Chambers Review
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Tax Non-contentious: The Elite - Brazil
What the Team is Known For
Aires Barreto Advogados Associados has a well-reputed practice that is mainly active in providing legal opinions on taxation aspects of M&A deals and corporate matters. The firm also undertakes mandates of a contentious nature, such as those relating to municipal taxes. It also handles tax work involving transfer pricing, tax audits and compliance.
Strengths
Aires Barreto's lawyers are highly skilled and have extensive and consolidated experience. The service they provide is intrinsically swift and personalised.
Aires Barreto's team is very well-prepared from a technical standpoint. They bring a lot of expertise and commercial vision to their work, given their long experience in tax matters.
A boutique law firm that was able to really understand our business and deliver an incredibly deep legal opinion. Aires Barreto managed to explain our situation in an easy way.
Notable practitioners
Paulo Ayres Barreto has carved out a good reputation in the tax practice by providing legal opinions to clients on complex cross-border matters, as well as municipal and federal revenues, taxation of financial products and matters related to corporate reorganisations.
Paulo Ayres Barreto is the pope of Brazilian tax law. An extremely didactic professional.
One of the biggest names in tax law in the country, Paulo Ayres Barreto acts in a precise, strategic and assertive way.
Paulo Ayres Barreto's uniqueness lies in his ability to masterfully navigate between rigorous theoretical analysis and innovative practical application of tax law.
Paulo Arthur Cavalvante Koury is a tax practitioner who offers experience in matters concerning corporate taxes. He is also active on transactional mandates, where he handles the tax ramifications of such issues.
Paulo Arthur Koury is a lawyer with a very refined tax technique. He's super-engaged in projects and is assertive and strategic in his arguments.
His deep intellectual framework is notable. Paulo Arthur Koury translates his solid theoretical foundation into a strategic and innovative business vision.