The Firm

DBML - Dias Brandão Maggi Lima Law Firm is a consequence of the solid and broad professional and academic experience of the partners. These pillars, aligned with a highly qualified team, guarantee excellence, specialized legal services, with an ethical commitment to client defense.

The firm was established in 2015 with the union of lawyer Roberto Dias and lawyers Patricia Brandão and Juliana Maggi Lima. In response to the growing demand for professionals specialized in their areas of expertise joined forces to provide excellent legal services, personalized and dedicated to the specifics of each client. In 2022, following the concept of solid development, Vitor Hugo Jacob Covolato joined the DBML team of partners.

Since its foundation, the firm has provided legal services with a focus on results and works daily to arrange technical excellence for companies, startups, associations, foundations, professionals, families, and individuals in different areas of law, in the advisory, negotiation, and litigation spheres.

We bring efficient and customized responses to the demands of our clients with technical innovation and professional ethics.

Practice Areas

The firm operates in the spheres
of advisory, negotiation, and litigation
in the following areas:

Team

Roberto Dias

Lawyer
• More than 30 years of experience as a lawyer for companies, foundations, and individuals;
• Doctor in Law from PUC/SP;
• Professor of Law at PUC/SP and FGV/SP. Coordinator of the undergraduate course in Law at FGV Direito SP;
• Member of the Bioethics Committee of Hospital Sírio-Libanês.

Patricia Brandão

Lawyer
• 14 years of solid performance in providing services to companies, legal departments, associations, and individuals;
• Expertise in strategic litigation and complex negotiations;
• Training in Negotiation and Business Law by GvLaw;
• Graduated from PUC/SP and post-graduated in Civil and Consumer Law from EPD;
• Member of the Permanent Commission for Women Lawyer at OAB-SP.

Juliana Maggi Lima

Lawyer
• 14 years of solid experience in the family, succession, estate planning, gender compliance, and sexual diversity areas;
• Master in Civil Law from USP. Graduated from PUC/SP. Post-graduated in Family and Inheritance Law by the EPD and specialist in Family and Inheritance by Universidade de Coimbra. Extension in Business Law by GVLaw;
• Member of the Family and Succession and Women Lawyer Committees of the OAB/SP;
• Counselor of the First Judging Panel of the Prerogatives Council of OAB/SP.

Vitor Hugo Jacob Covolato

Lawyer
• 09 years of solid experience in public law and dispute prevention and resolution in the civil and administrative spheres, advising companies, legal departments, and associations;
• Postgraduate student in Civil Procedural Law at PUC/SP. Graduated from PUC/SP;
• Secretary General of the Special Commission on Administrative Law of the OAB/SP;
• Member of the Probity Guardianship Commissions and Court of Auditors of the Brazilian Institute of Sanctioning Administrative Law (IDASAN).

Bruno Bosso Medes

Lawyer
• Professional experience focused on the area of family and succession with passages in offices such as Guimarães Bastos Advogados and PHR Advogados;
• Bachelor of Laws from PUC/SP (2015), where he was an assistant professor to Prof. Rita by Cassia Curvo Leite;
• Studying Specialization in Family and Succession Law at EPD;
• Registered with the OAB/SP.

Edouard David M. Dardenne Neto

Lawyer
• Bachelor of Law from PUC/SP; Master in Civil Procedural Law from PUC/SP; Specialist in Public Law from the Escola Paulista da Magistratura;
• Public servant at the São Paulo State Court of Justice for over 10 years;
• Guest Professor at the Mackenzie Presbiterian University;
• Assistant Coordinator and Professor of the specialization course in Civil Procedural Law at COGEAE of PUC-SP.

Gabriel Lopes dos Santos

Intern

Gustavo da Rocha Dahrug

Lawyer
• Since his internship, he has been dedicated to the practice of family and succession in DBML;
• Certificate in Conciliation and Mediation by IMAB (Institute of Mediation and Arbitration of Brazil);
• Bachelor of Laws from PUC/SP (2020);
• Registered with the OAB/SP.

Hannetie Sato

Lawyer
• 9 years of solid experience in the area of family, estate, and succession planning, with stints in offices such as Peixoto & Cury Advogados and Mário Luiz Delgado Advogados;
• Graduated from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Postgraduate in Family and Successions Law from EPD. Extension in Public and Private International Law by The Hague Academy of International Law; Extension in Consumer Law by GVLaw;
• Associated with the São Paulo Lawyers Institute – IASP; Secretary of the IASP Family and Successions Law Commission;
• Member of the Family and Successions Commission of the OAB/SP.

Luiza Loureiro Montagnini

Lawyer
• Professional experience focused on the family area and estate planning successions. She has worked at Guimarães Bastos Advogados;
• Bachelor of Laws from PUC/SP (2018);
• Specialist in Estate and Succession Planning at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/SP);
• Attended an extension course in Succession Planning at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/SP).
• Enrolled in the OAB/SP.

Renata Pedroso

People and Management Manager

Yngrid Vitória Rocha

• Has been in the DBML internship since 2023;
• Bachelor of Laws from PUC/SP (2023).

Media

Contents | 18/09/23

News: The State of São Paulo has new measures to combat domestic violence.

A man who responded for domestic violence – and wore an ankle bracelet – and failed to comply with the protective measure, was arrested again after monitoring by the Military […]

Publication | 15/09/23

In the media: Vitor Covolato, partner at DBML, participated in an event that brought together judges, prosecutors, lawyers and legal experts to discuss changes in the LIA, at Sindifisco.

The speech by our partner, Vitor Covolato, at the Seminar on the Administrative Improbity Law organized by Sindifisco Nacional was reflected in a BandNewsTV report. As Vitor said: “It is […]

Publication | 05/09/23

In the media: Roberto Dias, partner at DBML Advocacia, participated in Jornal da Cultura to talk about the vacancy that will be opened in the STF with the retirement of Minister Rosa Weber.

In an interview with Jornal da Cultura, our partner Roberto Dias comments on the vacancy that will be opened in the STF with the retirement of Minister Rosa Weber and […]

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