Grupo Forum

What Grupo Forum does

Grupo Forum is a privately held Brazilian debt collection and credit recovery group headquartered in São Paulo, founded in 1991 as Forum Nacional de Cobranças LTDA (CNPJ 64.918.444/0001-93), with a legal services arm (Dante Gregnanin Advogados) dating to 1986. The firm delivers end-to-end recovery services — friendly collection, pre-legal attempts, judicial collection, and post-action conciliation (COPA) — alongside civil litigation defense and consulting on Financial Business Law. Its primary customer base is consortium companies, with additional exposure to banks, insurers, securitized portfolios, leasing companies, and educational institutions across Brazil via a São Paulo matrix and branches in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia.

The group operates with an in-house technology team that develops custom programs per client, supported by an Information Security Management System covering confidentiality, integrity, and availability, daily backups, and a tiered data classification regime. The technology is positioned as a configurability differentiator rather than a platform play, and there is no public API, SDK, or productized software offering. Revenue mechanics are professional services-based, quote-driven B2B engagements with no publicly disclosed pricing.

The company is led by Dr. Dante Mariano Gregnanin Sobrinho, who brings 35+ years of industry experience, two-term ABAEC presidency, and ABAC Legal Committee membership. The group operates without external institutional capital, with no funding rounds, M&A, or restructuring events disclosed in the available data. Customer logos are not publicly named, limiting visibility into revenue concentration despite the multi-vertical segmentation approach.

Name

Grupo Forum

Legal name

FORUM NACIONAL DE COBRANCAS LTDA

Website

https://forumcob.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Grupo Forum is a privately held Brazilian debt collection and credit recovery firm founded in 1991, serving consortium companies, banks, insurers, leasing firms, and educational institutions across Brazil with end-to-end recovery, legal services, and custom in-house technology.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Debt Collection & Credit Recovery Services

NAICS

Collection Agencies (56144), Collection Agencies (561440)

SIC

Services-Consumer Credit Reporting, Collection Agencies (7320)

akta.pro primary industry

Third-Party Debt Collection Agencies (Consumer & Commercial) (BPAAAEAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Third-Party Collection Agencies (Consumer) (FSAKAJAB)

Keywords

• Debt collection services
• Credit recovery
• Civil litigation consulting
• Consortium debt recovery
• Portfolio management services

Headquarters

HQ city

São Paulo

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Debt Collection Services: Specialized collection services for delinquent borrowers, including friendly collection, pre-legal department attempts, and judicial collection processes. Includes COPA (Post-Action Collection) with specially trained negotiators for settlements within judicial actions.
2. Credit Recovery: Specialist in collecting delinquent bank financing and contemplated consortium loans, negotiating quickly and efficiently to reduce costs and losses while recovering client credits.
3. Consulting and Civil Litigation: Legal opinions on Financial Business Law and Civil Litigation Center for defense against various types of adverse actions.
4. Portfolio Analysis and Strategy Services: Strategy team performs detailed analysis of client product portfolios, portfolio localization, enrichment and hygiene, management information and benchmarking.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Grupo Forum is a Brazilian B2B debt collection and credit recovery firm that recovers delinquent loans for consortium companies, banks, financial institutions, insurers, securitized portfolios, leasing companies, and educational institutions. Services span friendly (extrajudicial) collection, pre-legal escalation, full judicial collection, a proprietary COPA post-action settlement program, civil litigation defense, financial-business-law consulting, and portfolio location/enrichment/hygiene. The offering is delivered through specialized strategy teams, an in-house technology team that builds custom software per client, and a national footprint headquartered in São Paulo with branches in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia.

Product overview

Grupo Forum is a debt collection and credit recovery company operating as a unified service offering rather than a modular platform. The company provides a comprehensive portfolio of collection services including friendly collection, pre-legal department attempts, and judicial collection processes, supported by specialized teams organized by product type. Core offerings include consortium collection, credit recovery, civil litigation consulting, and post-action collection (COPA). Services are delivered through national presence with headquarters in São Paulo and branches in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, supported by proprietary technology developed in-house.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Credit Recovery (Recuperação de Crédito) Outsourced collection of delinquent bank financing and contemplated consortium debts for financial institutions, consortium operators and other credit originators; recovers receivables through negotiation while reducing client costs and losses.
• Consortium Collection (Consórcios) Specialized collection of delinquent installments from contemplated members of consortium groups, for consortium companies and administrators; focuses on fast and efficient negotiation to reduce losses and recover client credits.
• Complete Collection (Cobrança Completa) End-to-end collection services spanning friendly (extrajudicial) collection, pre-legal escalation attempts and full judicial collection processes, providing a single provider across the entire collection cycle for B2B clients.
• COPA - Post-Action Collection (COPA - Cobrança Pós-Ação) Proprietary post-action collection program in which specially trained Grupo Forum negotiators work to reach a conciliation within ongoing judicial proceedings, settling cases that would otherwise continue through the courts.
• Civil Litigation & Financial Business Law Consulting (Consultoria e Contencioso Cível) Legal opinions on Financial Business Law plus a Civil Litigation Center that defends clients against adverse actions of various types, delivered through the affiliated law firm Dante Gregnanin Advogados.
• Portfolio Location, Enrichment and Hygiene (Localização e Enriquecimento de Carteira) Portfolio location, enrichment and hygiene services that improve the contactability and recovery potential of delinquent receivables before or during collection campaigns.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced costs and losses for client companies through efficient credit recovery

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Fórum Nacional de Cobranças LTDA-EPPcoreOthersParent legal entity (CNPJ 64.918.444/0001-93) of Grupo Fórum, operating as the primary collection and credit recovery business unit. Founded 1991, specializes in collection for consortiums, insurers, securitized portfolios, banks, real estate credit, leasing companies, and educational institutions.
• Dante Gregnanin AdvogadoscoreOthersLegal services arm established in 1986, complementing the initial activity of Fórum Nacional de Cobranças in the judicial sphere. Provides civil litigation defense and legal opinions on Financial Business Law.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Market position

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Grupo-Fórum-Assessoria-em-Cobrança-319064434883561
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/grupoforum/mycompany

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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