Established in 1993, Velloza, Girotto e Lindenbojm Advogados is a dynamic, client-committed and result-driven law firm that operates within a comprehensive and strategic range of practice areas. The legal needs of our clients in their affairs are readily understood and addressed in an effective and practical manner. To offer prompt assistance and highly specialized services, the firm is divided into work groups. Each group handles a practice area and is made up of senior attorneys, attorneys, junior attorneys and interns all of which are headed by a partner. Each group includes seasoned professionals that carry a solid academic background and extensive experience in Brazil and often abroad as well. Good intra and inter-group interaction ensures thoroughness and responsiveness and timely delivery. This operating structure, along with an acute business awareness and observance of high standards of ethical behavior in the defense of the clients’ interest and dealings, are at the heart of the prestige the firm has earned within the legal and business circles. These factors account for the firm’s emergence as one of the main providers of legal services in Brazil, assisting major national and international financial institutions, automobile and mining companies, chemical, pharmaceutical, petroleum industries, supermarket concerns, service companies such as insurance, credit cards, hotels, internet service providers and construction companies. In addition to large corporate segments, we also render legal assistance to small and medium national and international companies and individuals in their business and entrepreneurial activities. The firm remains true to its reputation of having a strong tax practice (which reputation, we are pleased to add, increasingly has been carried over to other practice areas as well). The tax practice comprises tax litigation in which we are recognized for our activeness and keenness in arguing theses at the administrative and court levels that are designed to relieve the tax burden of our clients and defend them against tax assessments. The firm represents a number of clients in their dealings with governmental bodies and agencies, such as, among others, the Federal Revenue Service, Central Bank and Securities Exchange Commission. The firm publishes twice a month a newsletter highlighting and keeping updated clients as to developments of significance in the law and its interpretation as they affect the several sectorial areas in which clients operate. Editorial activities, that include the publication of legal works and studies in newspapers of wide circulation and specialized magazines, are carried out by the firm’s members, as are participations,in conferences and seminars as lecturers, directed to the legal and tax areas. The firm’s head office is located in São Paulo at Paulista Avenue, primary financial and commercial artery of the country, and just a walking distance from the 3rd Federal Regional High Court and Central Bank of Brazil. The firm has branch offices in the city of Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Brazil’s capital. Relying on our structure we are able to assist our clients throughout Brazil We thank you for this opportunity of presenting our firm.