Brazil CVM Filings for Law Firm Research

Litigation, capital-markets, and M&A counsel often need Brazil filings law firm source packs: FRE risk factors, contingencies, related parties, and audited DFP packages. apicvm returns those documents over HTTP with stable IDs for matter folders. It is not a legal research database or opinion tool.

The persona

Associates assembling public-company disclosure packs
Diligence teams reviewing FRE contingencies beside data-room files
Knowledge teams that archive PDFs with reproducible URLs

The problem

Legal question	Typical CVM source
Disclosed proceedings / contingencies	FRE sections (`name=` filters)
Related-party and governance context	FRE
Audited financial statements	DFP
Recent quarterly updates	ITR

Hand-clicking the CVM portal for every opposing party or target does not leave an audit trail.

Solution flow

Party tickers / CNPJs
  → GET /v1/companies/resolve
  → GET /v1/documents (FRE + name filters; DFP/ITR as needed)
  → GET /v1/documents/:id/file → matter DMS
  → optional POST /v1/document-text-extractions for full-text search

export APICVM_KEY='apicvm_...'
export APICVM_URL='https://apicvm.dev'

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APICVM_KEY" \
  "$APICVM_URL/v1/documents?ticker=VALE3&type=FRE&year=2024&name=Risco&perPage=20"

Section filtering patterns: FRE risk factors via section filter.

Matter pack checklist

Resolve by ticker or CNPJ
Archive latest FRE (and prior year if the dispute spans periods)
Pull DFP for the fiscal years at issue
Store document.id in the matter index — not only filenames

For deal-side framing, see M&A research and due diligence.

Example: contingency-oriented FRE pull

import os, requests

BASE = os.environ["APICVM_URL"]
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['APICVM_KEY']}"}

docs = requests.get(
    f"{BASE}/v1/documents",
    headers=H,
    params={
        "ticker": "PETR4",
        "type": "FRE",
        "year": 2024,
        "name": "Conting",
        "perPage": 20,
    },
    timeout=30,
).json()["data"]

for d in docs:
    print(d["id"], d["name"])

name is a substring filter on section/document names — refine iteratively; do not assume a single Portuguese label covers every issuer.

Current limitations

apicvm does not interpret Brazilian law or summarize claims.
Coverage is the ingested corpus, not a guarantee of every portal filing.
Extraction is async via callback; plan DMS ingest accordingly.

Next steps

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