Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Portugal
Miguel Leónidas Rocha
Deloitte
Edifício Atrium Saldanha
Pr Duque de Saldanha, 1 – 6º
1050-094 Lisbon
Portugal
Tel: (351) 21 042 75 30
Fax: (351) 21 042 79 52
Email: mirocha@deloitte.pt
Website: www.deloitte.com
Miguel Leónidas Rocha is the partner responsible for the financial services tax
department for Deloitte Portugal. Prior to joining Deloitte in 2002, he was a director at
Arthur Andersen.
Mr Rocha’s professional experience centres on tax strategy planning as regards the
structure of economic groups, compliance with fiscal and parafiscal obligations and
advising companies – in particular credit institutions, financial institutions and insurance
companies – on tax matters.
He is also responsible for the tax audit of several companies in the financial sector,
including commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, specialized credit
institutions and securities and real estate investment funds.
Mr Rocha’s major projects include:
• tax due diligence in the integration of an important Portuguese insurance group into
a European group;
• tax due diligence in the acquisition of a big Portuguese financial group;
• tax advice in several structured leasing operations, securitization tax and other
structured transactions; and
• coordination of transfer-pricing studies, with special emphasis on the financial area.
Mr Rocha has lectured and participated in various professional training courses in
Portugal, and has published several articles in newspapers and specialist taxation
magazines.
Mr Rocha graduated in law from Lisbon Catholic University (1988). He has a
postgraduate qualification in European studies from Lisbon Catholic University (1989),
and a postgraduate degree in management and taxation from the Institute of Financial
and Taxation Higher Studies (1992).
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