Carolina Bottino > Tauil & Chequer Advogados > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Tauil & Chequer Advogados Offices
RUA TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS 31
7TH, 8TH AND 9TH FLOOR
20021-350 RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ
Brazil
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Carolina Bottino
Position
Carolina M. Bottino is a partner in the Tax practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown in the Rio de Janeiro office.
Career
Carolina focuses her practice on taxation and civil law matters. She advises international oil and gas companies in their operations in Brazil on tax matters, especially regarding customs and foreign trade matters involving special customs regimes such as REPETRO and Temporary Admission. Carolina is also regularly involved in litigation issues regarding ICMS and its levy in temporary admission regimes.
Carolina has more than 16 years of experience in Global Mobility matters. Such experience includes providing consultancy on immigration, tax and social security aspects for individuals assigned to work in Brazil, as well as for Brazilian individuals assigned to work abroad. In addition, Carolina has experience in revising offer letters, adapting global policies to Brazilian legislation, revising income tax returns for individuals in Brazil, as well as assisting clients in identifying the best structures to receive foreigners to work in Brazil. Bottino specializes in tax planning for individuals, foreigners coming to Brazil as well as Brazilians living abroad, identifying the best suited tax structures.
She is the author of several articles related to special customs regimes and acts as a speaker in several congresses and seminars related to the subject. She holds a master’s degree in Legal Sciences from the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, and has specialization in Constitutional Civil Law from UERJ.
Languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Education
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Master of Law, 2022.
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Post-graduate in Constitutional and Civil Law, 2006
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Tax > Tax advisory
The ‘outstandingly responsive’ team at Tauil & Chequer Advogados is popular with clients for its ‘excellent level of technical knowledge’ in tax, its ‘extensive experience in procedural strategy, and focus on results’. The firm handles the full range of domestic and international tax matters, with the cross-border element strengthened by its association with Mayer Brown. The team is regularly instructed by major oil and gas clients, and its litigation expertise covers the administrative and judicial courts. Non-contentious work extends to direct and indirect tax issues, as well as customs law. On the consulting side, Guido Vinci, who is often instructed by domestic and international clients from the consumer goods, energy, pharmaceutical, infrastructure, TMT and financial sectors, and Flavia Cavalcanti demonstrate ‘great technical knowledge’. Clients also rate founding partner Ivan Tauil and customs and foreign trade specialist Carolina Bottino, who have a wealth of experience acting for oil and gas clients, and the ‘responsive, timely, communicative, and extremely technically thoughtful’ disputes partner Eduardo Maccari Telles.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Environment
- Public law
- Real estate
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- City focus - Brasilia > Litigation
- Projects and infrastructure
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Labour and employment
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation