Flávio Yoshida

He has over 20 years of experience in Tax Law, with a broad and strategic practice focused on tax advisory, tax planning in Brazil and abroad, credit recovery, structuring sophisticated tax-driven transactions, and providing tax assistance on highly complex matters involving both direct and indirect taxes.

Throughout his career, he has built extensive experience advising clients across a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences, technology, retail, consumer goods, and other sectors intensive in regulation and innovation. He has advised national and multinational groups on structured transactions, corporate reorganizations, transfer pricing, financings, tax incentives, and strategic tax matters.

Flavio is recognized as one of Brazil’s leading tax advisory lawyers by Chambers and Partners (Tax Non-Contentious), The Legal 500 (Tax Advisory), among others.

Throughout his career, Flavio has advised domestic and multinational companies in the pharmaceutical and life sciences, technology, payments, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and services sectors on strategic and highly complex tax matters.

His experience includes:

• Structuring the tax aspects of M&A transactions, corporate reorganizations, and business restructurings involving companies, assets, and investments in Brazil and abroad.
• Leading tax diagnostic and implementation projects related to Brazil’s Tax Reform, including the review of business models, supply chains, pricing strategies, contracts, systems, and operational processes.
• Advising multinational groups on transfer pricing projects, including the design and review of transfer pricing models, analysis of intercompany transactions, application of transfer pricing methodologies, documentation, and governance.
• Structuring the tax aspects of cross-border transactions, financing arrangements, capital raisings, and financial flows between related parties.
• Identifying, structuring, and implementing federal and state tax incentives, including ICMS tax benefits and incentives for research, development, and innovation, generating significant and recurring tax savings.
• Leading tax review and tax recovery projects, helping clients identify and recover tax credits while generating substantial economic benefits.
• Representing clients in tax audits and administrative proceedings involving federal, state, and municipal taxes, including the development of strategies for tax controversy, settlement, and the negotiation of tax liabilities.
• Handling tax litigation, including defensive judicial proceedings and strategic actions aimed at securing taxpayers’ rights and challenging improper tax assessments.