Transport app

Tax architecture for a road transport app: We enhanced the app's attractiveness, mitigating risks for users and enabling a 21% reduction in travel costs. This included tax planning with simulations of gains and risks associated with creating a utility vehicle rental company within the group.

PropTech Investment

Elimination of contingencies before going to market: We advised PropTech ventures on eliminating red flags and securing new investment rounds.

Startup Planning

Tax planning for establishing the basic operating principles of a startup dedicated to waste management – covering the relationships between waste generators, collectors, recyclers, and final recipients

Fundraising and Scaleup

Planning for fundraising and scale-up operations for a vehicle rental and intermediary service between fuel station attendants and commercial establishments.

Tax Qualification

Opinion on the tax qualification of activities related to the development and sale of genetically modified insects for pest control.

Real Estate Fund

Consulting for risk elimination and the creation of a fund for an investor in multifamily properties – developing and managing income-generating real estate.

Real Estate Disposal

Tax advisory for the sale of AAA-grade towers from Asian investors to a consortium of Brazilian real estate funds.

Tourism Intermediation

We prepared a tourism service intermediary business to qualify as an exporter, achieving a 33% tax saving and a clear competitive advantage.

Reverse Logistics

Advisory for a company in evaluating the taxation of operations involving reverse logistics credits, either through buying and selling or via a marketplace.

Tax Incentives

We assisted a multinational dietary supplements company in establishing operations in Brazil by implementing a new supply chain and step plan with increasing stages of local production, anticipating challenges and necessary investments to benefit from tax incentives.

International Remittances

Advisory for an Israeli group in acquiring a medical equipment operation in Brazil, considering different tax scenarios on the remittance of royalties, dividends, and interest, and applying international treaties.

Debt Restructuring

We planned corporate and contractual movements for investment houses in distressed assets, allowing debt restructuring with minimal tax impact.

Receivables Investment Fund (FIDC)

Preparation of an opinion in favor of an investment bank concerning the incidence of Withholding Income Tax (IRRF) on payments related to amortization, settlement, or redemption of FIDCs held by credit securitization companies.

Logistics Restructuring

We advised a multinational household products company in validating routines, enabling a new distribution route without losing incentives from the Manaus Free Trade Zone.

Oil

Advisory for a business group in the oil platform sector, assessing risks related to the characterization of business combinations and the attribution of tax liability among group companies.

Business Restructuring

Planning for the restructuring of a business group under judicial recovery, with 40 entities dedicated to manufacturing, importing, and reselling combustion and electric vehicles.

Industrialization

Preparation of an opinion on the risks of characterizing the supply and application of food chemicals as industrialization.

Agribusiness Leasing

Consulting to assess tax burden, risks, and opportunities between toll manufacturing operations or leasing of a manufacturing plant, on behalf of a grain processor for export.

Franchise Expansion

Planning for a rapidly expanding ice cream shop chain, with industrialization models, franchises, and company-owned stores in different states.

Loyalty Program

Preparation of a memorandum addressing the accounting and tax aspects of the taxation of revenue and profit earned by a retail company within its loyalty program.

Third Sector

Advisory in the establishment of a foundation through analysis of accounting and tax aspects related to donations, examining the requirements for deductibility from taxable income for donor companies, as well as the necessary requirements for obtaining exemptions and ancillary obligations to which the foundation would be subject.

International Tax Planning

Advisory for a company on tax planning, particularly in financing business activities, considering the specificities of the activity and the fact that one of the partners is domiciled in a tax haven jurisdiction.

International Investment Vehicle

Opinion in favor of a major financial institution to enable the structuring of an international investment vehicle with direct participation from quota holders residing and domiciled in Brazil.

Transfer Pricing

Advisory for a multinational short-term rental real estate intermediary in assessing transfer pricing, cost reduction, and new tax compliance.

Holding Company

Advisory on proper tax treatment related to accounting and the calculation of benefits paid by the holding company to the family members of the controlling partner.

Wealth planning

Reorganization of governance and asset separation with maximum tax efficiency for the controlling family of a real estate conglomerate, reconciling the interests of three generations and four groups.

Asset Division

Consulting in a consensual divorce of a couple of executives in the healthcare sector, optimizing asset division and minimizing tax costs on illiquid assets.

Overseas Assets

Advisory for different family groups regarding the regularization of assets abroad, eliminating criminal, tax, and regulatory risks.

Succession Planning

Succession planning for an individual controlling a textile group, reconciling the governance of industrial plants and the division of resellers among heirs and third parties.

Startup

Assistance to startup founders in international planning and tax reduction on capital gains from investment rounds and stock vesting.

Pension Plan (PLR)

Advisory on procedural strategy, risk assessment review, and new guidance on legal arguments for a North American conglomerate, a leader in the real estate market, regarding the discussion of INSS employer contribution taxation on profit-sharing (PLR) for its employees in a case already pending in Federal Court.

Strategic Litigation

Judgment recognizing the non-incidence of ISS on a service provider with local activities and international clients, resulting in a 5% revenue saving.

ISS Intermunicipal Operations

Obtained an exclusive final decision in the country to exempt an investment fund manager from taxes on 80% of the client portfolio, related to those from other municipalities.

State Tax Assessment

Analysis of a tax assessment related to the disallowance of granted ICMS credits that were not reversed by a seafood sector company and the chances of success in an eventual administrative defense, as well as an evaluation of strategies to mitigate risks related to the same issue in other non-assessed periods.

Tax Settlements

Advisory for an agribusiness company under judicial recovery to negotiate an individual tax settlement with the Attorney General of the National Treasury.

App Transporte

Arquitetura fiscal para aplicativo de transporte rodoviário: potencializamos a atratividade do app, evitando riscos para usuários e viabilizando o barateamento das viagens em 21%, incluindo planejamento fiscal com simulação de ganhos e riscos atrelados a criação de locadora de veículos utilitários dentro do grupo.

PropTech Investimento

Eliminação de contingências antes de ida ao mercado: assessoramos empreendimentos de PropTech a eliminarem red flags e receberem novas rodadas de investimento.

Captação de Recursos e Scaleup

Planejamento para captação de recursos e operações de scaleup de locação de veículos e intermediação entre locatários frentistas e estabelecimentos comerciais.

Captação de Recursos e Scaleup

Planejamento para captação de recursos e operações de scaleup de locação de veículos e intermediação entre locatários frentistas e estabelecimentos comerciais.

Qualificação Fiscal

Parecer a respeito da qualificação fiscal das atividades de desenvolvimento e venda de insetos geneticamente modificados para controle de pragas.

Fundo Imobiliário

Consultoria para eliminação de riscos e criação de fundo para investidora em multifamily property – desenvolvimento e administração de imóveis para renda locatícia.

Alienação Imobiliária

Assessoria tributária para venda de torres de padrão AAA de investidores asiáticos para consórcio de fundos imobiliários brasileiros.

Intermediação Turística

Preparamos o negócio de intermediador de serviços turísticos para que se enquadrasse como exportador, com 33% de economia fiscal e nítida vantagem concorrencial.

Logística Reversa

Assessoria de sociedade na avaliação da tributação de operações envolvendo créditos de logística reversa, por meio de compra e venda ou através de um market place.

Incentivos Fiscais

Auxiliamos a instalação no Brasil de multinacional de suplementos alimentares, com a implementação de novo supply chain e step plan com estágios crescentes de produção local, antecipando desafios e investimentos necessários para gozo de incentivos fiscais.