Branco
Strategy · Engineering · Law · Naval & Offshore Industry
Deep waters, clear decisions.
Tubarão Branco unlocks the out-of-the-ordinary transactions and disputes in Brazil's naval and offshore industry, combining engineering, law, and qualified institutional access to turn regulatory complexity into a decision roadmap.
Strategic excellence in comprehensive naval solutions: repair, modernization, and construction
The Bar Pilot
Tubarão Branco lives on the transactions no one else can navigate: floating docks with Merchant Marine Fund financing in the mix, hundred-million-dollar claims against state-owned companies, multi-authority structuring. The brand is the bar pilot, the pilot who knows every sandbank in the channel and boards the client's ship for the crossing. The ship remains the client's; the crossing belongs to TBL.
“Transactions involving public financing instruments, specific tax and customs structuring, approvals before multiple regulatory authorities, and institutional engagement with the Federal Government are not ordinary transactions.”
If it were ordinary, it wouldn't need TBL.
Five pillars
Engineering, law, and qualified institutional access to turn regulatory complexity into a decision roadmap.
From preliminary assessment to executive roadmap
Every relationship starts with a preliminary strategic assessment, as its own phase with closed scope. Execution (if and when it makes sense for the client) is a separate engagement, sized based on what that phase reveals.
Kick-off and strategic diagnosis
Executive alignment, document collection, and stakeholder mapping.
2 days
Regulatory assessment
Consents, approvals, Merchant Marine Fund guarantees, flag change.
2–5 days
Tax and customs assessment
Customs regimes, incentives, international logistics.
3–7 days
Scope and timelines vary by transaction. Exact sizing, including investment, is defined in the proposal, after kick-off.
Why Tubarão Branco
vs. the big four
They have scale. We have the sector.
vs. customs brokers
They execute the ritual. We design the strategy.
vs. going it alone
A Merchant Marine Fund mistake costs orders of magnitude more than the strategic assessment.
Start with the preliminary strategic assessment.
Tell us the essentials of the transaction or dispute. We'll come back with the next step and the timeline involved.
Where we are
Rua XV de Novembro, 94, room 403 – Centro – Niterói – RJ, Brazil
CEP 24020-140
Business hours: Monday to Friday