Mattos Engelberg Advogados provides both tax legal consulting and litigation services to national and international individuals and companies, in the most diverse Tax topics and customs fiscal issues, covering the most varied economic segments and taxation spheres involving Federal, State and Municipal Taxes.

Mattos Engelberg advises its clients in the addressing and building of solutions to litigation and tax advisory, in cooperation with other practice areas in complex negotiations and structuring of corporate and financial transactions, including:

 

• Consultative advice on direct and indirect taxes and social security contributions;

• Expertise in judicial and administrative litigation with recognized performance in the Superior Courts and Administrative Courts of 2nd Instance, especially before the CARF – Board of Tax Appeals, TIT – Court of Taxes and Duties of the Secretariat of the State of São Paulo, Council taxpayers of the State of Rio de Janeiro, among other collegiate bodies of judgment;

• Definition and optimization of tax structure(s) in the scope of corporate disputes, constitution and start-up of Brazilian companies, corporate reorganizations of national or foreign legal entities, acquisition or disposal of companies and assets, operations in the financial market and capital, projects of infrastructure (electricity, telecommunications, sanitation, gas and oil, pharmaceutical industry, etc.), investments abroad, among other operations;

• Audits (due diligence) focused on the identification of assets (subject credits of anticipated advantage) and liabilities (risk assessment) contingent and within corporate and financial transactions;

• Development of national and international tax planning, covering the analysis of operations and the application of international treaties;

• Advice on special import arrangements and temporary admission;

• Recognized expertise in advising on operations involving agribusiness, real estate developments, activities in a regulated environment, among other economic segments of activity;

• Negotiation and assistance in obtaining fiscal incentives, including regional and sectoral incentives, and special regimes at the federal, state and municipal levels;

• Review of fiscal procedures and declarations (individuals and legal entities), including the identification of contingencies;

• Installation and coordination of tax committees in companies.