Farroco Abreu Advogados

Firm Details:

Managing Partners: Valéria Zotelli, José Mauricio Abreu, and Bruno Guarnieri

Number of partners: 8

Number of other fee-earners: 21

Offices: Av. Pres. Juscelino Kubitschek, 28 - 3º Andar / São Paulo - SP, Brazil

Email:[email protected]/[email protected]/ vzotelli@farrocoabreu,com.br

Telephone: +55 (11) 4550-5370

Firm Overview:

Farroco Abreu Advogados (F/A) is a business law firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, offering a broad range of legal services to both domestic and international clients. The firm provides smart legal solutions, deep industry knowledge, and innovative strategies designed to meet the specific needs of each client.

Farroco Abreu Advogados works with clients across diverse markets, delivering customized legal services tailored to their strategic objectives. By understanding the unique characteristics of each industry and business operation, the firm ensures practical, effective, and business-oriented legal advice.

The firm is built upon three core pillars:

1. 1. Integration – The integration of our human capital into a unified team that promotes constant communication and full synergy for the benefit of our clients.
   2. Technology & Human Capital – Strong investment in both technology and people to ensure coordinated, high-quality services delivered with efficiency and ethical commitment.
   3. Business Partnership – Comprehensive expertise and innovative strategies aimed at addressing bespoke legal challenges. “We are our client’s partner in business.”

Farroco Abreu Advogados’s commitment to excellence and value-driven legal services has been consistently recognized by the market and specialized publications (see more details here). The firm’s team includes lawyers with international academic and professional backgrounds and maintains close — yet independent — relationships with key global business hubs, particularly in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

Main Practice Areas:

Farroco Abreu Advogados has outstanding expertise in Private Wealth Law/Wealth Management, Tax Non-contentious/Litigation, and Corporate/M&A. The firm also provides complementary service lines in areas such as Contracts, Employment, Litigation, and Regulatory Law.

Tax Non-contentious

Main Activities

Farroco Abreu Advogados is a law firm with outstanding expertise in Tax matters, especially Tax Consultancy. We also have great expertise in assisting High-Net-Worth Individuals with contentious matters related to this field.

Our team often provide preventive consultancy in administrative procedures for refunding and offsetting taxes, which have a huge impact on companies, to avoid questioning by the tax authorities.

Our team is known for providing domestic and international tax planning for companies and individuals, especially when it comes to legal advice on the interpretation and application of tax rules, for foreign financing, royalty and licensing payments, transfer pricing, thin capitalization and import and export of goods and/or services.

Specialities & Strengths:

Our department is wellknown for its capacity to assist clients in strategic tax consultancy cases involving State Tax on Goods and Services (ICMS), Tax on Industrialized Products (IPI), Social Contributions (PIS/COFINS), Services Tax (ISS), Corporate Income Tax (IRPJ), and Individual Income Tax (IRPF). Furthermore, we are specifically sought after by clients who require risk evaluation and strategy development for judicial and administrative disputes.

As experts in consultancy tax matters, Farroco Abreu Advogados is ready to assist its clients with tailor-made solutions that assure satisfaction.Our firm is capable of analysing legally justifiable tax efficiencies for ICMS, IPI, PIS/COFINS (cumulative, non-cumulative and single-phase) and ISS purposes.

Corporate

Main Activities

In Corporate Law, Farroco Abreu Advogados advises on a wide range of matters, including corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), investments, asset sales, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions. The firm also assists clients with finance-related documentation, legal audits, and comprehensive due diligence processes that ensure full compliance and mitigate transactional risks.

Specialities & Strengths:

Farroco Abreu Advogados is widely recognized for its expertise in handling complex, cross-border, and high-value M&A transactions, representing both domestic and international clients in sophisticated deals. The team is also sought after by companies undergoing major corporate restructurings, delivering seamless execution and strategic guidance aligned with each client’s business objectives.

The firm frequently acts in strategic and high-stakes matters for renowned global corporations, managing multijurisdictional projects and coordinating diverse workstreams with precision, agility, and business insight.

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