Presentation

Real property has an important role in corporate and personal businesses and they require legal backing regardless of their size or value.

Isoldi Advogados is a small firm that renders customized and creative legal solutions to guide and support different types of real estate investments.

Quality is the cornerstone of our work combined with fast-paced and personalized service. We have built a trust path with our clients that helps us to pinpoint and anticipate their demands so that we can act efficiently in the defence of their interests.

Expertise

Our partner Maria Cecília Guimarães Isoldi Quirino has developed her career in the real estate practice for more than 22 years. She has participated in large media-attention real estate transactions of international impact and recognition. Her role as a real estate practitioner at a renowned full service firm has taught her the importance of having full integration with other legal practices when dealing with real estate matters.

Our client base is comprised of individual and corporate clients who benefit from this experience and receive the best possible specialized legal guidance.

Partner

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Maria Cecilia Guimarães Isoldi Quirino

She has solid experience in real estate law and all its related legal disciplines.

She has been involved in large real estate transactions and in the preparation and review of a myriad of real estate agreements, advising clients in purchase and sale transactions, residential and non-residential lease agreements, including built to suit and sale leaseback. She also counsels businesses concerning free lease agreements, real estate collaterals, construction contracts and atypical real estate contracts and their role in the regularization of urban and rural properties. She has acted on negotiations for real estate investment funds, public offers, debt security offers, securitizations, and provided real estate due diligence reports for M&A and capital market transactions.


She has been recognized by Chambers & Partners in 2010, 2011 and 2012 for her “technical know-how combined with responsive client service”.

She is a former partner of Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados where she started to build her real estate career in 1995. She left the firm as partner of the real estate practice, in 2011.

Education

Bachelor of Laws - Mackenzie University – 1993

Specialization, Real Estate Business – Fundação Álvares Penteado - 2002

Member of the Brazilian Bar, São Paulo – 1994

Member of the Real Estate Debate Forum

Articles

So geht's. Immobilienrecht in Brasilien, published by “Câmara de Comércio Brasil Alemanha (“AHK Brasil”), 2011.

Security Rights in Immovable Property in Brazil - Co-author of - “Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business”, Editora Kluwer, 2006.

Building a new Brazil: key challenges for the law of infrastructure - Co-author of “Real Estate guarantees: mortgages and provisional real estate transfer”, Editora Régia, 2011.

Languages

Portuguese and English

Our services

Real Estate

We handle highly sophisticated real estate transactions as well as less complex real estate demands. Our services include:

  • Legal assistance in sales and acquisition of real estate properties, preparation and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, exchange agreements, payment in kind and donation, including whenever necessary the examination and appraisal of applicable documents.
  • Preparation and negotiation of residential and non-residential lease agreements, including built to suit and sale leaseback.
  • Legal guidance in the formation of real estate developments such as: residential and commercial condominium, logistic warehouses, real estate subdivision development, shopping malls, hotels and apartment hotels.
  • Preparation and negotiation of rural lease agreements and rural partnerships.
  • Preparation and negotiation of real estate guarantees such as mortgages and fiduciary transfer.
  • Examination of documents to verify the legality of the properties and assistance for the correction and adjustment of the applicable documents.
  • Preparation and negotiation of usufruct, servitude/easement and surface rights agreements.
  • Assistance regarding the prevailing legislation for urban projects, subdivision and land occupation and real estate register law.
  • Assistance to foreigners in the acquisition of properties in Brazil in view of the restrictions imposed by Brazilian legislation.

Contract Law

We provide assistance in the preparation and negotiation of contracts in general, but especially real estate agreement, as follows:

  • Partnership agreements for real estate development projects.
  • Construction agreements (including turnkey construction agreement and administration, with or without a highest guaranteed price).
  • Brokerage agreements.
  • Confidentiality agreements.

Project Management

Our large experience in business transactions involving real estate law coupled with our solid experience in dealing with other practice areas has enabled us to offer a consulting service both to law firms and legal departments that need assistance and guidance in cases directly or indirectly related to real estate law. Our services include:

  • Preparation and negotiation of typical and atypical real estate agreements for real estate collaterals.
  • Assistance in due diligences, preparation of reports and legal opinions.
  • Assistance in succession planning involving real estate issues.

Contact

Telephone: +55 (11) 3031-3430

Address: Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima no. 2128 - conj. 304
Sao Paulo - CEP 01451-903