Rural Law

Agrarian and Agribusiness

The growing professionalization of agribusiness in Brazil has made it one of the world’s leading producers. In this scenario, the need arises for the operator of the right to act in order to assist in the resolution of doubts and disagreements involving the area of agribusiness. Visualizing the prevention of lawsuits, Ribeiro Cervantes Advocacia Rural offers rural producers, credit unions and rural entrepreneurs mechanisms and services in order to provide legal certainty to their businesses, always aiming at cost reduction and risk reduction in contracts. and financial operations to be carried out.

Among the activities developed by the office in this area are:

  • Drafting of agricultural contracts, in their economic exploitation, such as through rural lease, rural partnership, among others; or even, in the sophisticated structuring of financial operations, among them the Rural Product Certificates – CPR, the Export Prepayment, the Agribusiness Credit Rights Certificate – CDCA, the Agricultural Deposit Certificate – CDA, the Agricultural Warrant – WA , the Agribusiness Letter of Credit – LCA, the Agribusiness Receivables Certificate – CRA, the Agribusiness Credit Note – NCA;
  • Instrumentalization of formalization of guarantees commonly used in these operations such as agricultural and livestock pledge, fiduciary alienation and mortgages of rural properties, fiduciary assignment of credit rights, surety, surety, promissory note, commercial pledge;
  • Mechanisms for negotiating and drafting national and international financing contracts under various types of credit, such as the purchase and sale of agricultural commodities, provision of monitoring and storage services for crops and inventories;
  • Audit of complementary documents for the constitution of real guarantees, such as property registrations, rural partnership agreements and rural lease agreements, recalculation of debts and rural debts;
  • Receipt of proposals to the detriment of the rural producer, as well as the filing of collection actions and executions of credit instruments and rural credit instruments;
  • Tax guidelines aimed at rural activity, as well as the filing of administrative and judicial defenses regarding tax debts;
  • Environmental Guidelines on the analysis of civil, administrative and criminal environmental liability, according to the activities and peculiarities of the enterprise and the activities developed, involving APAs, APPs, Legal Reserves, Water Resources, Environmental Crimes/Damages, Licenses, Grants;
  • Specific legal advice on the Carbon Market in Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM), encompassing the entire process of identification, certification, registration and negotiation of carbon credits resulting from activities to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases;
  • Preparation of opinions, notifications and contracts related to other specific environmental matters;
  • Consultancy in the protection of the rural man’s patrimony, avoiding its exposure to the risks inherent to the rural activity;
  • Preparation of adverse possession actions for rural and urban properties, real estate regularization, prevention of expropriation, rectification of areas, easements, among others;
  • Elaboration of possessory actions, such as repossession, maintenance of possession, prohibitory interdiction, demarcation, division, condominium extinction, revival of directions, compulsory adjudication, among others;
  • Elaboration of legal and administrative actions for rectification of real estate titles, and;
    In addition to labor issues.