Luiz Eduardo da Silva is a Brazilian corporate lawyer and the director of LegalBR, a São Paulo firm that forms, maintains and regularizes companies for foreign investors and Brazilian groups. He has led corporate work on transactions worth from millions to billions of reais and builds the AI tools LegalBR uses in its daily practice. He reviews every guide in LegalBR’s Doing Business in Brazil library.
In brief
- Role
- Director and CEO, LegalBR
- Based in
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Admitted
- Brazilian Bar, São Paulo
- Education
- Postgraduate degree in Business Law
- Focus
- Corporate transactions and registry work
What he works on
Luiz Eduardo leads LegalBR’s corporate and paralegal practice, with a team that handles filings at Commercial Registries, tax authorities and notaries across Brazil. His day-to-day work covers:
- Setting up subsidiaries for foreign groups: choosing between SLU, Ltda and S.A., tax IDs for foreign partners, the resident legal representative and registration with the Commercial Registry.
- Corporate acts and registry filings in several states: amendments, mergers, spin-offs, conversions, and shareholder and board minutes.
- Corporate books, certificates and due diligence for acquisitions and financing.
- Acting in Brazil as attorney-in-fact for foreign companies and their partners.
Corporate transactions
Beyond company formation, Luiz Eduardo runs the corporate side of complex operations, from transactions worth a few million reais to deals in the billions. That work includes:
- Mergers, spin-offs and conversions of company types, including reorganizations of holding structures.
- Capital increases, share buybacks and changes of control, with the minutes, share registers and filings each one requires.
- Pledges and guarantees over quotas and shares registered for bank and development-bank financing.
- Corporate books audits and regularization for groups with hundreds of companies, and certificate due diligence for acquisitions.
- Responses to Commercial Registry requirements and administrative appeals when a filing is refused.
Technology and AI
Luiz Eduardo designs and builds the AI-powered tools behind LegalBR’s practice: assistants that review corporate documents and translations, track every filing and deadline across the client portfolio, and prepare billing and expense records. The goal is simple: faster, more consistent registry work with a lawyer accountable for every act.
Sectors
LegalBR’s corporate work covers groups in renewable energy, power trading, fuel distribution, healthcare, payments and digital assets, data centers, logistics, industry and real estate development.
How the guides are reviewed
Every guide is checked against primary sources: federal statutes, Federal Revenue and Central Bank rules, DREI instructions and the practice of the Commercial Registries. Each guide shows the date of its last review and lists its sources. The guides are general information, not legal or tax advice for a specific case.
Professional profile: Luiz Eduardo da Silva on LinkedIn.