Ratto & Villaça Advogados

The Firm

WE ARE A LAW FIRM FOCUSED ON REAL ESTATE LAW.

We advise our clients in all the stages and matters involving their real estate business.

We provide legal services that combine technical quality and security with creativity and fast service, for a fair and reasonable price, aiming at the full satisfaction of our clients

We have a modern structure and are always investing in new technologies to provide increasingly agile and safe services to the clients

Organizational Culture

WE EXCEL AT BALANCING EXCELLENCE AND SPEED.

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Making the transactions feasible, based on the search of effective results for clients, guides our legal assistance.

We provide tailored advise to our clients, establishing a strong partnership with them.

We serve our clients in an expedite basis and are opposed to formalisms that plaster the realization of business.

We understand that positive or negative feedback from our clients is fundamental for the growth and improvement of the legal services provided.

We care about the quality of life of our staff and believe in a healthy balance between their professional activities and their moments of leisure and rest.

We believe that freedom leads to creativity, for which reason we maintain a cheerful and light work environment.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FROM CLIENTS

Irina Fontes Pissarra Cafasso

Head of Legal - M3 CAPITAL PARTNERS

Partnership that worked, on the eve of its 10th anniversary, as the result of impeccable work, taylor made, with vast experience in the real estate area and focused on the best interest of the client, thus providing the necessary security to make real estate business in the Brazilian scenario.

Ricardo Madeira

Founding Member of ALIANZA INVESTIMENTOS IMOBILIÁRIOS

Commitment and trust are two words that define the long-term partnership that Alianza has with Ratto & Villaça since the beginning of our operations. Composed by professionals with high know-how in the real estate sector, we have already had countless experiences in which the firm advised us with creative solutions that helped us to conclude several of our properties acquisitions.

Clarisse Etcheverry

Founding Member of EREA

Partnership, responsibility, competence, and creativity, as well as a great know-how of the real estate industry, which goes beyond the legal basis and allows discussions at the project level. It has been a pleasure to have Ratto e Villaça as a business partner.

Roberto Dib

Head, Structured Products and Securitization at TAG INVESTIMENTOS

We have been working with the Ratto e Villaça team for some time now and we continue to be impressed by the technical capacity, proactivity and commitment of the professionals.

Marcelo Moraes

New Business at RFM INCORPORADORA

We have always had very positive experiences with the Ratto e Villaça law firm, with experienced, proactive and agile lawyers in the development of works and search for solutions.

Diego Rodrigues

New Business Director of SUPERNOVA CAPITAL

We have Ratto e Villaça as strategic partners for our operations, expertise, and a lot of dedication for safe and efficient operations.

Luiz Augusto Faria do Amaral

Founding Member of TRX INVESTIMENTOS

I have worked with the founding partners of Ratto e Villaça since the foundation of TRX in 2007. Extreme professionalism, meeting the agreed deadlines and deep technical knowledge. One of our major business partners!

Practice Areas

Property regularization,understanding the rectification proceedings, assessment of the remaining area, in and out-of-court adverse possession, and records and registration updating.

Acquisitions, rentals and leasing of urban and rural properties,acting from the legal diligence to the preparation and discussion of the contractual drafts.

Structured real estate transactions,involving all the stages of built to suit, sales & leaseback, retrofit e shopping centers operations.

Real estate developments and subdivisions,taking part in acquisitions and sale of the properties, registration procedures and preparation and discussion of the legal documents required.

Real estate agreements in general(construction, loan for use, intermediation, option to purchase, association organization, and other agreements);

Real estate collateral,including the legal diligence and registration of the collateral with the relevant recorder of deeds.

Acquisitions of properties in auctions or distressed real estate assets,providing advice in the execution of transactions and the relevant risk assessment.

Credit operationswith real estate collateral, involving issuance of real estate credit bills, real estate receivables certificates, bank credit bills and debentures.

Structuring of specificpurpose companies, unincorporated joint ventures, investment funds, partnerships, and other vehicles required for performing real estate transactions.

Real estate litigation,promoting court and arbitration actions and measures related to any real estate litigations and discussions.

Team

Henrique Ratto Resende

Partner

Education:Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2003.
Specialization in Real Estate Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – GVLaw, 2010.

Education:Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2003.
Specialization in Real Estate Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – GVLaw, 2010.

Beatriz Villaça Avoglio de Souza Marcomini

Partner

Education:Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011.
Specialization in Real Estate Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo – PUC, 2016.

Education:Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2011.
Specialization in Real Estate Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo – PUC, 2016.

Luciano Faneca da Cunha Gonçalves

Partner

Education:Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2010.
Specialization in Civil Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – GVLaw, 2013.

Education:Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2010.
Specialization in Civil Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – GVLaw, 2013.

Monique Zago

Associate

Education:Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2014.

Education:Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2014.

Vinnicius Fernandes Santana

Associate

Education:
Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2022.
Postgraduate student in Real Estate Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – GVLaw.

Education:
Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2022.
Postgraduate student in Real Estate Law from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas – GVLaw.

Gabriel Meira Coelho Mascarenhas

Associate

Education:
Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Univesidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2023.
Specialization in Civil Law from the Univesidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, ongoing.

Education:
Bachelor of Laws from the School of Law of the Univesidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2023.
Specialization in Civil Law from the Univesidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, ongoing.

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Announcement – Ratto e Villaça Advogados

Dear Everyone, Many of you already know, but an official announcement was missing: after 15 years of partnership with my partners at BRTA, whom I thank for the whole history built together, I am joining the brilliant lawyer and friend Beatriz Villaça, in the dream of building a new law firm focused on real estate law. Ratto e Villaça Advogados was thus born, aiming to assist clients in all stages and issues involving real estate business. We will seek to improve the skills for which we are recognized by our clients: providing quality legal services, with creativity and speed, for a fair and reasonable cost. We wish to innovate: our intention is to develop and use digital tools that provide […]

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