Maia Yoshiyasu Advogados

Maia Yoshiyasu is a Brazilian law firm with a sports and gaming practice, ranked by Legal 500 for sport, and one of the firms that has secured fixed-odds betting licences under the current regime.

That last point is the one that matters for a buyer. The Brazilian licensing process is new enough that experience is not evenly distributed: a firm that has already taken applications through has learned things about the process that are not written down anywhere.

Legal advice is not a product you compare on a feature grid. The useful questions are how many applications the firm has actually completed, who on the team would handle yours, and what they will not do — a firm that says yes to everything in a new regulatory market is telling you something.