With our International Desk Services platform, we develop a customized management of cases involving international matters – both nationalization and internationalization, advising companies in Brazil and abroad, in all multidisciplinary legal services and international transactions, as well as in complex transnational issues.

We have our own offices in Brazil and the United States and maintain partnerships with law firms in major countries through which, together with our knowledge of tax systems, trade and import and export controls, antitrust and anti-corruption laws, allow us to develop innovative solutions for clients seeking to do business on a local or global scale.

Scope
Development and coordination of multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional work involving multinational clients through integration with the various legal areas of the firm.

Our expertise
Corporate: corporate acts involving mergers & acquisitions, members’ and shareholders’ agreements and other corporate types

Structuring of company purchase and sale transactions and due diligence; review of the transaction at CADE

• • Foreign and Brazilian investments abroad: investment feasibility and regularization before the Brazilian Central Bank
  • International agreements: structuring and negotiation of complex agreements; restructuring of international operations (joint ventures, international franchising, international purchase and sale, distribution and agency)
  • Compliance: advisory services for the implementation of corporate compliance programs

•  International arbitration and dispute settlement

• International tax planning

• Client representation for obtaining licenses and technology transfers, including protection of trade secrets
• Mitigation of legal risks associated with the use, transmission and storage of information and data; global information security and privacy (cyber security) program

Immigration: visa for investors and technicians for temporary and permanent jobs

• International taxation – corporate and individual
• International tax planning – individuals and corporations:
  • Internationalization of companies
  • Migration and change of tax residence – individuals
  • Taxation on investments abroad
• Automatic exchange of information – FATCA, CRS & BEPS

• Conciliation of multi-jurisdictional tax disputes
• Corporate Income Tax
• Individual Income Tax
• Capital Gain Tax
• Property Taxes

• Inheritance and Donation Taxes
• Tax on Payments Received Abroad
• Application and impacts of Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) Rules
• Incorporation of holding and operating companies
• Structuring of international financing
• Tax treatment for royalties, technical support and services paid abroad
• Bilateral and multilateral international agreements and agreement to avoid double taxation
• General anti-taxation rules
• Operating models and structures, corporate and permanent facilities’ profit
• Tax efficiency planning in multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions
• International trade:
  • Import and export of goods and services
• Equalization of tax-accounting criteria between multi-jurisdictional transactions
• Tax offenses

Our team has a global vision and relies on the collaboration of several partners specialized in the following areas: BPO; auditing; process management; financial activities of development in BNDES, FINAME, FINEP and investment banks; business training; logistics in the import and export of goods and services; financial services of liabilities restructuring, aiming to identify and avoid problems that may delay or make unfeasible the transactions and business, ensuring the legality and efficiency of the structure and business model of our clients.