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Gabriel Paranaguá

Gabriel Paranaguá

Mail: gabrielparanagua@felsberg.com.br

Phone: (11) 3141-3644

City: São Paulo

Languages: Portuguese and English

Linkedin: Gabriel Paranaguá

Practice areas:

  • Tax

Profile

Gabriel is a partner in the Tax area of ​​Felsberg Advogados and has more than 20 years of experience in ​​tax consultancy. With specializations in International Taxation and Tax Planning (ABDF), Tax Auditing (UFRJ, 2013), and Tax Litigation (Universidade Cândido Mendes, 2008), his experience includes advising on tax planning in M&As and business restructuring, operations with telecommunications operators and satellites, software, new technologies and cryptoassets, estate planning and debt profiling, transactions with works of art and antiques, and assistance to various players in the fashion industry.

 

Recognized by Chambers Global (2024) and Chambers Brasil (2023) as “Up and Coming” (Tax: Non-contentious) and by The Legal 500 (2024) as a “Next Generation Partner” (Tax Advisory), Gabriel is a member of the Association of Brazilian Financial Law (ABDF/RJ), the Legal and Fiscal Committee of the Brazilian Association of Infrastructure and Basic Industries (ABDIB) and the firm’s Development and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committees (DiversiFeA), as well as coordinator of the Taxation nucleus under Felsberg Advogados International.

Professional Associations

  • Member of ABDF (Brazilian Association of Finance Law);
  • Member of the Tax Legal Committee of the Brazilian Association ofInfrastructure and Basic Industries – ABDIB; and
  • Admitted to the São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro chapters of the Brazilian BarAssociation (OAB/SP and OAB/RJ).

Education

  • Specialization in Tax Audit (latu sensu postgraduation), UFRJ – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro;
  • Specialization in International Taxation and Tax Planning (Brazilian Association of Financial Law – ABDF, 2008)
  • Specialization in Tax Litigation, Universidade Cândido Mendes;
  • International Tax Planning Courses (blue and silver courses) promoted by Sheltons International Tax Training Institute (SITTI); and
  • LL.B., PUC-RJ – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro.

Experience

  • An international company that owns and operates telecommunications satellites in the structuring of its operations in Brazil, tax planning for the acquisition of new satellites, corporate restructuring, and international taxation;
  • A foreign software and cloud services provider in restructuring its business in Brazil, tax planning and tax audit;
  • A foreign provider of logistics and transportation services in the spin-off of part of its business in Brazil;
  • Foreign aviation companies, in restructuring their debts in Brazil;
  • A Brazilian software and technology services provider on the sale of part of its business to Indian investors;
  • Brazilian electric energy companies, in structuring and planning their business, as well as regularizing international operations;
  • A Franco-Brazilian content and advertising agency, in structuring its business in Brazil;
  • A Danish supplier of maritime safety equipment, in tax planning and auditing, and local business structuring;
  • An international fertilizer company, in tax planning and auditing of its activities in Brazil;
  • A Brazilian engineering company, in the modeling of its infrastructure and tax audit projects;
  • Pension funds, in the survey and equalization of tax liabilities of invested companies;
  • A Japanese automaker, in the planning of an alternative energy generation project in Brazil;
  • Danish sports media company, in structuring its business in Brazil and acquiring Brazilian players;
  • Brazilian producer of refined copper, rebar, drawn wires, laminates, bars, tubes, connections and their alloys, in the renegotiating of its financial debts in the principal amount of ~USD 0,5 billion;
  • Brazilian a subsidiary of an Australian group, in the structuring of a briquetting plant project;
  • A chemical products company in the tax planning and structuring for becoming a self-producer of electric energy.

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