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Tax Litigation: The Elite

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Provided by Bichara Advogados

Our Tax team is one of the biggest top Brazilian law firms, with over 180 professionals, including partners, associates, administrative employees, and interns.


Our Firm provides legal assistance both in the advisory area, with the elaboration of all types of legal opinions and tax planning, whether for legal entities or natural persons (wealth planning), as well as in the litigation area, in an administrative or judicial scope, in all instances, especially with sponsorship and intervention in processes of general repercussion (STF) or representative of controversy (STJ).


In the past year, we advised companies and representative associations mainly in the following economic sectors: automotive, telecommunications, fuel, technology, insurance, food and beverage, energy, cement, shopping malls, financial, healthcare, logistics, construction, and others.


In the Litigation field, our Firm has been active in plenty of tax settlements achieved with the Federal Government, which was able to extremely reduce litigiousness involving BRL billions. 

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What the Team is Known For

Bichara Advogados is respected for its performance in tax litigation. The firm maintains a comprehensive practice assisting players from an array of sectors, including food and beverages, telecommunications and banking, with judicial and administrative disputes. Its experienced team often represents clients in tax infraction notices arising from direct and indirect tax matters, with a considerable track record in ICMS cases and unconstitutionality claims.

Work Highlights

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  • Bichara advised Light on a tax dispute with the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service (RFB). The dispute centres on the deductibility of non-technical losses for purposes of calculating Corporate Income Tax (IRPJ) and Social Contribution on Net Profit (CSLL).

Strengths

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Bichara's team is really excellent, and works with punctuality, technical knowledge and availability, never failing to answer.

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Different departments of the law firm work in a coordinated manner to make things work. They handle all kinds of tax issues, with a quick and prompt approach to every question that we make.

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Notable Practitioners

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Luiz Gustavo Bichara
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Luiz Gustavo Bichara
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Band 3

Name partner Luiz Gustavo Bichara is an active and well-regarded lawyer in the tax disputes arena. He has experience representing companies from industries such as oil and gas, energy and telecommunications in an array of contentious tax mandates, including unconstitutionality claims before the Supreme Court.

Bichara has a sense of urgency and the ability to coordinate the team in order to work together on highly complex issues, and with a broad awareness of the industry.

Luis Bichara has very high technical capacity and works with the gift of speech. He has an enormous ability to anticipate movements and simplify discussions.

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Luiz Gustavo Bichara
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Luiz Gustavo Bichara
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