Latin America - Brazil • City focus - Brasilia

Advocacia Fernanda Hernandez

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The accumulated experience of the team at Advocacia Fernanda Hernandez inspires confidence in clients in the energy, banking, food and beverage, and infrastructure sectors seeking assistance with public law, regulatory and related contentious matters. Tax and administrative improbity litigation are a marked strength. Founding partner Fernanda Guimarães Hernandez heads the team, acting in the most prominent STF matters. She is joined by a capable group of practitioners: Luciana Marques Dos Reis Frattini, who fields expertise in public procurement; Rafaella Alencar Ribeiro, who focuses on tax matters; and Isadora Cronemberger Caixeta, who has a strong track record in proceedings before the superior courts. Rebeca Azevedo da Silva and Beatriz de Oliveira Machado also offer support in public law mandates.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Technical quality is the biggest differential.’

  • 'Fernanda Hernandez is excellent.'

Key clients

  • Jive Investments Consultoria
  • Anglo Ferrous Brazil
  • Líder Táxi Aéreo
  • Sotave Amazônica Química e Mineral
  • Advocacia Gandra Martins
  • Camargo Correa
  • Jus Capital Gestão de Recursos
  • Banco BS2
  • Dias de Souza Advogados
  • Grupo Solvi Participações
  • Andrade Maia Advogados
  • Expressa Distribuidora de Medicamentos
  • Magnesita Refratários
  • HC Pneus
  • Construtora Norberto Odebrecht
  • Ball Beverage Can South America
  • Johnson Controls

Work highlights

  • Represented Ball Beverage Can South America in a public civil suit that discussed the regularity of a normative act authorising the contracting of a 70% financing of the value-added tax on sales and services offered by the company.
  • Acted for Expressa Distribuidora de Medicamentos in a case in which the STF decided what kind of law is needed for the state to demand the differential aliquot of ICMS.
  • Assisted HC Pneus in a writ that discusses the legality of an administrative tax procedure which denied the right to homologation tax credits arising from a judicial decision.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Fernanda Guimarães Hernandez