Brazil: Contentious
Practice Areas
Álvaro Lucasechi is a partner in the Tax department, highly experienced in indirect taxes, covering ICMS (State VAT), IPI (Excise Tax), ISS (Municipal Service Tax), and PIS/COFINS (Social Security Contributions). With solid expertise with special tax regimes, he assists clients in identifying tax opportunities to achieve tax efficiency and implementing new business models to reduce risks in the supply structure. His vast expertise with indirect taxes allows him to provide customized technical legal advice attuned to the clients’ businesses.
In addition, his experience in administrative tax litigation nurtured a precious knowledge of the different State and Municipal legislation, which helps defend clients’ positions all over the country. Finally, he assists clients in tax inspections avoiding tax assessments. He is particularly experienced in taxation of the following sectors: automotive, pharmaceutical and online retail.
Career
Menezes e Lopes Advogados, São Paulo, 2002-2003
Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga, São Paulo, 2003-2005
Ippolito, Rivitti, Dias e Rodrigues, São Paulo, 2005-2006
Lacaz Martins, Halembeck, Pereira Neto, Gurevich & Schoueri, São Paulo, 2006-2007
KLA, 2007 - current
Brazil: Transactional
Practice Areas
Álvaro Lucasechi is a partner in the Tax department, highly experienced in indirect taxes, covering ICMS (State VAT), IPI (Excise Tax), ISS (Municipal Service Tax), and PIS/COFINS (Social Security Contributions). With solid expertise with special tax regimes, he assists clients in identifying tax opportunities to achieve tax efficiency and implementing new business models to reduce risks in the supply structure. His vast expertise with indirect taxes allows him to provide customized technical legal advice attuned to the clients’ businesses.
In addition, his experience in administrative tax litigation nurtured a precious knowledge of the different State and Municipal legislation, which helps defend clients’ positions all over the country. Finally, he assists clients in tax inspections avoiding tax assessments. He is particularly experienced in taxation of the following sectors: automotive, pharmaceutical and online retail.
Career
Menezes e Lopes Advogados, São Paulo, 2002-2003
Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. e Quiroga, São Paulo, 2003-2005
Ippolito, Rivitti, Dias e Rodrigues, São Paulo, 2005-2006
Lacaz Martins, Halembeck, Pereira Neto, Gurevich & Schoueri, São Paulo, 2006-2007
KLA, 2007 - current
Professional Memberships
Bar Admissions - Brazil (São Paulo)
FMU, 2004. IBET
Specialist in Tax Law (2007). APET
Specialist in Indirect Tax (2008).
