Mr Eduardo Maccari Telles > Tauil & Chequer Advogados > Rio de Janeiro, Brazil > Lawyer Profile

Tauil & Chequer Advogados
RUA TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS 31
7TH, 8TH AND 9TH FLOOR
20021-350 RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ
Brazil
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Position

Eduardo Maccari Telles is a partner in the Tax Litigation and intellectual Property practices of Tauil & Chequer in association with Mayer Brown.

Career

Eduardo concentrates his practice in trial, litigation and arbitration, tax and administrative law. His clients include national and foreign companies as well as governmental institutions, and he assists them in all types of dispute resolution for tax, civil, labor, intellectual property and environmental cases as well with tax and labor consulting.  Eduardo has experience in intellectual property litigation, actions relating to trademarks and patents, also in energy and insurance litigation as well, being responsible for coordinating the firm’s Brazil litigation practice.

Since 2000 he has also served as a state attorney in the Attorney’s Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro.  His other professional assignments have included work as a tax attorney with the National Institute of Social Security (1998-2000), as a legal counselor with Rangel, Penna da Rocha & Daiha Associated Attorneys (2000-2006), as external counsel for the Brazilian Institute of Municipal Administration (2000-2004) and as Treasury representative on the Taxpayer Council of the State of Rio de Janeiro (2004).

Languages

Portuguese, English, French

Education

Universidade Candido Mendes, Master of Law in Tax, 2004

Federal University (UFRJ) Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent), 1996

State University (UERJ) Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, 1994

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.