LBS Advogadas e Advogados

What LBS Advogadas e Advogados does

LBS Advogadas e Advogados (legal name: LBS ADVOGADOS, LOGUERCIO, BEIRO E SURIAN SOCIEDADE DE ADVOGADOS) is a Brazilian labor and union law firm officially incorporated on July 17, 2013, through a spin-off from a predecessor firm, though the founding partners (José Eymard Loguercio, Nilo Beiro, and Eduardo Surian Matias) have practiced together since the late 1980s. The firm specializes in labor law, union law, social security law, public servant law, banking sector representation, and civil law, with a continuous appellate practice before Brazil's Superior Courts (TST, STJ, STF) maintained through a dedicated Brasília office since 1992.

The firm operates four physical offices in São Paulo, Campinas, Brasília, and Goiânia, staffed by approximately 50+ professionals including named equity partners, associates, and administrative staff. Its core products are professional legal services — litigation, legal opinions, collective bargaining support, substitute-plaintiff collective actions, and Superior Courts appellate representation — delivered through direct attorney-client relationships. The firm generates revenue through fee-based legal services with quote-based pricing determined by case complexity, and there is no proprietary technology product, AI tooling, or subscription offering. The technology stack is limited to standard office tools (Microsoft Outlook/O365 for appointment booking, WhatsApp for client contact, a website with content publishing).

LBS serves a concentrated client base anchored in the Brazilian labor union movement, including major banking sector unions (Sindicatos dos Bancários de Campinas, Brasília, and Limeira), CUT Nacional (the country's largest labor confederation), Fenae (Banco do Brasil employees' federation), ADunicamp, Fetrafi-MG/CUT, and Contraf-CUT, alongside individual banking sector workers, public servants, and social security beneficiaries. The firm also operates a sub-brand called Instituto Lavoro, a research institute dedicated to transdisciplinary labor relations studies that organizes international seminars and co-publishes legal books with peer firms. Revenue is not publicly disclosed and the firm is privately held by its founding and equity partners with no external investment.

Name

LBS Advogadas e Advogados

Legal name

LBS ADVOGADOS, LOGUERCIO, BEIRO E SURIAN SOCIEDADE DE ADVOGADOS

Website

https://lbs.adv.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

LBS Advogadas e Advogados is a Brazilian labor and union law firm with four offices in São Paulo, Campinas, Brasília, and Goiânia, serving labor unions, banking sector workers, public servants, and CUT Nacional across all judicial instances including the Superior Courts.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Workforce Compliance & Employment Law Risk Management (Local Labor Law, Tax, Statutory) (BPACAHAH)

Keywords

• Labor law services
• Union legal representation
• Banking sector law
• Social security law
• Collective labor rights

Headquarters

HQ city

Campinas

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Legal Services Fees: LBS Advogadas e Advogados generates revenue through fees charged for legal services in labor law, union law, social security, civil law, and public administration law. Services include judicial actions, legal opinions, guidance, and collective actions for union entities and individual clients.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

LBS Advogadas e Advogados is a Brazilian law firm that provides specialized legal services in labor and employment law, union law, social security law, banking-sector labor law, collective labor actions, civil and administrative law, and public servant law. The firm delivers litigation, legal opinions, advisory, and collective bargaining representation for labor unions, banking-sector workers, public servants, social security beneficiaries, and civil-law clients across all Brazilian judicial instances, including the Superior Labor Court (TST), Superior Court of Justice (STJ), and Federal Supreme Court (STF) in Brasília.

Product overview

LBS Advogadas e Advogados is a traditional law firm operating as a unified legal services practice rather than a modular software platform. The firm offers comprehensive legal services through its team of lawyers, organized into distinct practice areas that work collaboratively: Labor and Employment Law, Union Law Services, Social Security Law, Banking Sector Legal Representation, Collective Labor Actions, Supreme Courts Practice, Civil and Administrative Law Services, and Public Servant Legal Representation. The firm also operates Instituto Lavoro, a research and education sub-brand that organizes international seminars and publishes legal analysis. All services are delivered through direct attorney-client relationships across the firm's four physical office locations in Brasília, Campinas, Goiânia, and São Paulo, supplemented by digital communication tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Instituto Lavoro: An association dedicated to developing and disseminating scientific studies related to labor relations topics in a transdisciplinary context.

Products and services

• Labor and Employment Law Services (Direito do Trabalho) Full-service labor and employment law representation for individual workers, labor unions, and associations, covering litigation, consultations, legal opinions, and collective bargaining support across all Brazilian judicial instances.
• Union Law Services (Direito Sindical) Comprehensive legal support for unions including entity formation, bylaws drafting, assembly coordination, elections oversight, collective negotiations, strike monitoring, and administrative reorganization.
• Social Security Law Services (Direito Previdenciário) Legal representation for social security matters including benefit claims (sick leave, work accident benefits, disability retirement), benefit value revisions, and supplementary pension disputes involving entities such as PREVI and FUNCEF.
• Banking Sector Legal Representation (Direito dos Bancários) Specialized legal services for banking workers and unions, handling overtime claims, benefits, occupational accident compensation, moral damages, harassment cases, and rights of employees at public and private financial institutions including Banco do Brasil and Caixa Econômica Federal.
• Collective Labor Actions (Direito Coletivo do Trabalho) Legal representation in collective actions brought by unions and associations as procedural substitutes, including writs of mandamus, enforcement actions, class actions, and collective or group-based executions.
• Superior Courts Practice (Atuação em Tribunais Superiores) Specialized representation before the Superior Labor Court (TST), Superior Court of Justice (STJ), and Federal Supreme Court (STF), with continuous presence in Brasília since 1992.
• Civil and Administrative Law Services (Direito Civil e Administrativo)

Quantifiable outcome

• LBS achieved R$2.1 million in collective moral damages through a TAC between MPT and Poupex for harassment cases involving employees from the Banco do Brasil union.
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CONTRAF-CUT (Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores do Ramo Financeiro)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 April 2026LBS produced the guide (cartilha) on 'Organização sindical diante das transformações do sistema financeiro' for CONTRAF-CUT, addressing union organization challenges in the financial sector.
• Sindicato dos Bancários de BrasíliacoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 3 September 2025The union collaborated with LBS's legal advice in investigations that resulted in a TAC (Termo de Ajustamento de Conduta) between MPT-DF and Poupex, guaranteeing R$2.1 million in moral damages for harassment cases.
• Instituto LavorocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInstituto Lavoro is an association dedicated to developing and disseminating scientific studies related to labor relations in a transdisciplinary context. It is linked to LBS through shared founding partners (José Eymard Loguercio is Director of Instituto Lavoro). The institute organizes international seminars, debates, courses, and training, and promotes participation in national and international conferences.
• Instituto DECLATRA – Defesa da Classe TrabalhadoracoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for publishing books defending workers' rights, including the book 'Direito do Trabalho Bancário – Temas Atuais na Prática da Advocacia Especializada' and the series published after the 2016 impeachment, covering labor and social security reforms.
• Fundação Perseu AbramominorGTM or Marketing PartnerFoundation provided support for the Institute's International Seminars, including video transmission of the events.
• Fundação Friedrich EbertminorGTM or Marketing PartnerInternational seminar partner that supported the International Seminar 'Negociação Coletiva em Tempos de Crise' (2016).
• Melo e Isaac AdvogadosminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for publishing books on workers' rights topics, including the book on outsourcing (Terceirização no STF).
• Roberto Caldas, Mauro Menezes & Advogados (R&M)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for publishing the book series defending workers' rights.
• ALJT – Associação Latino-Americana de Juízes do TrabalhominorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for publishing the book series defending workers' rights.
• Alino & Roberto AdvogadosminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for publishing books on outsourcing and labor law topics.
• Stamato, Saboya & BastosminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for publishing the book on banking labor law.
• Antonio Vicente Martins (AVM) AdvogadosminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for publishing books on labor law topics.
• CUT Nacional (Central Única dos Trabalhadores)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLBS provides legal advisory to CUT Nacional and is its legal assessor. LBS lawyers act as amicus curiae in important cases before the STF on behalf of CUT.
• Confederações dos setores metalúrgico e têxtilminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorLBS lawyer Mádila Barros represented the metalurgical and textile sector confederations at the STF hearing on salary equality.
• Various banking union law firms across BrazilminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOver 80 partner law firms across Brazil collaborate in support of banking sector workers' claims.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves13 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Lino & Bicalho Advogados: Specialist Brazilian labor and employment boutique with strong union-side representation. Comparable to LBS as a similarly focused labor boutique competing for the same pool of union and worker mandates, particularly in collective-bargaining matters.
• Woida & Salmazo Advogados: Specialist Brazilian labor and employment boutique with significant union-side experience. Comparable to LBS in client mix (union and worker-side mandates) and substantive practice focus on collective labor law.
• Siqueira Castro – Diretoria de Direito do Trabalho: Brazilian firm historically associated with union-side labor representation. Most directly comparable to LBS in terms of labor-law specialization and union clientele, though its geographic footprint and institutional history differ.
• Bichara e Motta Advogados: Brazilian labor boutique focused on union-side representation and collective labor disputes. Comparable to LBS in size and specialization, frequently competing for the same union centrals and banking-sector mandates.
• Melo e Isaac Advogados: Brazilian labor and employment boutique that has co-published with LBS (notably the outsourcing book 'Terceirização no STF'). Comparable in subject-matter focus and union-side orientation, though smaller in scale.

Broad incumbents

• TozziniFreire Advogados: Large Brazilian full-service firm with a strong labor practice and significant corporate and banking clients. Comparable as a competitor for sophisticated labor mandates in the financial sector, where LBS also operates, but with materially broader practice coverage.
• Machado Meyer Advogados: Full-service Brazilian firm with deep labor, banking and administrative law benches. Comparable because it competes for high-end labor and union-side advisory mandates, but with a much larger headcount and broader corporate client base than LBS.
• Dannemann Siemsen: Brazilian full-service firm best known for IP but with labor practice. Comparable as a competitor in the broader Brazilian legal market with corporate and institutional clients, though LBS is far more concentrated on labor and union law.
• Mattos Filho: One of Brazil's largest full-service law firms with a prominent labor and employment practice. Comparable because it competes for the same corporate labor mandates, but operates across all practice areas and serves both employer and employee-side clients, unlike LBS's union-focused niche.

Others

• Fundação Perseu Abramo: Think tank associated with the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT) that supports Instituto Lavoro's international seminars. Comparable as an ecosystem participant rather than a direct competitor — shares LBS's labor-movement alignment and supports the same institutional network.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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