Brazil

Firm overview

We understand Law as an instrument and a necessary means for the development and improvement of human and business relations. Through sophisticated legal knowledge, we seek to prevent and solve the problems encountered in business relationships, generating maximization of results to the client.

We act strategically in the planning and election of the best way, as well as in the interposition of appropriate measures and close follow-up of the cases, always seeking to reach the objectives that the client is asking for.

Our legal staff has experienced and specialized professionals. We choose the sectors of action within a strategy in which the knowledge developed are conjugated and used for a better quality of the services provided.

We operate in the following areas of law:
- Tax Law;
- Business Criminal Law;
- Compliance;
- Civil Law;
- Corporate Succession Law

Firm overview

Ayres Ribeiro Advogados is a well-established law firm with a team of highly experienced and renowned attorneys, who combine solid legal practice with academic excellence.

Our partners, associates and consultants have in depth knowledge of the economic sectors in which they act and are able to deliver tailored and high-quality legal services to both domestic and international corporations and individuals.

Ayres Ribeiro Advogados has offices in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte. The firm has a modern structure and is committed to offer agile and efficient services, through constant investments in technology and ongoing professional development.

Strategic partnerships with prominent law firms in Brazil and abroad, the team extends its legal practice to the whole national territory. Our attorneys count on main management tools to efficiently meet the requirements and demands of their clients with excellence.

Firm overview

DDTAX is a law firm focused exclusively on tax and customs, offering an exceptional level of specialization on those matters, and delivering highly technical legal opinions and efficient strategies for litigation. The firm’s support is trusted by clients from multiple sectors, such as technology, manufacturing, foreign trade, marketplaces, financial institutions, and agriculture.

DDTAX is focused on providing a highly personalized service to its clients, fully comprehending their problems, and delivering a tailor-made strategy for tax litigation and a highly technical and assertive tax consulting.

It aims to excel as a tax and customs law boutique, focused on complex and strategic demands. To that, they have developed a culture of combining academic refinement, a pragmatic approach on the problems, closeness to the client’s reality, a profound knowledge on administrative and judicial jurisprudence, and a creative thinking on the cases, being able to deliver a clinical look on strategic cases, with deep and efficient insights.

The firm was created after their partners left the Administrative Council of Tax Appeals (CARF), where they stood out with very technical and in-depth decisions, which had wide repercussions in the tax environment, bringing great prestige and notoriety to them. Two of the main partners, Carlos Daniel Neto and Diego Diniz Ribeiro, have been lawyers for a long time, both are very respected by their peers in academic and professional circles, thanks to their solid academic background and their long experience in CARF, being usually invited as guest speakers in Tax Courses and specialized seminars. The third partner to join, Antônio Atulim, is a former (retired) Tax Auditor from Federal Revenue Office, who worked as a Tax Judge at CARF for 13 years and joined the firm to strengthen both litigation and consultancy expertise.

Firm overview

Mello Torres is a full-service firm that allies the expertise of renowned professionals with deep experience in the corporate and financial world and the enthusiasm of the new generation of distinguished lawyers with solid academic background and international experience.

We stand as a valued strategic partner for our clients with a hands-on approach, providing highly technically and business oriented legal advice, with an acute sense of market practices.

Firm overview

CGM was founded by an experienced group of partners who have been working together for more than two decades and were joined by other partners coming from reputable law firms.

CGM enjoys strong client and market recognition as acknowledged in important international publications and rankings. The firm’s service model focuses on solving its clients’ issues in a responsive, efficient, and business-oriented manner, combining technical expertise and creativity.

With a team of professionals graduated from reputable Brazilian law schools, many of the firm’s lawyers have also obtained master’s degrees and other qualifications abroad and have worked outside of Brazil.

CGM has a tight-knit network of partnerships, which allows it to provide services throughout Brazil and coordinate multijurisdictional projects in Latin America. The team works at a very fast pace and has in-depth knowledge of the law and business environment of the region.

CGM positions itself as a “client-service firm”, which means it is prepared to assist its clients from the most sophisticated transactions to the management of their daily legal routine. CGM is keen on spotting issues but equally committed to addressing them. The firm’s team eagerly pursues solutions to help clients do business and achieve their goals. In addition, the firm’s professionals’ long-term experience working with international clients results in the ability to explain the Brazilian legal system to foreigners in a very practical way and in being sensitive to the cultural differences of doing business in Brazil and elsewhere.

CGM assists domestic and foreign clients from various industries, with strong expertise in agribusiness, automotive, banking, chemicals, construction, defense, e-commerce, energy, healthcare, heavy industry, hospitality and leisure, information technology, infrastructure, real estate, insurance, logistics, pharmaceutical, medical, professional, and regulated services, retail, wholesale and transportation.

Firm overview

Finocchio & Ustra Sociedade de Advogados started with the dream to fill a gap in the State of São Paulo's countryside’s market and build a full-service office that could compete with the most admired offices in Brazil.

Focused on developing effective and reliable legal solutions, highly qualified professionals, and working closely with clients, we gained market share and currently have in our client portfolio national and international companies of all sizes, and from all business segments.

We have made investments in corporate governance and in our management model; such as our participation in the Partners for Excellence Program (PAEX) of Fundação Dom Cabral, which is one of the best business schools in the world.

With our future and the sustainability of the firm in mind, in 2019 we launched our innovation platform: Future in Us (https://www.futurein.us/en/), as we believe in the rapid and disruptive evolution of law. We also believe that the best way to get to know us is by understanding our ideology. Thus, we make every possible effort and initiative to daily incorporate it into our culture.

Our vision

To be a benchmark firm, sustainable and timeless, in an ever-changing corporate environment.

Our mission

To understand and improve our clients' businesses, delivering results through strategic, innovative, reliable, and effective solutions.

Our purpose

To fulfill our mission in an ethical and synergetic environment, developing people with respect and transparency.

Our values

We believe in and are guided by our values:

• We are committed to excellence and result delivering
• We act ethically with integrity and transparency
• We value our clients and work to exceed expectations
• We value promptness and responsiveness
• We are assertive through clarity
• We are passionate about what we do
• We cherish team spirit, an easy-going, and inspiring work environment
• Our team is our greatest asset