About us

We are an authentic partnership focuses on tax law legal services, but without segregating our practice into subareas, with professionals that are capable of assisting our client with the following issues:

• Tax law consulting regarding operational and strategic matters

• Indirect, direct and international taxation

• Foreign trade taxation and tax classification of goods and services

• Administrative and judicial tax litigation

• Special tax proceedings and regimes

• Negotiation and review of commercial contracts, business reorganization and M&A under their tax impacts perspective

• Tax and state planning

We seek pragmatic, efficient and quick solution to tax issues, balancing technical capacity, interest in understanding the facts under analysis, closeness to the client’s day to day reality and strategic vision of alternatives to pursue.

Consolidated practice in the sectors of information technology, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, human and animal nutrition, renewable energy, infrastructure, cosmetics, laboratorial services, automobile and foreign trade.

We coordinate our work with experts from other legal areas, whenever the tax issue under our legal analysis involves Corporate or Contractual Law, Regulatory Legislation, Financial and Capital Market, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, or Family and Inheritance Law.

Recognition

With a solid base of loyal clients, the ‘very experienced’ team continues to draw instructions from new clients across the IT, cosmetics, infrastructure and pulp and paper sectors, covering tax litigation and advisory matters.

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“I find this a top Brazilian firm in terms of quality (not size – they are medium sized). They are responsive, commercial and to the point. They know the law and they know the practice,” a client said.

“We give the team all our new cases because the partners are always available, reply very quickly and are able to provide sophisticated solutions.”

Team

Towards the technical refinement of our team and a better knowledge of the reality of our clients, we hold weekly technical meetings during which we collectively discuss the most relevant issues.

On regular basis, we have special guests from other areas of knowledge into our meetings, stimulating the interdisciplinary reflection and approach.

We also have a routine of tax committees with our principal clients, with the participation of external auditors and other tax and financial service providers.

Our team is made up of with solid academic backgrounds, ethical values, cooperative and mutually supportive spirit, entrepreneurial drive, transparency, professional and intellectual ambition

We build an environment of ongoing technical updating, information exchanging and learning, which is the source of the knowledge base applied to the quick and innovative solution of the cases that are submitted to our firm.

Our professionals take active role in different tax law forum, maintaining teaching activities (complementarily to the legal practice) or publishing articles and books on domestic or international tax issues.

São Paulo team

partners

associates

Rio de Janeiro team

Publications

Our professionals have been responsible for the production of a number of articles and books in the tax law area over the last decade that analyze practical and theoretical questions regarding complex national and international tax law issues and closely monitor the evolution of Brazilian tax law.