Social Security
Brazil Guide 2024 : Brazil
Band 1
About
Provided by Balera, Berbel & Mitne Advogados
Social Security Credit
- The firm develop expertise, techniques, and tools to identify and recover, safely and quickly, its social security contributions eventually collected beyond the due amount, thus customizing the operation according to client's profile.
- Payroll - The quality of each opportunity and the method of recovery are based on the management criteria adopted by client's company. Thus, the firm obtain a detailed and specific scenario of contingencies and opportunities unique, always bringing the ideal solution model.
- RAT/SAT - Using tools specifically developed for this project, the firm enable the simulation of several organizational scenarios of the company, generating alternatives for better management of the contribution.
Social Security Liabilities
- Management of social security risk (GRP) - The firm has developed a multidisciplinary project that identifies all the social security risks borne by the company, including liabilities for social security contributions and those resulting from occupational accidents, then presenting intelligent, customized, and coordinated solutions to cure or manage those risks
- Inspections - The firm has developed a procedure to handle social security inspections, conducting them in a way to reduce the impact of a possible violation notice or, at least, allow a more adequate defense.
Chambers Review
Balera, Berbel & Mitne Advogados is an acclaimed group of experts in the field, which evokes praise for its academic and practical advice on social security contributions on profit-sharing plans, legal opinion on special retirement and harmful work conditions, as well as risk assessment on recovery of social security credits. The firm is regularly engaged by clients from the banking, automotive and entertainment sectors.
Work Highlights
- Balera, Berbel & Mitne advised Via Varejo on the risk assessment of the recovery of social security credits.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"This firm is the most specialised in social security matters."
"They are extremally focused on the subject, detail-oriented and pro-business, with a skilled and proactive team. They are an asset to us, besides bringing results into the company."
"This firm is the most specialised in social security matters."
"They are extremally focused on the subject, detail-oriented and pro-business, with a skilled and proactive team. They are an asset to us, besides bringing results into the company."
Notable Practitioners
Wagner Balera is a distinguished authority, who has forged a formidable reputation as one of the country’s leading scholars and legal professionals in the field.
"He is the greatest authority on social security in Brazil."
"Professor of the subject for over two decades. He's focused on executive remuneration. Wagner is an important scholar."
"Wagner is without doubt a point of reference in social security."
Fábio Lopes Vilela Berbel is acknowledged for his precise legal work and local expertise in analysing recovery of social security credits, legal opinion on the incidence of contributions on profit sharing paid and administrative defence on regularity of taxation.
"Excellent professional with profound technical and academic knowledge."
"Fábio Berbel is one of the most skilled social security lawyers I have worked with."
Ranked Lawyers at
Balera, Berbel & Mitne Advogados
Brazil