Brazilian tax counsel
Strategy, controversy, tax credits, liability management, tax criminal matters, and wealth and succession — from São Paulo, in English, for companies, investors and families worldwide.
Scope
Strategy, controversy, credits, liabilities, tax criminal matters, and wealth and succession.
Clients
Foreign-headed groups, investors, counsel and families with a Brazilian tax question.
Method
Law, accounting and operations in the same analysis — written so a board can act.
Worldwide
From Brazil to anywhere. Brazilian tax made clear.
Who this is for
For general counsel, tax teams, investors, family offices and foreign lawyers who need Brazilian tax work they can brief upstairs — including files with criminal exposure.
Structuring Brazilian operations and investments so the tax map, the commercial model and the group’s risk appetite stay aligned — including, where it matters, the consumption-tax reform.
Defence in administrative and judicial tax proceedings, including assessments that a foreign group often first sees through a local controller or a Big Four memo.
Review and restructuring of material Brazilian tax liabilities, with an eye on cash, contingency disclosure and what a foreign board can actually decide.
Identification, review and recovery of Brazilian tax credits — federal and, where the file supports it, state and excise — so a number in the group pack is the same number the ledger can defend.
Counsel on criminal exposure that can attach to a Brazilian tax dispute, from the investigation stage through trial. Foreign parents and their outside counsel are instructed in English on what the file means and what the next filing is.
Tax structuring of personal and family assets with a Brazilian connection — for residents, for families with a Brazilian estate, and for investors whose succession question crosses the border.
Insights
Comparative briefing
Brazil’s consumption taxes are not a sales tax and not the VAT Directive. A comparative briefing for American and European counsel before they map the 2026–2033 reform onto the wrong model.
Read the briefingTax briefing
A practical briefing for foreign counsel, controllers and investors on the dual VAT, the 2026–2033 transition, and the decisions that cannot wait until 2027.
Read the briefingWrite in English. Engagements are scoped to the work.
