Pinheiro Guimaraes provides legal support across all areas of Brazil’s tax law, offering specialized services in a complex and constantly changing tax environment, assuring the client high quality personalized attention and tailormade advice. The firm advocates on behalf of companies and individuals, acting in an advisory capacity, in support of efforts to prevent tax disputes, or in defending a client in tax litigation.

The tax team excels in combining a sophisticated legal function with a solid understanding of both accounting and managerial skills, enabling it to present concrete and precise solutions, rather than simply offering theoretical advice. Acting together with the various practice areas of the office, the team is able to present a comprehensive analysis of the relevant tax issues for clients to make the best decisions, actively engaging in the analysis and development of tax structures, as well as in the discussion and mitigation of tax impacts in all the phases of a transaction.

The firm’s tax group effectively represents clients in tax disputes at all levels, in the administrative level or in the courts of justice. Its differential lies in the convergence of the tax advisory practice and the dispute-resolution experience, allowing the firm to come up with the most robust innovative strategies and evidentiary support possible.

In addition to handling a broad range of litigation matters, Pinheiro Guimarães offers tax advisory services covering the entire spectrum of tax law, whether domestic or international. Accordingly, the firm analyzes and opines on tax issues in general, regardless of whether those issues relate to direct or indirect taxes. It also advises on the remodeling of business structures, including the taxation of banks and financial transactions, and the tax impact on debt structures and capital-markets transactions. The firm is frequently called upon to provide tax services on an extensive scale in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructuring.

The tax team has the benefit of in-depth experience in providing analyses and advice on the entire range of tax questions arising in connection with the restructuring of corporate debt. It also advises clients on the tax consequences that need to be addressed in connection with various forms of estate planning.

In transactions of a corporate or capital-markets nature, the firm offers comprehensive advice regarding tax impacts in M&A, corporate reorganizations, IPOs, and follow-ons, as well as with public offerings in the debt and equity markets – in which cases tax work is customarily conducted from due diligence through the negotiation of contractual clauses in order to identify and mitigate tax risks.