Our business vision at your service.
De Vivo, Castro, Cunha e Whitaker Advogados (De Vivo, Castro Advogados) was founded in 1997 and since then has advised and helped its clients achieve their goals, maximize their business opportunities, and understand and control risks.
Our entrepreneurial spirit and the experience gained as clients – a large part of our team worked in multinational companies – qualify us to provide services that truly facilitate and help our clients in their decision-making.
We operate in various areas of law and combine our deep technical capacity and keen business acumen with flexibility and commitment. We are able to find practical and effective solutions for any type of case involving legal issues, from the simplest to the most complex, always focusing on your business and what really matters. We are ethical, loyal, and honest, because how we do what we do is as important as what we do.
We know that each case is unique and that each client has their own specific needs. We know how to listen and ask the questions that will help us understand your business, your needs, your profile, and your goals.
We are didactic, adaptable, and proactive. We learn from our clients. We speak and write simple, straightforward Portuguese. We don’t waste time. We ensure that every step or activity is promptly communicated, always in the most precise and transparent way possible. We encourage initiative and collaboration through a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming work environment that allows for the exchange of knowledge, opportunities, and innovation. We are plural and proud of the varied origins, characteristics, choices, and experiences of our members, and we believe that our strength lies precisely in our team and how it is respected. We are committed to recruiting, guiding, retaining, and promoting our professionals always according to meritocratic, fair, and transparent criteria.
But we are much more than lawyers and administrators: we are PEOPLE. Our mission is to ensure that each of us can balance personal and professional life. Enabling our team’s success means allowing them to achieve personal fulfillment. And that this is somehow conveyed to our clients and to society as a whole.
We are very proud to have our business at your service.
Ethics and justice come first.
We are ethical, loyal, and honest, because how we do things is as important as what we do.
We know that each case is unique and each client has their own specific needs. We know how to listen and ask the questions that will help us understand their businesses, their needs, their profile, and their objectives. We are didactic, adaptable, and proactive. We learn from our clients. We speak and write in simple, straightforward Portuguese. We don’t waste time. We ensure that every step or activity is promptly communicated, always in the most precise and transparent way possible.
We encourage initiative and collaboration through a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming work environment that allows for the exchange of knowledge, opportunities, and innovation. We are plural and proud of the varied origins, characteristics, choices, and experiences of our members, and we believe that our strength lies precisely in our team and how it is respected. We are committed to recruiting, mentoring, retaining, and promoting our professionals always according to meritocratic, fair, and transparent criteria.
The milestones of our history
A trajectory built on vision, people, and partnership
- 1996 Origin – André De Vivo starts the firm with an entrepreneurial vision and long-term focus.
- 1997 Construction – First partnership with Fernando Medeiros. Consolidation of the collective project.
- 1998-2000 Growth – Fernando Whitaker, Savênio Orlandi, and Eduardo Gouveia Gioielli join the firm. Change of headquarters and team formation.
- 2001 Transformation – Creation of the Career Plan and implementation of a real partnership.
- 2002-2003 Consolidation – Strengthening of the meritocratic culture and expansion of the partnership.
- 2006 Strategic Leap – Merger with Gustavo Castro, expanding ambition, governance, and scale. De Vivo, Whitaker e Castro Advogados is born.
- 2007 Governance – Professional structuring. Gustavo Castro takes over as CEO.
- 2008 Innovation in Services – Creation of the Secondment area.
- 2014 Governance & Ethics – Creation of the position of Ombudswoman.
- 2014 Headquarters moved to current address.
- 2019 Strategic Expansion – Merger with Cunha e Ricca Advogados.
- 2019 Rebranding – Adoption of the De Vivo, Castro Advogados brand and new institutional positioning.
- 2024 Culture & People – Awarded the Great Place to Work (GPTW) seal for the first time.
- 2026 Launch of the new website
AWARDS
We are recognized by leading publications
With over 29 years of experience, De Vivo, Castro, Cunha e Whitaker Advogados has been recognized by companies as one of the most admired law firms in Brazil in the areas of Civil and Consumer Law, Contracts, Tax Law, Labor Law, Intellectual Property, and Competition Law, according to “Análise Advocacia 500,” “The Legal 500,” “Best Lawyers,” “LACCA,” and Leaders League.
Our professionals have also been recognized by various publications, such as “The Legal 500,” “Corporate ITNL,” “Análise Advocacia 500,” and “LACCA.”
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R. Leopoldo Couto Magalhães Júnior, 758 - 10º andar
Itaim Bibi, São Paulo - SP, 04542-000