Brazil

Firm overview

Tax boutique providing full tax legal assistance on both consulting and litigation, with close participation on the daily matters of the clients and definition of tax and business strategies. High specialization level in tax law, including direct, indirect and international taxation, with hands-on approach and teamwork spirit.

• 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

Firm overview

The service provided by Silva Gomes Advogados is highly specialized and personalized, offering excellence in the provision of legal services with commitment and quality in a personalized way.

With extensive expertise in tax litigation, the firm was founded by partner Luis Augusto da Silva Gomes, who has a professional trajectory of over 20 years of experience establishing solid partnerships with clients and companies in general, always aiming at solving tax issues, administrative, tax and judicial litigations, tax consultancy, among other areas of expertise. By understanding the language, the business and the needs of its clients, the firm offers the best recommendations and legal alternatives, thus ensuring security in the resolution of the most varied matters and tax issues.

Silva Gomes Advogados law firm’s differential is its exclusive and specialized services established through personalized and direct contact with clients. This way, it is possible to understand the scenario and all the factors that affect the client’s needs.

Understanding that each case is unique, Silva Gomes Advogados makes a point of investing in the relationship with the client to provide the most appropriate, speedy and sound solutions. We believe that it is necessary to deeply understand the client’s business and opportunities in order to seek the most suitable answers that he and his company need.

The firm has extensive experience in conducting tax processes for companies of various sizes, from small companies to multinationals, in the most diverse segments and sectors of the economy. The secret to adjust to our clients’ different realities is our dedication to understanding and handling the client’s demand in a deep and individualized way.

With knowledge gathered over two decades working in the tax area, Silva Gomes Advogados also provides tax consulting services, including in the pre-litigation phase, due diligence of tax proceedings, in the administrative and judicial spheres, as well as in tax matters involving customs law.

Firm overview

DDTAX is a law firm focused exclusively on tax and customs, offering an exceptional level of specialization on those matters, and delivering highly technical legal opinions and efficient strategies for litigation. The firm’s support is trusted by clients from multiple sectors, such as technology, manufacturing, foreign trade, marketplaces, financial institutions, and agriculture.

DDTAX is focused on providing a highly personalized service to its clients, fully comprehending their problems, and delivering a tailor-made strategy for tax litigation and a highly technical and assertive tax consulting.

It aims to excel as a tax and customs law boutique, focused on complex and strategic demands. To that, they have developed a culture of combining academic refinement, a pragmatic approach on the problems, closeness to the client’s reality, a profound knowledge on administrative and judicial jurisprudence, and a creative thinking on the cases, being able to deliver a clinical look on strategic cases, with deep and efficient insights.

The firm was created after their partners left the Administrative Council of Tax Appeals (CARF), where they stood out with very technical and in-depth decisions, which had wide repercussions in the tax environment, bringing great prestige and notoriety to them. Two of the main partners, Carlos Daniel Neto and Diego Diniz Ribeiro, have been lawyers for a long time, both are very respected by their peers in academic and professional circles, thanks to their solid academic background and their long experience in CARF, being usually invited as guest speakers in Tax Courses and specialized seminars. The third partner to join, Antônio Atulim, is a former (retired) Tax Auditor from Federal Revenue Office, who worked as a Tax Judge at CARF for 13 years and joined the firm to strengthen both litigation and consultancy expertise.

Firm overview

Araújo e Policastro Advogados has built a reputation as one of the most respected full-service law firms in Brazil, with a long-standing reputation for excellence in various areas of legal practice since its foundation in 1962.

The firm has been successful in keeping its original goal: providing high quality legal services in a professional, innovative and practical manner.

The tax practice in both tax advice and litigation is one the core services of the firm.

Our tax team is highly qualified and remains headed by partner Sylvio Paes de Barros Junior, who has been systematically recognized for his solid tax knowledge over more than three decades of practice. He also counts with young and insightful lawyers known by their meticulous and hands-on practice with prompt answers to client’s needs.

The team provides a broad spectrum of services, which include tax litigation at the federal, state and municipal scopes and also tax consulting, advising Brazilian and foreign clients in industries such as industrial goods and services, infrastructure, energy, retail and technology, real estate, pharmacy, beauty etc.

The team also provides strategic tax planning and succession advice for wealthy individuals and family groups aiming at their full tax compliance and minimizing the tax burden over possible future gains and the estate’s transmission to future generations.

As per geographic alliances, the firm is a member of Nextlaw Global Referral Network, which gathers more than 280 law firms spread among more than 160 countries and has also built a long-lasting alliance with several local specialized partners for interdisciplinary transactions, such as M&A, business constitution abroad, among others, which may demand accounting, auditing or financial experts’ approach.

Firm overview

Deloitte is a leading Tax consulting service provider in Brazil, relying on its experienced and market-recognized professionals, frequently quoted as ranking among the best in the country. Luiz Rezende is the Tax deputy leader at the firm. The firm is committed to helping clients leverage technology to design, implement and monitor tax functions. Deloitte’s tax applications are specifically developed to deal with the Brazilian environment and are aimed at helping clients comply with Brazilian legislation.

Firm overview

Finocchio & Ustra Sociedade de Advogados started with the dream to fill a gap in the State of São Paulo's countryside’s market and build a full-service office that could compete with the most admired offices in Brazil.

Focused on developing effective and reliable legal solutions, highly qualified professionals, and working closely with clients, we gained market share and currently have in our client portfolio national and international companies of all sizes, and from all business segments.

We have made investments in corporate governance and in our management model; such as our participation in the Partners for Excellence Program (PAEX) of Fundação Dom Cabral, which is one of the best business schools in the world.

With our future and the sustainability of the firm in mind, in 2019 we launched our innovation platform: Future in Us (https://www.futurein.us/en/), as we believe in the rapid and disruptive evolution of law. We also believe that the best way to get to know us is by understanding our ideology. Thus, we make every possible effort and initiative to daily incorporate it into our culture.

Our vision

To be a benchmark firm, sustainable and timeless, in an ever-changing corporate environment.

Our mission

To understand and improve our clients' businesses, delivering results through strategic, innovative, reliable, and effective solutions.

Our purpose

To fulfill our mission in an ethical and synergetic environment, developing people with respect and transparency.

Our values

We believe in and are guided by our values:

• We are committed to excellence and result delivering
• We act ethically with integrity and transparency
• We value our clients and work to exceed expectations
• We value promptness and responsiveness
• We are assertive through clarity
• We are passionate about what we do
• We cherish team spirit, an easy-going, and inspiring work environment
• Our team is our greatest asset