Mattos Filho

Mattos Filho is a Brazilian law firm structured to provide clients with high-quality services in a wide range of practices and industries in a coordinated and integrated manner. The firm allocates the best resources to meet its clients’ specific demands, working in multidisciplinary teams, whenever necessary. This dynamic allows the firm to deliver tailor-made solutions to its clients and enhance the understanding of their businesses, while remaining a relevant partner. Headquartered in São Paulo, the firm has offices in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Campinas, New York and London.

The consistent and fast growth of the firm in the past 30 years was built over a strong and close relationship with its stakeholders. Mattos Filho is a leader in approximately 40 practice areas and industries, working continuously to ensure that all these practices are benchmarks for the market. The firm assists local and foreign clients in Brazil and Brazilian companies doing business abroad. Its clients include financial institutions, investors, multilateral agencies, investment funds, pension funds, insurers and reinsurers, non-profit organisations, government entities and public and private companies from all economic sectors.

Mattos Filho is committed to developing its professionals by giving them opportunities, investing in their continuous education by providing them with more technical and practical training in their work as lawyers. Furthermore, a great number of the firm’s attorneys studied in first-tier law schools and worked in prestigious law firms in the United States, Europe and Asia.

The firm has been recognised by Latin Lawyer as a “high level full service”. Chambers and Partners, which ranks and awards players in the legal world has elected Mattos Filho the “Brazilian Law Firm of the Year”, the sixth time the firm has received this award and is currently the law firm that has earned this recognition the most times.

Mattos Filho has been successful for several factors. The firm has been fortunate in investing in the expansion of its capacity in segments that develop a lot economically but also in terms of its demand for legal services, tracking Brazil’s development, and innovating on multiple fronts, as well as engaging in relevant initiatives to benefit society. Innovation and entrepreneurship have always been present in the life of the firm. Mattos Filho has always looked towards the future by searching for the best opportunities and making the necessary investments to achieve results and transparently communicate its goals and performance. In addition, by listening to clients and paying close attention to market shifts, it has been able to anticipate and identify trends. This way of working combined with its corporate structure and governance gives the firm fundamental tools to establish strategic thinking and planning.

Mattos Filho has pioneered pro bono work in Brazil and expanded the scope of the programme to include individuals in light of the new Code of Ethics and Discipline published by the Brazilian Bar Association in 2016. The law firm also added the protection and promotion of human rights, especially those related to women, refugees’ and LGBT rights. For sixth time, Mattos Filho won the Latin Lawyer Pro Bono Awards in 2020.