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Flavio Mifano
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Experience
Flavio focuses on tax matters involving foreign investments in Brazil, transactions involving investment funds, and transactions in financial and capital markets, including debt and equity-structured transactions, project financing and real estate. He also advises on tax aspects of business combinations, corporate reorganizations and debt restructuring.
Education
Bachelor of Laws – Universidade Paulista (Unip);
Specialization in Economy and Business Law – Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV).
Recognitions
Chambers Brazil – Tax: Non-contentious (2021 – 2025);
Chambers Global – Tax: Non-contentious (2022 – 2026);
Legal 500 – Tax (2016);
Análise Advocacia – Insurance (2020) and Tax (2023);
Lexology Index Brazil – Corporate Tax (2018 – 2021, 2023 – 2025);
Lexology Index Global – Corporate Tax: Advisory (2018 – 2021, 2023).
Brazilian government adjusts IOF and amends rules on financial income taxation
Subjects:
Brazilian Monetary Council approves new rules on concept of ‘Investment Entities’ for tax purposes
Brazil introduces 0% withholding tax regime for non-resident investors in private equity funds
Changes in the Tax Benefit for Non-Resident Investors in Brazilian Private Equity Investment Funds (FIP)
Taxation of remittances for software licensing payments reviewed in Brazil
Subjects:
DEAL: JHSF makes Brazil’s largest real estate IPO to date
Tauil & Chequer Advogados in association with Mayer Brown, Mattos Filho and FreitasLeite Advogados have helped Brazilian real estate investor JHSF launch what is thought to be the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) in the country’s real estate sector, selling a property portfolio worth 5.235 billion reais (US$975 million) through the deal.
Click here to acess the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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DEAL: Azul confirms Chapter 11 restructuring plan
Brazilian airline Azul has enlisted two Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP officers and Brazil’s Pinheiro Neto Advogados to confirm the details of its Chapter 11 restructuring plan, through which it aims to slash its debt pile by US$3 billion.
Click here to acess the deal published at Latin Lawyer.
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Funds of credit rights grow to R$630bn
With investors turning to structured credit amid a shift toward fixed-income assets, Brazilian credit rights funds (FIDCs) have swelled to R$630 billion in net assets, according to data from the Brazilian Financial and Capital Markets Association (Anbima). Market experts estimate that, given current conditions, the sector could surpass R$1 trillion within two years.
Click here and read the article on Valor Econômico Internacional.
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