Legal Awards 2020

12 Acquisition International - Legal Awards 2020 Aug20418 Best Tax Planning Specialist (Brazil): Rodrigo Martins & Ronaldo Martins & Advogados: Most Results-Oriented Taxation & Business Law Firm 2020 For more than three decades, Ronaldo Martins & Advogados has been a beacon of legal excellence in Brazil. Subsequently, it has earned double award-winning success in the Legal Awards 2020 from Acquisition International, for its results-oriented approach to taxation and business law. As well as its general excellence, the firm is being recognized for the work of its tax planning specialist, Rodrigo Alonso Martins. Join us as we find out more about this outstanding firm. ounded in 1990, Ronaldo Martins & Advogados has become renowned in Brazil for being a place where exceptional business happens. As in European countries and many others around the world, small and medium-sized enterprises are the engines of the economy and major job generators in Brazil. However, unlike what happens in those countries where the legislation is designed to protect those small and medium-sized enterprises by encouraging them and supporting them with financial incentives and resources, in Brazil they are faced with a tangled mess of laws that keep them from efficiency and productivity. This is largely down to a number of different reasons, but it is primarily due to an increase amount of spending on activities that only consume time, human and financial resources, and also create an environment of enormous legal uncertainty. With this scenario playing out across the country, Ronaldo Martins & Advogados was established as a priority to advise small and medium- sized companies to have access to the same incentives and benefits that good legal support gives to efficiency and productivity. Achieving corporate success in business is no small feat, but one that this firm helps its clients achieve on a daily basis. The necessity for proper organization within a company, as well as forward-thinking about business, facilitating and adding values, making legal information accessible and understandable, and always keeping in mind that legal services are empowering tools has never been more prevalent. By understanding this necessity, Ronaldo Martins & Advogados has been enabled to align itself with its clients, and thereby establish partnerships that are able to stand the test of time. With this advantageous position lending itself to the work that the firm does, Ronaldo Martins & Advogados gives small and medium-sized companies access to corporate legal procedures and solutions in multiple business areas. However, the firm’s true expertise lies in areas in which the clients demand new solutions, including tax law, labour law, and corporate law. F In the globalized marketplace, Ronaldo Martins & Advogados works to break the normal standards of the knowledge, thereby demystifying the law and increase corporate productivity at all levels. It has also been crucial for the team that it remains squarely focused on the client at all times. As part of that focus, the firm adopts a clear strategic guidance to add value in the conduction of the client’s business, and also in the search for results in the provision of legal services. A key part of the success that Ronaldo Martins & Advogados has achieved over the last thirty years has been the hard work and dedication of its staff. Amongst them lies one of the finest tax planning specialists in Brazil, Rodrigo Alonso Martins. In his role as tax Company: Ronaldo Martins & Advogados Contact: Rodrigo Martins Website: www.ronaldomartins.adv.br/en/