capital and corporate disputes;
• Preparation of arbitration proceedings, both in Brazil and abroad.

The team has highly qualified professionals to handle complex litigation, with extensive experience in demands with transnational repercussions (cross-border litigation).