Home / Brazil / Hotels & Leisure

Hotels and Leisure

Customized advisory for complex challenges

In the intricate landscape of the hospitality and tourism sector, property owners, investors, creditors, tourism service providers, and intermediaries, including travel agencies and tour operators, often encounter a range of daily challenges. These issues encompass corporate, fiscal, financial, and industry-specific topics, such as the regularization, establishment, and operation of tourism intermediaries, taking into account the challenges posed by the National Tourism Policy. 

Our expertise in the sector includes, but is not limited to, mergers and acquisitions; financial operations; establishment, compliance, and development of companies operating in the tourism sector, considering the guidelines set forth in applicable legislation; contracts and franchise relationships; tax structuring and planning; consumer relations; Civil, Labor, and Tax Consultancy; Commercial Promotions; Insurance and Reinsurance; and Economic Criminal Law and Compliance, in the hospitality and tourism sector, both nationally and internationally. 

Our professionals provide specialized consultancy because we were pioneers in creating a dedicated area exclusively for the Tourism sector. Our approach aims to achieve the best outcomes in each segment, offering effective and tailored solutions to the unique challenges faced by our clients.

Our Services: 

  • Mergers and Acquisitions: from due diligence to contract negotiation and obtaining regulatory approvals, we provide specialized support for buying and selling transactions in the tourism industry.
  • Financial Operations: We offer guidance on financial operations, from loans and financing to private equity investments, among others.
  • Establishment, Compliance, and Business Development: We assist tourism companies in all stages of their life cycle, from opening and regulatory compliance with government agencies to strategic and succession planning.
  • Contracts and Franchise Relationships: We provide risk analysis, negotiation of contractual clauses, and registration with relevant authorities.
  • Tax Structuring and Planning: optimization of the tax burden, succession planning, and consulting on international tax matters.
  • Consumer Relations: We offer defense in cases of service-related issues, compensation claims, negotiation of agreements with suppliers, as well as the drafting of terms and conditions for online platforms.
  • Civil, Labor, and Tax Consultancies: We provide comprehensive legal support, ensuring compliance with current legislation.
  • Commercial Promotions: with expertise in creating and implementing commercial promotions, we offer assistance in drafting regulations, risk analysis, obtaining necessary authorizations, and in advertising and marketing matters.
  • Insurance and Reinsurance: We conduct risk analysis, negotiate policies, handle indemnity actions, among other related tasks.
  • Compliance and Economic Criminal Law: implementation of compliance programs, employee training, internal investigations, and assistance in cases of government investigations.

Feed

22/11/2023
Lawyers consider the impact of Tax Reform on Tourism
Bruno Cação, head of Hotels and Leisure, and Rafaela Lora Franceschetto, head of Tax, analyze the tourism sector and the need to specify the activity to tax in the right category. Read the article here: Ad­vogados...
06/10/2023
Tourism and Tax Reform
Excluding tourism from the Tax Reform disrupts the entire chain The tourism sector should be considered one of the main ways to drive a country's economy, either through the dissemination of cultures...
23/03/2023
CMS European M&A Study 2023: Record number of deals last year despite challenging...
The CMS Corporate/M&A Group is pleased to launch the 15th edition of the European M&A StudyIt has been a challenging year for M&A in view of rising inflation and interest rates, slowing growth and increased...
28/02/2023
New EU sanctions against Russia
On 25 February 2023, one year after Russia started its invasion of Ukraine, the EU adopted its tenth sanctions package against Russia. Together with the existing sanctions the European Commission considers...
03/02/2023
On your radar | Issue 20 | Key employment issues to be aware of internationally
Welcome to the first edition of On your radar for 2023, which highlights expected employment law developments over the year ahead.Changes range from big picture concepts around future ways of working...
15/09/2022
CMS Annual Review of English Construction Law Developments: An International...
We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2022 edition of our internationally focused Annual Review of English Construction Law Developments. Now in its twelfth year, the Annual Review summarises...
14/09/2022
Avoid an advertising red card: Middle Eastern considerations for your Qatar...
As the 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar draws nearer, all eyes are on the Middle East, with this being the first time that the tournament has been hosted in the region. Brands around the world will undoubtedly...
08/09/2022
Managing Supply Chain Risk - An update on legal and strategic requirements...
In June 2021, BCG and CMS published a White Paper entitled “Managing Supply Chain Risk – A legal and strategic perspective”. In view of the rising number of laws obligating companies to prevent...
21/07/2022
CMS International Disputes Digest - 2022 Summer Edition
The summer edition of the CMS International Disputes Digest, a bi-annual publication that highlights, explores and analyses the latest trends in the global dis­pute-res­ol­u­tion sector, is now published...
13/04/2022
Putting the ‘S’ in ‘ESG’ - Lexicon of most important terms and phrases...
Companies across all sectors and markets are increasingly being evaluated on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) actions. ESG factors are now being used to determine the level of risk a company...
27/02/2022
Handling the new EU and UK sanctions against Russia
Since 2014, the EU and the UK have progressively imposed sanctions on Russia in response to the crisis in Ukraine. Following the latest events, both the EU and the UK, as well as many other countries...