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Tauil & Chequer Advogados Offices

Tauil & Chequer Advogados
RUA TEIXEIRA DE FREITAS 31
7TH, 8TH AND 9TH FLOOR
20021-350 RIO DE JANEIRO, RJ
Brazil
Visit website 55 21 2127 4210

Ivan Tauil

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+55 21 2127 4213 itauil@mayerbrown.com

Position

Ivan Tauil is the founding partner and Head of the tax law practice of Tauil & Chequer in association with Mayer Brown and serves on Mayer Brown’s Partnership Board.

Career

He has extensive experience in local and international taxation. He is also the author of several articles and is often a lecturer at a number of legal and corporate events in Brazil and abroad. Ivan holds an LL.M. in constitutional law and theory of the state from PUC-RJ. He is the Chairman of the National Oil & Gas Law Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association, Director of the Brazilian Tax Law Academy, and a member of the Brazilian Finance Law Association, the International Fiscal Association and the International Bar Association. In addition, Ivan is also a member of the Editorial Board of Revista Tributária e de Finanças Públicas – Ed. Revista dos Tribunais. In 2016, both Global Chambers and Chambers Latin America recognized him as one of the “Leaders in their Field” for his legal work in the tax sector.

Languages

Portuguese, English, Spanish, French

Memberships

Chairman, National Oil & Gas Law Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association

Former Chairman, Oil & Gas Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association, Rio de Janeiro Chapter

Director, Brazilian Tax Law Academy

Member, Urban Land Institute (ULI)

Member, Association for Real Estate Project Development in Brazil (ADIT)

Chairman, Science Board of the Brazilian Academy of Tax Law

Member, Editorial Board of Revista Tributária e de Finanças Públicas, edited by Revista dos Tribunais

Member, Brazilian Institute of Constitutional Law (Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Constitucional)

Member, American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham)

Member, International Bar Association

Member, International Fiscal Association

Member, Brazilian Finance Law Association

Education

Universidade de Coimbra, Specialization degree in European Law, 1996

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, LLM in Constitutional Law and Theory of the State, 1989

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent), 1987

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Bachelor of Social Science, 1987

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.

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