Mr Fernando Tonanni > Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados > São Paulo, Brazil > Lawyer Profile
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados Offices
R. JOAQUIM FLORIANO
1052 – SÃO PAULO
SP 04534004
Brazil
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Mr Fernando Tonanni
Work Department
Tax and Wealth Planning
Position
Partner
Career
Fernando is a tax specialist with strong knowledge of corporate law and extensive experience in advising international and Brazilian based clients in the tax aspects involved in their businesses. His focus includes tax consultancy, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, financial transactions, transfer pricing and administrative litigation. He is a frequent lecturer in events in Brazil and abroad, besides being visiting professor of international tax law at Brazilian institutions. Fernando has previous experience in a wide scope of industries such as automotive, agricultural, banking, energy, investment funds, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, retail, services, and transports.
Languages
Portuguese and English.
Memberships
Admitted to the Brazilian Bar Association. Member of Brazilian Association of Financial Law (ABDF), International Fiscal Association, International Bar Association and American Bar Association.
Education
Received his LL.B. and a post-graduate degree in Tax Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and a LL.M. in International Tax Law from University of Leiden.
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Tax > Tax advisory
(Leading individuals)The highly rated team at Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados is ‘extremely attentive, helpful, available and very knowledgeable of tax matters’. Cross-border and domestic tax advice is a core part of the workload, which predominantly features mandates concerning direct and indirect tax, as well as customs. The team’s advisory arm is complemented by an equally strong litigation offering that is active in a wide range of administrative and judicial claims at the municipal, state and federal levels. Litigator Daniella Zagari Gonçalves, who often represents clients from the TMT, pharmaceutical, industrial and financial services, oversees the practice, where Raquel Novais
and Fernando Tonanni are names to note for consulting matters involving local and international tax. Indirect tax and foreign trade specialist Fernanda Sá Freire Figlioulo and Marco Antonio Gomes Behrndt are also noted. Non-contentious partner Fernando Colucci is highlighted for his ‘promptness and business knowledge’. The ‘super proactive’ disputes partner Camila Galvão Anderi Silva is skilled in administrative proceedings.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Corporate and M&A: High-end
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity (and renewable energy)
- Labour and employment
- City focus - Brasilia > Litigation
- TMT: Telecoms
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax > Tax advisory
- Tax > Tax litigation
- Transport: Aviation
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute Resolution: Litigation
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Hydrocarbons
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Wealth and succession planning
- City focus - Belo Horizonte > Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Compliance
- Dispute Resolution: Arbitration
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- TMT: Tech, innovation and digital business
- Venture capital
- Life sciences
- White-collar crime and investigations
- TMT: Telecoms
- TMT: Cybersecurity and data privacy
- City focus - Brasilia > Tax