Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Brazil
Gustavo Lian Haddad
Lefosse Advogados in cooperation with Linklaters
Rua General Furtado do Nascimento, 66
1 andar
Sao Paulo SP 05465-070
Brazil
Tel: (55) 11 3024 6312
Fax: (55) 11 3024 6200
Email: gustavo.haddad@linklaters.com
Website: www.lefosse.com.br
Gustavo Haddad is the head of Lefosse Advogados (a Linklaters-affiliated firm) tax
practice. He is an expert in tax law with more than 12 years’ experience in his field. His
practice includes tax consultancy and planning, taxation of international operations/
transactions, tax advice in corporate restructuring and acquisitions, capital markets and
administrative tax litigation.
He holds an LLB from the University of São Paulo Law School (1995) and is fluent in
Portuguese, English and Spanish. Gustavo is a professor of income tax and tax planning
at the corporate and tax law programmes of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (a leading
Brazilian business school) and is a member of the First Federal Taxpayers’ Council of the
Ministry of Finance (Primeiro Conselho de Contribuintes do Ministério da Fazenda).
Gustavo was previously the head of international tax at KPMG in São Paulo and joined
Lefosse Advogados in 2003 to lead the firm’s tax practice. He has recruited new
associates, refocused the practice and significantly increased tax consultation work in
high-profile transactional and international tax matters, taking advantage of integration
with the corporate and finance practices of the firm and with the Linklaters network.
Gustavo has been named as one of the five leading individual tax advisers in Brazil by the
International Tax Review magazine and World Tax 2005 and World Tax 2006, which ranked
him as a leading individual in tax mergers and acquisitions and tax capital markets.
The tax practice of Lefosse Advogados currently comprises more than 12 fee earners,
focusing on transactional tax work on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and
cross-border operations, tax advice on domestic and international matters and tax
litigation. It has been involved in high profile transactions and tax matters for many
years and is known for its international mindset and business-orientated approach.
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