Bastos Bari Vilela Zugman Advogados is a tax and corporate-focused law firm. The team is active in pre-litigation negotiations, commercial and corporate disputes, and administrative and tax proceedings. Litigation stars Ivo Bari and Renato Vilela are lead counsel to Alatur JTB and JTB Brasil in a debt collection proceeding against its former partners in order to indemnify and hold harmless an amount of more than R$23 million regarding indemnifiable losses arising out of an enforced investment agreement. Newly added litigation stars Daniel Zugman and Federico Bastos represent the Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (IDEC) in an ongoing tax dispute before the Supreme Court. The firm was hired to include IDEC as amicus curiae and defend their interests in a lawsuit ongoing before the Brazilian Supreme Court. The suit questions the constitutionality of a decree that reduced the Brazilian excise tax from a 20% rate to a 4% rate levied on extracts for the production of non-alcoholic beverages with added sugar or sweetener. This high-profile tax dispute is being closely watched by the market and government officials.
