The firm deals carefully with the opportunities that the market offers to the business and encourages partners and teams to work with collaboration, teamwork, and dynamism. After all, it is through this behavior that innovation achieves better and more objective results.
Roberto Quiroga
Managing partner
With a focus on the future added to the Mattos Filho’s culture, the capacity of engagement and collaboration of each of the partners and the more than 1,200 professionals of the firm is the key to providing an increasingly better service to our clients.
It is from this perspective that Mattos Filho introduces the challenges that will guide the next decade of the firm. The goal will be to provide client-focused legal assistance and support to a greater extent, understanding the problems in depth and always focused on presenting customized solutions.
For this, it is necessary to make an effort in order to have the best professionals and develop the maximum of their potential. Meantime, these professionals need to be aligned and complied with the values of the firm and its short, medium, and long-term goals.
By looking at Mattos Filho’s long-term growth potential, it is possible to outline an ambitious strategy. “Brazil is a country in which there is still much to be done, there will be opportunities for business growth and investment in the economy. In addition to the fact that the Law is dynamic, always with new rules and regulations, there is a lot of potential in the legal market”, explains managing partner Roberto Quiroga. That said, an institutionalized, integrated, and multidisciplinary law firm can occupy more and more space in the market, as its approach builds alignment with the client and engagement of professionals with the firm’s projects.
Collective action and long-term vision, two of the firm’s strengths, are essential at times like in the pandemic.
In 2019, Mattos Filho started with a new strategy that contemplates this future called “Visão 2023” (2023 Vision). It’s a long-term vision of what the firm wants to be in some years from now.
To achieve these goals, Mattos Filho develops initiatives aimed at attracting the best talents in the market and promotes an environment that enables continuous development on the professional and personal aspirations of each team player. In this context, the ability and willingness to adapt and reinvent are desired qualities, because to deliver a high-performance result, which is sustainable over time, it is necessary to have people with professional ambition, who want to be a reference in what they do.
The search for perfecting the strategy in the next decade necessarily involves decision making that will have an impact on the future. Collective action and long-term vision, two of the firm’s strengths, are essential at times like in the pandemic. Despite knowing that short-term decisions and measures with immediate effect need to be adopted, Mattos Filho does not divert its focus from the future of the firm along with its institutional values as the pillars of action.
To this end, three points stand out will continue to be considered as long as the pandemic crisis lasts and also in the moment of resumption: contribute with and help the client to find legal solutions in a period of challenges and major changes in its business; the constant concern for the personal and professional well-being of the firm’s team players; and the contribution to civil society so that the most affected people have their basic rights guaranteed.
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Excellence, dedication, and discipline in order to be the firm of choice for clients and professionals.
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Be constructive and respectful in your relationships. Interactions guided by trust, clearness, and carefulness, which are essential to building solid and lasting bonds.
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Invest in collective strength and the long-term vision. Think of the firm as an institution with initiatives that seek the continuity of the business.
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Create opportunities to contribute to the attraction, development, and retention of talents with a focus on the longevity of the business, enabling the construction of long-term careers and providing the best service for clients.
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Encourage entrepreneurship, creativity, and new ideas, so the firm remains relevant in the market, delivering solutions that meet clients’ needs.
What allows the firm to precisely explore its full potential is the collective vision, which transforms the development potential of each individual based on global growth and broad collaboration.
When evaluating the lessons learned in the first decade of the corporate and governance structure adopted by Mattos Filho and its impact on the current firm’s positioning, it is possible to clearly understand what has effectively contributed to the growth – be it in the technical sphere, by creating initiatives and providing support for teams to seek improvement and specialization, or in the pioneering development of administrative areas, which brought a great competitive advantage and support for the accelerated growth of the firm.
When it comes to the technical development of professionals, it is valid to note the firm’s investment in 2019 to expand its academic department. Training and development courses, promotion of spaces for debates, exchange of experiences between professionals of assorted levels and outstanding leaders of different markets, for example, strengthen the service, and hence, deliver innovative solutions that directly contribute to the clients’ business.
Thinking about the future goes beyond the development of processes, automation, or technology. It is believing that innovation is more than an application or a robot speaking, it is almost a state of mind.
The importance of its contribution to society is also something intrinsic to Mattos Filho’s organizational culture and strategy, spearheading social initiatives and fostering this culture among professionals. It is yet another area that the firm invests in, aware of the power of collaboration and genuine empathy for society. For this purpose, initiatives related to equity, inclusion, and corporate volunteering, in addition to pro bono, gain relevance.
What allows the firm to precisely explore its full potential is the collective vision, which transforms the development potential of each individual based on global growth and broad collaboration.
The habit of undertaking and innovating, in line with agility in decision-making, made the firm less resistant to change and allowed it to take risks without great fears or prejudices.
For the next decade, there is a clear need for a sustainable transformation and evolution, enhanced by the changes and new trends that have been observed in the corporate world as a result of the recent crisis. For Mattos Filho, thinking about the future goes beyond the development of processes, automation, or technology. It is believing that innovation is more than an application or a robot speaking, it is almost a state of mind; it is a mental exercise of questioning what else can be done to make professionals better and better, and what can be done to make the world better too.
“The firm deals carefully with the opportunities that the market offers to the business and encourages partners and teams to work with collaboration, teamwork, and dynamism. After all, it is through this behavior that innovation achieves better and more objective results for the transformation of ecosystems, including the legal market” explains Roberto Quiroga, managing partner of Mattos Filho.
The encouragement to entrepreneurship and innovation in the firm’s values shows how these aspects can cooperate with the results of the next decade. Several of the challenges that Mattos Filho had to suddenly deal with in the pandemic brought lessons that will be incorporated into the firm’s routine. Many will improve their ways or even the functioning of the world. The habit of undertaking and innovating, in line with agility in decision-making, made the firm less resistant to change and allowed it to take risks without great fears or prejudices, right now more than ever.
Mattos Filho also reinvented the way to maintain its relationship with clients, reiterating its multidisciplinary and collaborative capacity to act in more than 30 areas of legal practice, with a single goal: always provide a distinguished, specialized, and innovation-focused service.
With society constantly changing, the problems also change and so does the interaction of Law with people. Hence, the less dynamic an organization or a law firm, the less will be the ability to provide a good service to the client. The management structure of Mattos Filho provides the dynamism that the market demands, and that includes adaptation and being ready for the new.
To deliver a high-performance result, which is sustainable over time, it is necessary to have people with professional ambition, who want to be a reference in what they do. And take innovation almost as a state of mind; a mental exercise of questioning what else can be done so that I can become a better professional.
José Eduardo Queiroz (1970-2020)
