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Provided by Mannrich e Vasconcelos Advogados
The tax non-contentious practice provides consultancy and strategic advice to clients facing complex tax issues. The team advises both established and new businesses, offering guidance on structuring local transactions and navigating international taxation.
A key highlight of the practice is its leading role in Brazil’s tax reform. The team has advised companies and trade associations throughout the legislative process, participating in public hearings before the National Congress, contributing to academic debate, publishing articles, and co-authoring Tax Reform Manual (by Thais Shingai and Breno Vasconcelos). Drawing on this experience, the practice helps companies adapt their business models to the new tax framework, ensuring compliance and identifying opportunities for efficiency and growth.
The team’s work includes tax policy analysis, strategic advice on legislative changes, and tailored tax solutions. It is experienced in social security taxation, incentive structures like bonuses, profit sharing and stock options, as well as revenue and profit taxation, including complex matters such as goodwill.
The firm serves a diverse client base, including Brazilian and international corporations and high-growth companies. With a deep understanding of clients’ operations, it delivers solutions that are legally sound, practical, and effective in real business contexts.
The team combines legal and accounting expertise to support clients in compliance and tax audits.
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Mannrich e Vasconcelos Advogados offers the necessary tax skills to assist clients with mandates relating to corporate fiscal issues, including advocacy work, income taxation discussions and tax efficiency strategies. It also deals with social security contributions and can act on transactional matters. The team is sought after by clients from the healthcare, agribusiness and chemical industries, among others.
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Mannrich e Vasconcelos undertakes advocacy work for CNSaúde before SEJAN, a council coordinated by the Office of the Attorney General (AGU).
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Mannrich e Vasconcelos has an holistic view of tax matters. Their analyses tackle not just one aspect of the issue, but all of them.
Mannrich e Vasconcelos's deliveries are aligned with what is necessary for the implementation of large projects, which is a major asset for us and helps us a lot with our decision-making process.
Mannrich e Vasconcelos is one of my go-to law firms, packing some serious technique. Plus, they understand my business better than a lot of my coworkers.
A firm very attuned to the Superior Courts discussions, including the ones related to the ongoing tax reform, Mannrich e Vasconcelos has an academic approach to legal work.
What distinguishes Mannrich e Vasconcelos in the tax law arena is its combination of agility and technical depth. They manage to break down legally thorny topics into objective analyses.
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Breno Ferreira Martins Vasconcelos is a co-head of the tax department in his firm and is a practitioner whose work has allowed him to gather experience particularly on social security mandates. He also offers tax litigation skills.
Breno Vasconcelos is impeccable in his service. Always available and owning a notable technical capacity, he adds a lot of value to all the work and projects in which he participates.
A great lawyer, Breno Vasconcelos has the ability to connect technical knowledge with the reality of our company.
Breno Vasconcelos is a lawyer with undisputable technique who navigates the tax administrative entities with ease.
Thais Veiga Shingai is a tax lawyer with a sizeable experience in corporate fiscal matters, including providing advice on income taxes and the tax ramifications of establishing new businesses.
A lawyer whose technical quality deserves to be highlighted, Thais Shingai is widely recognised across our company's departments. Plus, her service and communication are great.
Thais Shingai is distinguished by a very effective combination of agility, intelligence and technical depth. She's a very established, trustworthy lawyer whose work is great.
Head of Tax: Non-contentious
Head of Tax: Non-contentious
Provided by Mannrich e Vasconcelos Advogados
Carlos Henrique de Oliveira
Maria Raphaela Dadona Matthiesen
Ariane Morais dos Santos
Daniel Franco Clarke
Josy de Oliveira Almeida
Matheus da Cunha Silva
Breno Ferreira Martins Vasconcelos
Head of Department
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