DENTON TAVARES PAES has attorneys affiliated with it, who are licensed to practice in Brazil and in the USA - New York, Washington D.C, Louisiana, Alabama and California. All members of the firm have considerable expertise on domestic and international matters and a large and long-standing reputation in their respective areas of practice.
The firm does not have a rigid organizational structure and the best professional will always be available to serve a particular client need. In most cases, the services are rendered through a group of professionals, which may be small or large depending on the matter at hand, but which will always be structured with the client’s needs in mind.
PRIORITY ON SERVICE
Quality is paramount to our practice and we will add all resources necessary to fully attend to a client’s need.We strive to understand and anticipate our clients’ goals and interact with them to produce legal solutions according to their expectations.
Our goal is to maintain the highest standards of professional expertise, with focus on our relationship with our clients and team work to provide international quality service at the most reasonable cost.
We are committed to always bringing about creative legal solutions to our clients, and to excellence, timeliness and efficiency of our services.
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Denton
Global Member Cybersecurity Institute. Lawyer recommended for several years by the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association of (LACCA) in the areas of Corporate and Litigation and appointed as Thought Leader; Latin Lawyer; Latin 250; Legal 500, Chambers and Editorial Analysis.
He worked with the Brazilian Reinsurance Institute (IRB), in Rio de Janeiro (1981-1982); at the law firm Thomaz Nabuco, in Rio de Janeiro (1982-1986); lawyer at Fox & Horan LLP, New York (1987-1988); lawyer at White & Case LLP, New York (1988-1990); lawyer at The Law Offices of SG Archibald, in Paris (1990-1991); Vice President at The Chase Manhattan Bank NA (Project Finance/Latin America Corporate Finance), in New York (1991-1994); Senior Vice President at Scudder Kemper Investments, Inc. (Asset Manager), in New York (1994-2000); external legal director at TeleNova Communications, Inc., in Miami (2000-2002); partner at Flecha de Lima & Tavares Paes Advogados, Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo/Brasília (2000-2008); partner at Wald Advogados Associados, Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo/Brasília (2008-2010); and partner at Denton Tavares Paes LLC – Attorneys-at-Law, in New York.
Antonio Tavares Paes Jr.
Hal Denton is a partner in the law firm of Denton Tavares Paes, LLC, a law firm specializing in risk management and international business transactions and with offices in the US and Brazil. He has served as General Counsel for AFS Intercultural Programs from 1989 to the present (AFS is a large multi-national not-for-profit organization with approximately 50,000 volunteers in 55 countries). At Denton Tavares Paes, he advises other non-profit and for-profit entities providing a wide range of general legal and corporate advice with a focus on risk and crisis management, general corporate advice, governance, licensing agreements, technology, and intellectual property.
Prior to 1989, he worked at Fox & Horan in New York as an associate (1987-1989) as a corporate lawyer specializing in international business transactions, securities, foreign debt restructuring and debt equity swaps. He started his legal career in New Orleans in 1984 with Jones Walker et al., the largest law firm in Louisiana, where he chaired the entertainment law section of the firm (1986). He also chaired the Young Lawyers for the Arts Committee of the Louisiana State Bar Association.
Hal has a law degree from Hastings College of the Law (J.D. 1984) and a B.A. from Syracuse University (1977).
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