Humberto Sanches

Practice Areas

Wealth Management and Structuring

Tax Planning

Family and Succession

Professional Memberships

- Brazilian Bar Association (States of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) – Member

- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) – Member

- American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel (ACTEC) – Member

- International Academy of Estate and Trust Law – Member

Publications

- International Family Offices Journal: Meet the Board – Globe Law and Business (published in April 2023)

- Chapter Brazil of the Law Over Borders Private Client – The Luxury Law Alliance and Summit in partnership with The Global Legal Post (published in February 2023)

- Article “Tributação na transmissão gratuita inter vivos e causa mortis de cotas de fundo” from the book “Tributação de Fundos de Investimento” (Taxation of Investment Funds) coordinated by Daniel Abraham Loria and Andrea Bazzo Lauletta (published in February 2022)

- The Private Wealth & Private Client Review (First Through the Fifth Edition,) – Law Business Research (published in 2011 Through 2016)

Languages Spoken

Portuguese and English

Experience

For more than 20 years, he has worked with strategic wealth management for families and with matters involving corporate, tax, aviation, and family law, and successions, from a Brazilian law perspective. Known in the market for his creative approaches, Humberto has a unique multidisciplinary legal experience. He is capable of understanding and solving problems in a practical and agile way whenever the subject involves individuals and family businesses.

He advises clients on how to better structure their investments, reorganize several kinds of assets, in Brazil and abroad, implement family and corporate governance mechanisms, relocation to Brazil and to other countries, as well as on how to purchase luxury goods such as airplanes, yachts, works of art, and real estate. Regarding the international work that needs to be carried out, Humberto can count on the support of a wide range of relationships accumulated over the years in several jurisdictions, lawyers, and fiduciaries, resulting from conferences he attended and cases he has worked on. During his career, he was a foreign associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, USA, from 2000 to 2001.

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