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Villemor Amaral

Brazil Guide 2023

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Villemor Amaral

Villemor Amaral

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+ 55 21 3806 3400

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Provided by Villemor Amaral
Brazil: Transactional
Firm Details
  • Senior Partners: Alexandre Montoni, Gustavo Paixão, Hermano De Villemor Amaral (neto), João Guilherme Sauer, Vitor Carvalho Lopes


  • Partners: Aloisio Santini, Bianca Maria Pires, Camila Santiago, Carlos Eduardo Coelho, Eduardo Tranjan, Fernanda Branco, Fernando Lima Amaral, Hugo Masaki, Leonardo Mobarak, Marcelo Gomes, Marcus Francisco, Patricia Samanez, Ramiro Borges Fortes


  • Number of Lawyers:290


  • Website: www.villemor.com.br


Offices
  • São Paulo
  • Rio de Janeiro



Firm Overview

The Firm was founded by the renowned commercial law lawyer Hermano de Villemor Amaral in 1909. Since then, Villemor Amaral Advogados has being consistently growing and expanding its practice, attracting Brazilian and international clients, partners, and governmental entities.


We are a comprehensive Firm specializes in multidisciplinary operations, with the core purpose of acting as an extension of our clients’ legal department.


Today, Villemor Amaral Advogados has offices in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Brasília, with over 300 deeply skilled professionals. We have a multidisciplinary, specialized team with solid technical and economics knowledge capable of providing a one-to-one, customized service in all types of matters.


We have a creative and proactive collaboration culture, which is targeted at boosting our clients’ businesses and opportunities. Therefore, our partners keep track of and conduct the activities concerned in any issue we are entrusted with.


To represent our clients with excellence, we invest in the professional qualification of our lawyers, who are graduated from the best Brazilian and international universities, besides making a wide legal literature collection available through our private libraries.


Our accumulated experience combined with our solid evolution and result efficiency makes Villemor Amaral Advogados an unique Firm.



Main Areas of Practice
  • Administrative Law
  • Banking and Finance
  • Consumer Law
  • Contracts
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Digital Law and Data Protection
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Employment and Benefits
  • Energy
  • Environmental Law
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • Infrastructure
  • Mediation and Arbitration
  • Oil & Gas
  • Real Estate
  • Restructuring
  • Tax
Brazil: Regions

Villemor Amaral Advogados regularly provides advisory services to Brazilian and foreign companies on tax matters, instructing them in complying with their tax obligations and implementing procedures to optimize their tax burden, including other topics, such as corporate restructuring or specific projects. The Firm provide clients with its expertise, planning the most sophisticated and efficient tax structure, which includes the identification of tax benefits that may be claimed and assistance in the modeling of transactions that present the lowest tax impact.


The lawyers also have vast experience in negotiating and/or implementing tax breaks, and it is worth mentioning that some lawyers have already held government positions, especially in the tax area.


The Firm's tax team has a strong presence in administrative and judicial tax litigations, successfully defending its clients against undue requirements from different public treasuries.

Besides that, the tax team has a solid experience in matters related to the energy industry, including the renewable energy segments, representing clients at all stages of the industry chain, including energy generation, transmission, commercialization and distribution.


Brazil: Industries & Sectors
Firm Details
  • Senior Partners: Alexandre Montoni, Gustavo Paixão, Hermano De Villemor Amaral (neto), João Guilherme Sauer, Vitor Carvalho Lopes


  • Partners: Aloisio Santini, Bianca Maria Pires, Camila Santiago, Carlos Eduardo Coelho, Eduardo Tranjan, Fernanda Branco, Fernando Lima Amaral, Hugo Masaki, Leonardo Mobarak, Marcelo Gomes, Marcus Francisco, Patricia Samanez, Ramiro Borges Fortes


  • Number of Lawyers:290


  • Website: www.villemor.com.br


Offices
  • São Paulo
  • Rio de Janeiro



Firm Overview

The Firm was founded by the renowned commercial law lawyer Hermano de Villemor Amaral in 1909. Since then, Villemor Amaral Advogados has being consistently growing and expanding its practice, attracting Brazilian and international clients, partners, and governmental entities.


We are a comprehensive Firm specializes in multidisciplinary operations, with the core purpose of acting as an extension of our clients’ legal department.


Today, Villemor Amaral Advogados has offices in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Brasília, with over 300 deeply skilled professionals. We have a multidisciplinary, specialized team with solid technical and economics knowledge capable of providing a one-to-one, customized service in all types of matters.


We have a creative and proactive collaboration culture, which is targeted at boosting our clients’ businesses and opportunities. Therefore, our partners keep track of and conduct the activities concerned in any issue we are entrusted with.


To represent our clients with excellence, we invest in the professional qualification of our lawyers, who are graduated from the best Brazilian and international universities, besides making a wide legal literature collection available through our private libraries.


Our accumulated experience combined with our solid evolution and result efficiency makes Villemor Amaral Advogados an unique Firm.



Main Areas of Practice
  • Administrative Law
  • Banking and Finance
  • Consumer Law
  • Contracts
  • Corporate and M&A
  • Digital Law and Data Protection
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Employment and Benefits
  • Energy
  • Environmental Law
  • Healthcare and Life Sciences
  • Infrastructure
  • Mediation and Arbitration
  • Oil & Gas
  • Real Estate
  • Restructuring
  • Tax


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Brazil - Head office

Villemor Amaral rankings

Brazil Guide 2023
Brazil
Tax: Rio de Janeiro
1 Department
1 Ranked Lawyer
Department
Tax: Rio de Janeiro
5
Tax: Rio de Janeiro
5
Band 5
Lawyers
João Guilherme Sauer
5
João Guilherme Sauer
5
Band 5