Gabriel Paranaguá

Practice Areas

Gabriel is a partner in the Tax practice area of Felsberg Advogados and has over 20 years of experience in tax consulting. With specializations in International Taxation and Tax Planning (ABDF, 2008), Tax Auditing (UFRJ, 2013), and Tax Litigation (Cândido Mendes University, 2009), his experience includes advising on tax planning for M&As and corporate restructurings, judicial and extrajudicial recoveries and private debt reprofiling, transactions involving satellites, software, new technologies and crypto assets, wealth planning, and art transactions.

Gabriel is a member of the Brazilian Association of Financial Law (ABDF), and of the Legal and Tax Committee of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Base Industries (ABDIB), and serves as coordinator of the International Taxation department and the Financial Committee of Felsberg Advogados.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Brazilian Association of Financial Law – ABDF

Member of the Legal Tax Committee of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Base Industries – ABDIB

Admitted to the Rio de Janeiro branch of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/RJ)

Admitted to the São Paulo branch of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP)

Industry Sector Expertise

Retail

Industrials and Manufacturing

Logistics and Infrastructure

Languages Spoken

Portuguese

English

Work Highlights

Recently, Gabriel advised:

-An international company owning and operating telecommunications satellites in the structuring of its operations in Brazil, tax planning in the acquisition of new satellites, corporate restructuring, and international taxation;

-A foreign software and cloud services provider in the restructuring of its business in Brazil, tax planning, and tax auditing;

- A foreign logistics and transportation service provider in the spin-off and sale of part of its business in Brazil;

- Foreign aviation companies in establishing activities in Brazil and in debt restructuring;

- A Brazilian company providing software and technology services in the spin-off and sale of part of its business to Indian investors;

- Brazilian electric power companies in the structuring and planning of their businesses, as well as regularization of international operations;

- A French-Brazilian content and advertising agency in structuring its business in Brazil;

- A Danish supplier of maritime safety equipment in tax planning and auditing, and local business structuring;

- An international fertilizer company in the tax planning and auditing of its activities in Brazil;

- A Brazilian engineering company in the modeling of its infrastructure projects and tax audits;

- Pension funds in the collection and equalization of tax liabilities of invested companies;

- A Japanese car manufacturer in planning an alternative energy generation project in Brazil;

- A Danish sports media company in structuring its business in Brazil and acquiring Brazilian players;

- A Brazilian producer of refined copper, rods, drawn wires, rolled products, bars, pipes, fittings and their alloys in the renegotiation of its financial debts;

- The Brazilian subsidiary of an Australian industrial group in the structuring of a briquetting plant project;

- A chemical manufacturer in fiscal planning and structuring to become a self-producer of electricity;

- On tax planning in Brazil and abroad in the extrajudicial recovery of a publicly traded petrochemical company;

- A health plan operator in the reorganization of its activities and implementation of a shared cost center;

- A French industrial in restructuring its business in Brazil, due to an international merger;

- Creditors of retail and e-commerce companies choosing payment options provided for in the Judicial Recovery Plan;

- A state bank in the restructuring of its credits against an infrastructure concessionaire under judicial recovery;

- An American investment fund financing a class action in the UK against a Brazilian mining company;

- An American athletic footwear manufacturer in planning the transition to the Consumption Tax Reform (IBS/CBS);

- A technology company in the business of selling highway tickets in the modeling of a new business line in Brazil;

- A Spanish pharmaceutical group in restructuring its business in Brazil; and

- The international association of airlines in its tax planning in Brazil.