Due diligence & M&A
Documents and live sessions working from one agreed glossary.
Due diligence
Document translation
Certified Document Translation
Contracts, regulatory filings, financial statements, technical manuals and business documentation — translated by subject-matter linguists, reviewed by a second one, and handled under NDA.
Scope
What we translate
STIB translates legal, financial, technical and general business documents between Portuguese and English and across a network covering more than 40 languages — including materials prepared for submission to regulatory bodies such as ANVISA, CVM and MAPA.
The thing that separates usable business translation from the other kind is not vocabulary, it is discipline about repetition. A defined term has to appear identically every time it appears, across every document in the set, even when a writer's instinct is to vary it. That is a process question as much as a linguistic one.
What we translate
- Legal contracts and corporate agreements — including the language clause that decides which version prevails
- Financial statements and disclosures — notes and accounting language, which follow their own conventions per jurisdiction
- Regulatory filings and registration dossiers — where consistency across modules and annexes decides whether a submission moves
- Technical manuals and specifications — documents people act on, where an imperative must stay an imperative
- Academic transcripts and certificates — form-bound documents checked against a template by the receiving institution
- General business correspondence and materials — the everyday volume that still has to sound like one company
Certification & formats
What we can and cannot certify
STIB provides certified and professional translation. It does not currently offer legally sworn translation (Tradução Juramentada). If your document requires that specific legal certification, tell us and we will advise on next steps — this is one of the places where saying so up front saves a rejected filing.
Accepted formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and other common business document formats. Scanned documents may require OCR processing first.
Quality process
The same four steps, every time
Assignment
The document goes to a translator with relevant subject-matter background, not to whoever is free.
Translation
Produced against the agreed glossary, with translation memory keeping repeated passages identical.
Independent review
A second linguist reviews the target text against the source — every document, regardless of size.
Delivery
Returned in the working format, with the glossary retained so later revisions stay consistent.
Straight answers
Document translation, answered
Do you provide sworn translation (Tradução Juramentada)?
No. STIB provides certified and professional translation. It does not currently offer legally sworn translation, which in Brazil is a public office held by a translator appointed by a state commercial registry. If your document requires that specific certification, tell us which authority is receiving it and we will advise on next steps rather than delivering something that will be refused.
What is a certified translation, then?
A translation accompanied by a statement of accuracy from the provider, identifying the document and the languages. It is accepted for a wide range of corporate, commercial, regulatory and internal purposes — but not as a substitute for a sworn translation where one is legally required.
Which file formats do you accept?
PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX and other common business formats. Scanned documents may need OCR processing first, which is done before translation begins so that the text is genuinely editable rather than re-typed.
How do you keep terminology consistent across a large set of documents?
With a glossary built from the source material and agreed with your team before translation starts, plus translation memory so that repeated passages are rendered identically rather than freshly each time. This is what keeps a hundred-file data room internally coherent.
Is every translation reviewed by a second person?
Yes. Every document goes through assignment to a subject-matter translator, translation against the agreed terminology, and independent review by a second linguist, regardless of the document's size.
How is confidential material handled?
Under an NDA signed before any file is shared, with named linguists assigned to the project. STIB signs the client's own confidentiality agreement when required, and files are shared only with the people working on the assignment.
Can you translate documents for ANVISA, CVM or MAPA submissions?
Yes. STIB translates materials prepared for submission to Brazilian regulatory bodies, working from the terminology those frameworks use. Whether a given submission also requires a particular form of certification depends on the body and the document, and we will tell you before starting.
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