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Tax Non-contentious: The Elite - Brazil
What the Team is Known For
Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados is a well-regarded firm with a tax department that has experience defending companies in tax assessment disputes at both the administrative and judicial levels. The team has comprehensive expertise in handling contentious mandates relating to direct and indirect taxes such as PIS and COFINS and ICMS, as well as IRPJ and CSLL. It draws upon a strong corporate and M&A practice to represent clients in related tax litigation, such as cases arising from the issue of goodwill tax amortisation.
Strengths
"This law firm has been excellent, providing high-quality services."
"They deal with highly complex cases and are great. Their client service is superb."
Work Highlights
Ulhôa Canto, Rezende e Guerra Advogados represents Banco BTG Pactual in four administrative tax cases that discuss the deductibility of the goodwill paid throughout their acquisitions.
Notable practitioners
Carlos Alberto is excellent in the tax area.
Carlos Alberto is a historical eminence.
He is intellectually brilliant and has a strong presence in the market.
Rodrigo has an excellent level of service and technical training of the team, making the firm stand out.
Rodrigo has partnership spirit that is very important, availability, attention to details and discusses and assists us. He has in-depth knowledge of tax and the market in general.
Rodrigo takes care of relevant cases. He handles cases strategically and at an absurd level of excellence. Great professional, very fast, technical and strategic.