ABOUT
With a business-oriented mindset, LG&P is a law firm that offers legal solutions to the corporate market in the areas of Tax, Labor, Corporate, Credit Recovery, M&A and Digital Law, including consulting and litigation.
Founded in Campinas in 2009, the firm also has branches in the cities of São Paulo and Limeira, serving clients from all over Brazil in many market segments.
The work of its team of attorneys is guided by its own working methodology, titled IMPULSIONA-LG&P. The method is based on five pillars: client focus, business vision, technical qualification, data and technology, helping organizations to manage their demands and make assertive decisions, enabling business, saving companies, seeing beyond the problems, anticipating rights and obligations, and increasing the profitability of their partners.
The extensive know-how and results that the firm has been delivering for over 10 years have increasingly sparked interest from the market, positioning LG&P as the ideal partner to manage legal affairs for medium and large companies, whether national or multinational.
BEYOND LEGAL KNOWLEDGE
We rely on professional management that entails competencies beyond legal expertise. Here, administrative professionals of various specialties handle the firm’s activities, while attorneys are exclusively dedicated to its clients’ affairs and business.
Information Technology
Management
Financial
Client Relations
Marketing
Strategic Information Management
Compliance
People & Management
Legal Team
Executive Committee
LG&P’s structure allows its attorneys to dedicate themselves
Leadership
FERNANDO CESAR LOPES GONÇALES
Partner and Tax and Technical Director at LG&P
Fernando fell in love with the Law when he read his older sister’s legal books as a teenager, and it wasn’t long before he discovered his professional calling: to advocate, contrary to the his parents’ expectations, who are doctors.
He began his career working in the 5th Federal Justice Court of Campinas and, since then, he has delved ever deeper into the Law.
He graduated with a Law degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, completed a graduate program on Tax Law from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, and earned an MBA in Auditing and Tax Controller Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
He has worked in major law firms in Brazil and advised solid business groups, focusing primarily on corporate, tax and fiscal restructuring.
He worked before judges’ cabinets and with the Taxpayers’ Council (Conselho Administrativo de Recursos Fiscais – CARF) on preparing votes in Brasilia.
Passionate about academia and studies, he was invited by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation to teach Fundamentals of Private Law in a graduate level course. He was also graduate professor of Tax Law for Universidade Salesiana. He taught classes for preparatory courses for the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB – Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil) examination and has been a keynote speaker at many renowned universities.
After accumulating a few years as an attorney and many experiences in his professional career, he founded LG&P because he believed in a law firm where clients of all sizes could be treated with the same relevance.
With a correct stance, he takes the importance of the attorney for business corporations seriously and is categorical in demanding the best services and results for each client who seeks LG&P from his team.
He paused his academic activities — a project he intends to resume at some point in the future — to dedicate himself exclusively to the firm.
He is married to Milena, father to Maria Fernanda and Maria Beatriz, roots for the São Paulo team, likes rock, blues and Brazilian popular music.
He appreciates a good barbecue and likes to cook in his spare time, putting his pots, pans and spices to use.
CAIO FRANÇOSO PETITO
CEO
Caio is a businessman, father to Guilherme, and devoted to his family. He was captain of the Brazilian inline hockey team and a professional athlete for 15 years, during which time he participated in 12 world championships.
He started out in Law after his father advised him on which profession would bring him close to business. He began his career in law in the Business Structuring area at a renowned law firm, where he worked for two years.
He set up LG&P after a conversation with his friend Fernando at a bar table. They signed their first client right at the outset of LG&P’s operations and saw the firm grow sustainably, gaining strength and consolidating itself in the market.
An inspiration to the team, Caio makes a point of actively participating in the daily routine at the company. He bears the characteristics of the sport he played, considered one of the fastest in the world: dynamic, persistent, strategic and focused on results.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Law and a Graduate degree in Corporate Management from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He speaks English and Spanish fluently.
He conducts the firm’s M&A operations which, from 2017 to 2018 alone, amounted to over 150 million dollars.
Passionate about his job, Caio renews his energy by playing with his son and traveling with his family!
He still has lunch at the same bar that inspired LG&P. Ten years later, many important office decisions are still made at the same table.
MARIANA FIGUEIRÓ PAULINO
Legal Operations Manager
Mariana Figueiró Paulino is a professional with extensive experience in the legal and business world. Bachelor of Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, she has specializations in Business, Tax and Public Law.
Her work in large law firms and in a credit recovery company of relevance in the market allowed her to develop unique skills in negotiation, process structuring and team management. She has always assumed leadership positions in the areas in which she has worked and is recognized for her ability to efficiently manage teams and seek innovative solutions to complex challenges.
Like Caio Petito (CEO) and Fernando Lopes (Partner and Tax Director), Mariana values her family and seeks to balance her personal and professional life. This quest for excellence and passion for what they do are characteristics that unite them and make them inspiring leaders.
Married and mother of one daughter, since she was a child she always liked to organize flows and play at the office. Her passion for organization and planning is reflected in her professional work, in which she is recognized for her ability to efficiently structure and lead teams. With a career marked by important achievements, she has increasingly stood out in the legal market with her expertise in credit recovery, which she considers to have been an important differential in building her trajectory.
MANIFEST
To us, one of the essential pillars for economic prosperity of any society is a solid and robust business community.
In a country where labor laws are inflexible, the taxation system is incredibly complex and politics are unstable, risks and uncertainties make the daily routine very difficult for companies.
We believe that defending and ensuring the interests of organizations means contributing to a better society, because healthy businesses generate job opportunities and higher salaries, feeding a chain of growth that reverberates positively in the whole.
The LG&P team channels its calling and passion for the Law in favor of the corporate universe. With a business-oriented mindset, our team of specialized attorneys is guided by its own methodology, anchored in a strong focus on management and results. Based on jurimetrics — from the judiciary, consulting and litigation demands and market sectors —, we help our partners manage their demands and make assertive decisions. We thus enable business, save companies, see beyond problems, anticipate rights and obligations, and increase the profitability of our partners.
We are a young team and we exude everything that youth brings. We have the attitude and energy to overcome any obstacle. We are tuned in, connected, bold and inquisitive. We have an appetite for victories and new discoveries, which fills our daily routine with optimism, determination and excitement.
In times of excessive information and the speed at which it arrives, agility, technical qualification and understanding of the client’s business are just basic assumptions for ensuring quality legal service.
We go beyond! We go together! Because your cause is also our cause!
