Fernanda Sá Freire Figlioulo > 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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Fernanda Sá Freire Figlioulo
Work Department
Tax, Retail and Consumer, Infrastructure and Energy, Technology, Esg and Impact Businesses, Foreign Trade and Customs Duty
Position
Partner
Career
Figlioulo is specialist in indirect taxes and foreign trade, being a reference for her legal and corporate experience. She is constantly involved in high complexity matters and challenging proceedings. A large part of Figlioulo’s practice concerns providing legal assistance to companies in many tax matters, such as venture’s implementation, restructuring of corporate and business models, drafting of legal opinions, negotiation of special regimes, administrative disputes, drafting of formal consultation to tax authorities, among others. Such work involves not only matters related to indirect taxes (Tax on Manufactured Products – IPI, Tax on Services – ISS, Contribution to the Program of Social Integration – PIS and Social Security Financing Tax – COFINS, Tax on Circulation of Goods, Transport and Communication Services – ICMS), but also customs regulation, mostly in special customs regime situation.
Memberships
- Brazilian Bar Association (OAB)
- International Bar Association (IBA)
Education
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Bachelor of Laws, 1999)
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil (Postgraduation in Tax Law, 2003)
Lawyer Rankings
Brazil > Tax > Tax advisory
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