Brazil

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 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

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.

Firm overview

CGM was founded by an experienced group of partners who have been working together for more than two decades and were joined by other partners coming from reputable law firms.

CGM enjoys strong client and market recognition as acknowledged in important international publications and rankings. The firm’s service model focuses on solving its clients’ issues in a responsive, efficient, and business-oriented manner, combining technical expertise and creativity.

With a team of professionals graduated from reputable Brazilian law schools, many of the firm’s lawyers have also obtained master’s degrees and other qualifications abroad and have worked outside of Brazil.

CGM has a tight-knit network of partnerships, which allows it to provide services throughout Brazil and coordinate multijurisdictional projects in Latin America. The team works at a very fast pace and has in-depth knowledge of the law and business environment of the region.

CGM positions itself as a “client-service firm”, which means it is prepared to assist its clients from the most sophisticated transactions to the management of their daily legal routine. CGM is keen on spotting issues but equally committed to addressing them. The firm’s team eagerly pursues solutions to help clients do business and achieve their goals. In addition, the firm’s professionals’ long-term experience working with international clients results in the ability to explain the Brazilian legal system to foreigners in a very practical way and in being sensitive to the cultural differences of doing business in Brazil and elsewhere.

CGM assists domestic and foreign clients from various industries, with strong expertise in agribusiness, automotive, banking, chemicals, construction, defense, e-commerce, energy, healthcare, heavy industry, hospitality and leisure, information technology, infrastructure, real estate, insurance, logistics, pharmaceutical, medical, professional, and regulated services, retail, wholesale and transportation.

Firm overview

Martinelli Advogados is recognised for its work in the tax area, especially in administrative and judicial disputes. Clients even recognise the high level of service provided by the professionals at all stages. Based on this solid foundation, the firm has invested in the growth of its transactional areas to strengthen its full service to clients. This strategy ensured results in areas such as M&A and capital markets, with an emphasis on structuring credit for agribusiness and work focused on the country's main agricultural cooperatives, as well as work in litigation and the expansion of teams and partners in all practices.

Internally, the firm underwent a restructuring of its governance, with the aim of promoting a positive transformation for employees, clients and society. More management committees were created with the participation of various lawyers and the corporate structure was adapted, promoting an increase in the number of partners, a way of making the firm more participatory and promoting solidity for the future of the company.

The increase also guarantees closer service and more efficient management in the 18 units – the presence in the main Brazilian cities becomes an important advantage in the strategic relationship with clients. Martinelli even recently opened a unit in Sinop, in the state of Mato Grosso.

Also as part of the strategic changes, Martinelli invested in modernising its units, focusing on spaces for integration and collaboration between teams, and in technology and innovation, especially in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data analysis to optimise the work of teams and improve customer service.
As part of its expansion strategy, Martinelli has strengthened its cross-border offer, with an intense schedule of visits to international clients, partners, prospecting agents and financial institutions.

Proximity facilitates legal advice for foreign clients, generating effective results at all stages regardless of the border. It also maintains a close and collaborative relationship with important international associations such as the IBA (International Bar Association) and the UIA (International Association of Lawyers).

It is worth noting that Martinelli Advogados, which already has a history of almost ten years of partnership with clients in the Northeast, has expanded its presence in the region. The project, led by partner Clarissa Mendes, is a way of getting closer to our clients and partners.

It is worth mentioning that the geographical expansion allows us to serve more than 5,000 clients in all strategic sectors of the economy, including agriculture, energy, transportation, technology, among others, which also gives us a broad view of the Brazilian market. With this, it reinforces its objective of being close to companies, promoting humanised service and aware of the challenges and characteristics of each region where it operates.

Management

Lawyer Juliana Martinelli, who specialises in corporate law and M&A transactions, has been at the helm of the firm since 2020, with a management focused on growth and diversity, as well as continuous investment in innovation and technology. The firm has executive committees made up of several partners, who cover the following areas: business, customer experience and marketing; people; units; technology; and risk and compliance.

Offices

Martinelli Advogados operates an extensive strategic network of offices, located in important regions for the national economy. It is present in seven states and the Federal District: Belo Horizonte (MG); Porto Alegre, Caxias do Sul and Passo Fundo (RS); Florianópolis, Joinville (2), Criciúma, and Chapecó (SC); Curitiba, Maringá and Cascavel (PR); Sinop (MT); São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto and Campinas (SP); Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and Brasília (DF).

Social responsibility

Martinelli promotes social responsibility actions organised through the Martinelli Institute, helping to develop civil society organisations that impact the lives of children and adolescents in the cities where it operates. In addition to its pro bono work in organising the governance of these entities, it also helps to raise tax funds. It is important to note that the Martinelli Institute has been a signatory member of the Santa Catarina National SDG Movement since 2020.