Horácio Veiga de Almeida Neto

Practice Areas

Tax, International Commerce.

Career

Horácio Veiga de Almeida Neto joined the Firm in 2011 as a senior lawyer and became a partner in 2019. He is a litigator who regularly leads complex, high profile disputes in judicial and administrative courts, and is an expert in Customs Law Consultancy related to the Oil and Gas industry, with emphasis on import/export, tax customs regimes such as the REPETRO and charter agreements. He is the head of the Tax litigation Practice of the Rio de Janeiro Office and represent clients before all administrative and judicial tax courts being regularly involved in a significant number of the country’s highest-profile matters.

Professional Memberships

Horácio is a member of the Customs Commission from the Brazilian Bar Association, Rio de Janeiro Chapter and a regular speaker in the subject.

Publications

Co-author of books/articles, such as:

Maritime Law: "Contract of Maritime Carriage of Goods". FGV: Rio de Janeiro. 1st edition, 2008.

Personal

He graduated from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro with a degree in Law, and from Fundação Getúlio Vargas Rio de Janeiro with a specialization in Maritime Law. He is also specialist in Customs Law.

Clients

He advise local and multinational companies of different sectors and amongst the representative clients, most of them are services providers and the big oil companies.

Languages Spoken

Portuguese

English