Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados
Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados is commended by clients for ‘seeking operational and technical excellence, while communicating assertively both with tax and judicial authorities’. The team handles a broad spread of litigation and consulting work, with a strong emphasis on direct and indirect taxes at every level. The firm is popular with major international companies and its association with Dentons makes it a strong choice for cross border-matters. Lead partners Antonio Carlos Guidoni Filho and Ricardo Braghini, who is particularly experienced in the agribusiness sector, have ’great technical knowledge of tax issues’ conveyed in an ‘understandable language’. Companies from the electricity segment regularly seek André Ricardo Lemes's advice on tax advisory and litigation matters. Other key individuals include senior associate Carlos Eduardo de Biasi, litigator Helena Vicentini de Assis, Juliana Martins Skolimovski Gaia Da Silveira and associate Thamirys Scapin who ’work in incredible harmony’.
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Testimonials
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‘Vella Pugliese Buosi e Guidoni Advogados is a unique firm due to its proximity to the client, as it shows an interest in meeting the needs of the contracting party and not just closing a job proposal. In addition to trained professionals, the firm practises flexible prices that make hiring possible.’
‘The partners that stand out are Antonio Carlos Guidoni Filho and Ricardo Braghini, for their demonstration of great technical knowledge of tax issues, understandable language, agile service and for the security that is presented in the works.’
‘A team committed to meeting the needs of the client, seeking operational and technical excellence, while communicating assertively both with tax and judicial authorities, as well as with users of process update reports (for example), who sometimes have no technical knowledge either with regard to substantive or procedural law.’
‘Juliana Silveira (partner), Helena Vicentini (partner) and Thamirys Scapin (associate) work in incredible harmony to serve us in a timely and assertive manner.’
Key clients
- Amazon Transportes
- Ambridge Europe Limited
- Atvos Agroindustrial
- Banco Bradesco
- Banco Citibank
- BTG Pactual
- Canopy Growth Brasil Biomedical
- Cerdia Brasil Industria e Comercio
- CPFL / State Grid
- Colombo Agroindústria
- CTEEP – Companhia de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica Paulista
- Energisa Group
- The Walt Disney Group
- Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
- Fraport Brasil
- Gavilon do Brasil Comercio De Produtos Agricolas
- LOLC Holdings
- Longping High - Tech Biotecnologia
- Patria Investimentos
- Rivalry Corp
- Sabic Innovative Plastics South America – Industria e Comércio de Plásticos
- SAF Holland do Brasil
- Santo Antonio Energia
- Timbro Trading
- Totvs
- Usina de Açucar Santa Teresinha
- Usina Santo Antonio
- Verisure
- ViTerra
- Zebra Technologies
- Banco Santander Brasil
- Citibank Distribuidora de Títulos e Valores Mob
- Copagaz (Copa Energia)
- Forta Holdco
- Generator And Motor Services Of Pennsylvania(Brush Americas)
- Marilan Alimentos
- State Grid Brazil Power Participações
- Tiktok
- Vodafone Automotive Telematics
Work highlights
- Assisting Fraport with the administrative discussion of several tax assessments requiring the payment of the property tax and urban territorial tax (IPTU) in relation to properties assigned to it by the Federal Government for the provision of services.
- Representing Energisa in a lawsuit filed to cancel a State VAT (ICMS) tax assessment concerning its acquisition of fixed assets needed to build the Energisa Tocantins power grid.
- Successfully representing ESPN at a first administrative level in order to cancel tax assessments related to income taxes over royalties paid in intragroup transactions.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Antonio Carlos Guidoni Filho