This firm is a WTS Global member.
Marcos Martins Advogados is a law firm with outstanding expertise in Tax and Corporate. We are also strong in Dispute Resolution and Labour services.
Since its foundation in 1983, the firm has been committed to providing integrated legal solutions and resolving clients' legal challenges, both in preventive and contentious matters. We offer comprehensive, multidisciplinary legal services to clients, and provide day-to-day preventive advice, as well as full-service assistance in complex, demanding cases.
We are known for our performance based on technical excellence, knowledge of the business environment, agility, and straightforward manner.
The team is well known for its skills in structuring complex and strategic litigation and consultive cases and is specifically sought after by clients who require efficient, agile, and secure legal performance. The team’s multidisciplinary nature, combined with the seamless performance of its departments, ensures the firm's involvement in matters of national and international relevance.
The firm provides a distinguished approach in negotiations, especially in the resolution of legal disputes, with the aim of preventing and, if necessary, avoiding judicial proceedings.
The firm has a consolidated track record in risk analysis in corporate operations and the acquisition of credit portfolios, as well as in the issuance of legal opinions on the application of Brazilian civil and civil procedural law in international contracts.
In addition, the Department has considerable hands-on experience supporting clients with the development of their tax and corporate structures, providing custom-made solutions for various business models.
We are also frequently seen acting in complex due diligence, as well as analysing the procedures and strategies adopted in legal proceedings to assess the risks involved.
Furthermore, the team also undertakes matters in the judicial and administrative spheres to recover unduly paid taxes and monetise accumulated balances of tax credits, as well as providing assistance in developing corporate and tax planning models.
The firm's practice is outlined by a high commitment to ethical, social, and organizational values.
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:
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.
Araújo e Policastro Advogados has built a reputation as one of the most respected full-service law firms in Brazil, with a long-standing reputation for excellence in various areas of legal practice since its foundation in 1962.
The firm has been successful in keeping its original goal: providing high quality legal services in a professional, innovative and practical manner.
The tax practice in both tax advice and litigation is one the core services of the firm.
Our tax team is highly qualified and remains headed by partner Sylvio Paes de Barros Junior, who has been systematically recognized for his solid tax knowledge over more than three decades of practice. He also counts with young and insightful lawyers known by their meticulous and hands-on practice with prompt answers to client’s needs.
The team provides a broad spectrum of services, which include tax litigation at the federal, state and municipal scopes and also tax consulting, advising Brazilian and foreign clients in industries such as industrial goods and services, infrastructure, energy, retail and technology, real estate, pharmacy, beauty etc.
The team also provides strategic tax planning and succession advice for wealthy individuals and family groups aiming at their full tax compliance and minimizing the tax burden over possible future gains and the estate’s transmission to future generations.
As per geographic alliances, the firm is a member of Nextlaw Global Referral Network, which gathers more than 280 law firms spread among more than 160 countries and has also built a long-lasting alliance with several local specialized partners for interdisciplinary transactions, such as M&A, business constitution abroad, among others, which may demand accounting, auditing or financial experts’ approach.
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.