Profissionais

MARCUS VINICIUS BUSCHMANN

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Phone: + 55 21 2240-3936
e-mail: mvb@bea.adv.br

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Attorney-at-Law and Consultant – Partner of  Buschmann & Associados - Advogados e Consultores

Advise in national and foreign companies in tax, corporate and civil matters. He represents and defends clients’ tax and civil matters before Federal and State Courts as well as in federal, state, and municipal public treasury agencies, coordinating, also, team in the civil and tax litigation through his tax management department. He acts as a strategic tax planner advising companies. He advises clients in the alternative resolution of litigation (arbitration), special customs systems, and other matters related to Foreign Trade.

Advise international private equity firms in merger and acquisitions as well as debt restructuring.

He has obtained expert knowledge in Petroleum and Natural gas related subjects, Navigation, Shipyard market, Chemical gas industry, as well as related to the web and in the Informatics and Entertainment Sectors.

RELEVANT AND RECENT OPERATIONS AND CASE HISTORY

o Advised national Asset Management in corporate and tax planning structuring in US$ 100.000.000,00 project..
o Advised Oil Services company in US$ 50.000.000,00  supplier agreement for the next 4 years.
o Represented and advised in Brazil an international private equity firm working in the international restructuring of a multinational group, helping to organize the debt restructuring. The project worldwide involves more than 3 billions Euros.
o Represented and advised in Brazil an international private equity firm working in the acquisition of an entertainment group in banking transaction involving more than 5 billions de Euros and 52 countries. It was one of the 20th greatest acquisitions in the first trimester in Brazil.
o Obtained important victory in tax litigation, representing and defending Multinational Entertainment Company (Record Business) in fiscal procedures regarding the income tax. The victory reduces the tax debt in 75%, economizing R$25 millions.
o Has represented Petroleum Sector Service Provider in administrative appeal submitted in tender before the Government-owned company for a contract worth about R$120 million.
o Represents and provides advice to International Shipping company on fiscal and judicial issues, having pleaded for fiscal benefits in excess of R$10 million, and proposed lawsuits and offered suggestions to recover over R$7 million in taxes.
o Has provided assistance to an International Shipping Company, providing opinions on international transactions for the payment of service renderers regarding PIS/COFINS, IRRF, ISS and CIDE taxes on remittances abroad.
o He advised a multinational company from the oil sector (block operator), by means of legal opinions and solutions in international tax planning, by means of applying conventions to avoid dual-taxation for the intent of saving around US$ 30,000,000.00 in Income Tax and CIDE on remittances.

POST GRADUATE

Master’s Degree in Tax Law
Rio de Janeiro, RJ (2002)
Universidade Candido Mendes

Post-Graduate in International Tax Law
Salamanca, Castilla y León – Spain (2002)
Universidad de Salamanca.

Extension course in Finance
Rio de Janeiro, RJ (1999)
Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais - IBMEC

ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

o Tax Adviser of SINAVAL – Shipyard Companies Union.
o Legal Director of Brasil-Russia Chamber of Commerce.
o Member of the Oil Commission from Rio de Janeiro Bar Association.
o University Professor of Tax law, Civil Process and Tax Process
o Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA)
o Member of the Academia Brasileira de Direito Tributário (Brazilian Academy of Tax Law)
o Member of the Brazilian Association for Financial Rights
o Member of the Instituto Latinoamericano de Derecho Tributário  (ILADT)
o Professor, lecturer and member of IBEF – Rio (Brazilian Finance Executive Officers Institute)
o Member of the Brazilian Bar Association - Rio de Janeiro branch

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

o “Naval construction and fiscal benefits” T&N Petróleo Magazine, number 46, March/2006”. View
o “Naval construction and its judicial mutation to the exporting activity: the REB legislation and Provisional Measure (MP) of Goods in “Major Aspects of Law 11.196/05, “the MP of Goods”, a book coordinated by Ives Gandra da Silva Martins, 2006. View
o “Naval Construction and the Exemption of the ICMS Tax” -  (newspaper) Jornal Valor Econômico – 01.31.2006. View
o Lecturer at the “Judicial and Regulatory Aspects of the Brazilian Electrical Sector” Study Group, on the subject: “Controversial Points of PIS/COFINS in the Energy Sector” administered on September 2, 2005 at the Brazilian Finance Executive Officers Institute – IBEF.
o Lecturer at the “Strategic Naval Sector Questions: Taxation and Financing” Study Group, on the subject: “controversial aspects of taxation in the Naval Sector”, administered on December 8, 2005 at the Brazilian Finance Executive Officers Institute – IBEF.
o Lecturer at the “Fiscal Legislation Alterations and its impacts on Energy Operations” Study Group, given by the International Business Communications – IBC on the subject: “Contributions to importation PIS/COFINS in Energy operations”, August 2004.
o Electronic Inspection and Fiscal Planning in Brazil. Valor Econômico newspaper, Judicial Section. 7/15/2004. View
o “The Contributions for the PIS/COFINS import and the constitutional concept of customs value” in (magazine) Revista Dialética, v. 111, São Paulo. Ed. Dialética. Dec/2004. View
o “The oil and natural gas market and the ICMS tax” (newspaper) Jornal Valor Econômico. Legislation Section. 09/25/2003. View
o “Tax planning and the risks” (newspaper) Jornal Valor Econômico. Legislation Section. Published on 12/09/2003. View
o “Tax planning as risk management” (newspaper) Gazeta Mercantil. Published on 12/17/2003. View
o “Obtaining the certificate and interlocutory injunction with a request for actual bond – principles of reasonability and proportionality” in (magazine) Revista Dialética de Direito Tributário. v. 83. São Paulo. Ed. Dialética. View
o “The ISS tax from the off-shore service providers in the exploration of oil and natural gas” (magazine) Revista T&N Petróleo, number 24 2001; View
o “The interpretation of the Constitution in Cyberspace: the digital economy and the tax law” – in New frontiers of Law in information technology and telematics. São Paulo. Saraiva. 2001 p 197. View
o “The social contributions to the SESC and the SENAC and its non-incidence on service providers” in (magazine) Revista Dialética de Direito Tributário. v. 59. São Paulo. Ed. Dialética. View
o “Extrafiscality, the principle of proportionality and the ponderation of principles in foreign trade” v. 39 - in (magazine) Revista Tributária e de finanças públicas. São Paulo. Ed. Revista dos Tribunais. View

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FÁBIO MARCHISIELLO

Mobile: + 55 21 8112-7387
e-mail: fm@bea.adv.br

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Attorney-at-Law and Consultant

Assists and provides advice to clients and companies on criminal issues, especially on the subject of Conventions between Public and Private entities, Audit Courts, Special Federal and State Criminal Courts, embezzlement, environmental crimes, fiscal crimes, crimes against intellectual property, crimes against consumer relationship, providing assistance and representing said entities in litigation before Federal and State Courts as well as independent government agencies and administrative bodies, as well as advising companies in their relationship with State and Federal police, and the Federal and State Public Attorney.

RELEVANT AND RECENT OPERATIONS AND CASE HISTORY

o Has provided advice to a large Multinational Entertainment Sector Company (music, television, Internet, software, games, technology, etc.)  on criminal procedures with the intent of protecting intellectual property rights.
o Has provided advice to Industrial Gas company in public civil lawsuit brought by the Federal Public Attorney.
o Has represented a director and other legal representatives of a large textile sector company on a social security embezzlement issue.

POST GRADUATE

Private Law and Procedural Law
Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
UNESA

ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

o Member of the Brazilian Bar Association - Rio de Janeiro branch
o Delegate of Committee: Environmental Law / Culture and Disclosure before OAB (Bar Association)/Niterói

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ANA CAROLINA SCARTON OLIVEIRA

Mobile: + 55 21 8833-3095

e-mail: acs@bea.adv.br

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Attorney-at-Law

Aids and advises clients in civil and corporate matters, referent to intellectual property (trademarks, patents, copyrights, unfair competition, and secret of business), Entertainment Law and Internet Law, helping them and representing them in litigation before Federal and State Courts, as well as autarchies and administrative agencies.

RELEVANT AND RECENT OPERATIONS AND CASE HISTORY

o She has helped, in a team effort, one of the largest holding companies in the country one of the in matters of intellectual property in the administrative and legal scope

o She has advised companies from various sectors in lawsuits, also obtaining the injunction that unleashed the preparation of Resolution 110/2004 by the Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial, which governs article 125 of Law Lei 9.279/96 (Industrial Property Act)

o She has helped the in-house legal department from traditional companies in the triage of trademarks, suggesting the abandonment, redeposit, maintenance or deposit of certain trademarks, for the purpose of reducing costs with the protection of its intellectual property, in Brazil and abroad

o She has advised companies from various sectors in matters of unfair competition, judicially and extra-judicially

o She has prepared opinions for companies in legal and administrative matters in intellectual property

POST-GRADUATE COURSES

Extension course in Intellectual Property

San Diego, CA, USA

University of San Diego

Post-Graduate in Corporate Law Direito  - Intellectual Property

Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV

ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

o Member of the The Brazilian Bar Association - Rio de Janeiro branch

o Participant in the round of debates from the International Trademark Association in matters of Domain names

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

o End of course Monograph: "The Madrid Protocol – The International Registration of Trademarks"

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SÉRGIO BRAGA FRANÇA

Mobile: + 55 9187-8333
e-mail:  sbf@bea.adv.br

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Consultant

Aids and advises national and foreign clients in matters related to safety of the environment and quality, obtaining the ISO 14001, environmental management, quality management and management in work safety.

RELEVANT AND RECENT OPERATIONS AND CASE HISTORY

o Aided and advised the oil industry in environmental matters.
o Performed a specialized consultancy in Occupational Health & Safety management system in a Soft Drinks Industry belonging to an international system.

POST GRADUATE

Doctor’s Degree in Engineering – Quality Management
Niterói, RJ
Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF

Master’s Degree in Engineering – Quality Management
Niterói, RJ
Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF

Environmental Auditor ISO 14.001 and quality ISO 9001.
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Bureau Veritas – Recognized by the IRCA

Specialization in Safety at Work and Engineering
Niterói, RJ
Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF

ACTIVITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

o Coordinator of the Scientific Production Center from the LATEC/UFF - RJ
o MBA Professor in Total Quality Management - LATEC/UFF - RJ

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

o Improvement strategies for Pratical prevention solutions regarding different riscks – XXVII – Symposium ISSA Construction Section

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RAFAEL VIEIRA BARROS

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CLARICE CZERTOK

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