Mr Guido Vinci > 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

Guido Vinci is a partner in the Tax practice of Tauil & Chequer in association with Mayer Brown.

Career

Guido Vinci has extensive experience in tax planning, tax consulting and tax litigation, in particular in connection with M&A transactions, foreign investment, VAT (ICMS) issues and capital markets. His clients include Brazilian and international companies from a variety of industry sectors, such as consumer goods, industrial goods and services, energy (oil and gas), pharmaceutical, hospitality and leisure (hotel and resorts), infrastructure, media and entertainment, financial and banking services, technology (telecommunications) and retail, real estate and life sciences.

Guido started his career in 1989 as a member of KPMG’s tax department and left KPMG as a senior tax manager until 1996. In the same year, Guido joined a prominent Brazilian law firm as a founding partner of the tax department and stayed until 2006. In 2007, he joined another prominent Brazilian law firm as a partner. He has been a partner at Tauil & Chequer Advogados since 2015.

Languages

Portuguese, English, Italian, French

Memberships

Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)

Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA)

Former president of the Fiscal Council of TIM S.A.

Education

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent), 1991

Graduate Studies on International Tax Law, Robert Kennedy College, Zurich, Switzerland, 2001

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.