Chambers Latin America – Latin America’s Leading, Lawyer for Business
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Banking & Finance: Brazil
Velloza & Girotto Advogados Associados
What the team is known for Practice best recognised for its banking regulatory and tax-related advice to financial institutions. Significant experience in lending agreements and administrative litigation.
Notable practitioners
Partner Cesar Amendolara is recognised as a banking and finance expert. Also covers capital markets, regulatory matters and corporate issues.
Tax: Brazil
Velloza & Girotto Advogados Associados
Basic facts about the department – 2 qualified lawyers
What the team is known for Specialises in corporate tax and regularly works alongside the firm’s other departments to deliver fully integrated services for its clients, most of which are drawn from the banking and finance sector.
Strengths (Quotes mainly from clients)
“They provide us with an excellent client service and the results are always exceptional.”
Notable practitioners
Rubens José Novakoski Fernandes Velloza specialises in direct tax and finance taxation. He also has notable experience in civil and commercial law.
Profile
• Managing Partners: Rubens José Novakoski Fernandes Velloza and Luiz Eduardo de Castilho Girotto
• Senior Partners: 10
• Number of partners: 10
• Number of legal counsels: 2
• Number of other lawyers: 60
THE FIRM: Velloza & Girotto is a dynamic and committed law firm engaged in sophisticated national and international practice. Since 1993 the firm provides legal advisory services to the business community in a variety of law practice areas. The diverse client base includes financial institutions, vehicle manufacturers, chemical, pharmaceutical and oil industries, foodstuff retailers and wholesalers, insurance carriers, credit card operators, hotels, construction companies and corporations focused on infrastructure and technology. With head offices in São Paulo, Velloza & Girotto also has branches in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília. Regional correspondents elsewhere ensure client coverage nationwide. Reinforcing the credibility of the firm’s name, Velloza & Girotto is rated among the leading law firms in Brazil by the main world rankings, such as Chambers and Partners, Corporate INTL Magazine Legal Award, Latin Lawyer, Análise Advocacia and others.
MAIN AREAS OF PRACTICE:
Tax: One of the most admired firms in the tax area,Velloza & Girotto has a proven and thorough capability in tax advisory and tax litigation. The firm specialises in consulting services designed to achieve tax efficiency, usually through corporate reorganisation transactions, being frequently sought to participate in sophisticated cross-border tax planning. The firm also deals with tax-related lawsuits and appeals at all levels of administrative and judicial jurisdiction, partaking in important leading cases in Brazilian case law. Additionally,Velloza & Girotto is engaged in analysing international treaties, opinions and arrangements that involve the payment of commissions, interests, dividends, royalties and other sums to companies domiciled abroad or foreign capital companies established in Brazil, in order to avoid double taxation. Integration between the firm and foreign counsels in reconciling different tax systems is one of the firm’s many recognised strengths.
Banking & Finance/Capital Markets: With reliance on nearly two decades of experience defending the interests of companies that operate in the financial sector, Velloza & Girotto assists national and international banks and other financial institutions in structuring and implementing their operations in Brazil, in addition to the creation and regulation of investment funds of all categories. The firm’s banking practice is highly acknowledged for dealing with bonds, financial products, syndicated loans, national and foreign securities issues, derivative transactions, structured finance, equity, fixed-income financial transactions, among others. The firm is also particularly active in advisory to the investment fund industry.
Corporate Law/Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A): The firm has a strong experience in M&A transactions, representing Brazilian and foreign buyers and sellers from a variety of sectors of the economy in domestic and overseas M&A transactions. The firm also advises its clients on the structuring of corporate acquisitions, transformations, mergers, amalgamations, spin-offs and reorganisations of companies in general, and the creation of joint ventures and other arrangements.
Succession / Wealth Planning: Velloza & Girotto has a dedicated team for family wealth succession planning, working in the pursuit of the optimal solution in Brazil or abroad for the protection and continuity of wealth in the client’s family. In this area, the firm advises the clients in connection with pacts, wills, family agreements and governance policies and also assists the incorporation of family holding companies.
INTERNATIONAL WORK: The firm advises the major US, Latin American, European and Asian financial institutions, insurance companies and credit card companies that operate in Brazil, as well as prominent multinational conglomerates in a variety of sectors such as wholesale, automotive, construction, energy, hotel operation and real estate.
LANGUAGES: English, Portuguese and Spanish.
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