Chambers Review
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Tax Litigation: Highly Regarded - Brazil
What the Team is Known For
ALMA Law is an established law firm that has a strong tax litigation presence. Due to its team's breadth of expertise, it can also assist clients in corporate, capital markets and M&A matters. Its roster of clients includes many well-known financial institutions and energy sector companies.
Strengths
In addition to intellectual excellence, the expertise of each partner added even more to the final results. The documentation and verbal opinions in meetings were extremely clear.
In all the topics we brought to them, they demonstrated knowledge and always made themselves available to do new research and guarantee the best technique possible to tackle it.
Work Highlights
ALMA Law represented Aspen Pharma in a lawsuit to challenge a tax assessment imposing fines derived to tax ancillary obligations.
Notable practitioners
Brilliant tax lawyer, Alexandre is extremely technical and didactic. He easily understands how our business works, which facilitates the preparation of our tax theses and results in good solutions.
Alexandre Monteiro is very active and shows genuine concern for what is best for the client. He stands out for his deep knowledge of the law.
Luciana Aguiar is a practitioner with expertise gathered during many years of work dealing with income taxation, as well as PIS and COFINS. She further has experience working in important auditing firms.
Luciana Aguiar has a great knowledge in the field using her consulting companies background.
Besides the hard skill that is necessary to be a competent lawyer, Luciana Aguiar is a very inspirational woman. Strong, skilled and always attentive.