PFM Associados is focused on listening and adding value to its clients, offering a range of services with a single objective: to achieve results that exceed expectations.
Our purpose is to listen and fully understand our clients' problems and issues, to deal and implement technology tools that can be predictive, while also helping to manage compliance issues, reporting and filing costs. We aim to provide a seamless level of client service by adopting an innovative approach, proposing alternatives that effectively add value.
Our vison is to deliver added value through a concise and pragmatic approach, to be seen as a reliable alternative that is always open to listen and learn from our clients.
The firm has four brand pillars that form the base of all its actions and define its culture. They are the way by which the firm acts with each other and with clients.
Excellence - To practice the highest professional standards and to provide a seamless experience when interacting with clients, professionals, partners and the business community. We are committed to excellence in every activity we engage in and service that we provide.
Ethical Behavior and Integrity - Always act with ethics and integrity in all our services, decisions, negotiations, communications, market positioning and everything else we do.
Mutual Commitment - Focus on developing and nurturing a genuine collaboration spirit among our work groups, professional practices and leaders.
Diversity - Key element to embrace new ideas, promote innovation, develop our people, build our brand and have a relevant role in our community. Professional growth is based on merit, personal commitment and effective contribution to our clients and to the firm.
Garrigues Consultores Tributários is part of the Garrigues international network of law and tax consulting firms.
In Brazil, Garrigues operates exclusively in the tax accounting and consulting fields, and is the Brazilian Member Firm of Taxand, a global network of tax firms.
Garrigues, through a multidisciplinary team, focuses on international tax, deal advisory and M&A tax, as well as in complex tax consultancy for large and medium-size multinationals in a wide range of sectors. Moreover, Garrigues advise on corporate tax, indirect tax and value chain transformation, transfer pricing calculation, administrative tax controversy and wealth.
Composed of some of the nation’s most renowned attorneys in their practice areas, Duarte Garcia, Serra Netto e Terra is a full service law firm with 32 partners and 51 associates located in São Paulo, Brazil. Duarte Garcia also has an office in Brasília and maintains associations with law firms in Portugal, Germany, Argentina, United States (Florida), Angola and China. Led by Marcelo Terra, Mário de Barros Duarte Garcia and Luis Eduardo Serra Netto, the firm has an experienced and successful litigation practice at all levels of jurisdiction, with relevant experience petitioning for the Federal Supreme Court and Superior Court of Justice. Duarte Garcia is highly regarded for its legal advisory practice in the areas of real estate, infrastructure and arbitration, being frequently honored by clients, other lawyers from around the country, national legal publications, and ranking organisations.
We are one of the most respected law firms in Brazil and Latin America. With a practice spanning more than 75 years, we have never moved away from our main purpose and long-term commitment: to deliver legal services with the highest standard of quality and excellence.
We support our clients with an integrated approach and teams carefully tailored to the needs of our clients and each specific project. Our lawyers are readily available when and where required, remaining highly motivated to contribute to the commercial success of our clients.
We consistently rank among Brazil’s leading law firms in a wide variety of publications, including Chambers and Partners, TTR Data, Latin Lawyer, The Legal 500 and IFLR.