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Managing Partner: Paulo Fernando Melo
Quick facts
Languages

Portuguese, English, Spanish

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Indirect tax
Tax
Transactional tax
Firm overview

PFM Associados is focused on listening and adding value to its clients, offering a range of services with a single objective: to achieve results that exceed expectations.

Our purpose is to listen and fully understand our clients' problems and issues, to deal and implement technology tools that can be predictive, while also helping to manage compliance issues, reporting and filing costs. We aim to provide a seamless level of client service by adopting an innovative approach, proposing alternatives that effectively add value.

Our vison is to deliver added value through a concise and pragmatic approach, to be seen as a reliable alternative that is always open to listen and learn from our clients.

The firm has four brand pillars that form the base of all its actions and define its culture. They are the way by which the firm acts with each other and with clients.

Excellence - To practice the highest professional standards and to provide a seamless experience when interacting with clients, professionals, partners and the business community. We are committed to excellence in every activity we engage in and service that we provide.

Ethical Behavior and Integrity - Always act with ethics and integrity in all our services, decisions, negotiations, communications, market positioning and everything else we do.

Mutual Commitment - Focus on developing and nurturing a genuine collaboration spirit among our work groups, professional practices and leaders.

Diversity - Key element to embrace new ideas, promote innovation, develop our people, build our brand and have a relevant role in our community. Professional growth is based on merit, personal commitment and effective contribution to our clients and to the firm.

Key practice areas

Compliance management:
Business model optimisation
Cross-border project management
Technology services

Corporate tax matters:
Corporate taxes
Financial services
M&A
Transactions

Dispute resolution:
Audit support

Indirect tax:
Supply chains
VAT

Tax advisory:
International tax advisory
Tax consulting

Transfer pricing

Other

Sector expertise
  • Accounting
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Industrials
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Oil and gas
  • Technology and telecommunications
  • Utilities
Other offices

Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22793-081, Brazil

  • Av. das Américas, 7899 - Grupo 204 – Bloco 2
  • Barra da Tijuca -  Rio de Janeiro - RJ

Tel:      +5521991420699
Email:  contato@pfmassociados.com.br
Web:   www.pfmassociados.com.br

Address:
Avenida das Nações Unidas, 12901 - 24º Andar
Brooklin, São Paulo - SP
São Paulo, 04578-910
Tel:+5511976206236 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.pfmassociados.com.br
2026 Edition
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Tax

Paulo Fernando Melo is the managing partner at PFM Associados, a new firm established in 2017. It has two offices in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and is active within the oil and gas, energy, natural resources, manufacturing, and private equity sectors. The team specialises in general corporate tax, compliance, corporate restructuring, due diligence, indirect tax, and transactional tax, especially M&A.

The team, since 2021, has been the local advisors to Zwift when it comes to tax/corporate advisory and local business process outsourcing. The team is involved in the structuring of transactions, international tax analysis, tax advisory on indirect taxes, payroll taxes and all taxes pertaining its activities in Brazil.

Client feedback

“PFM has a whole brazilian taxes expertise.”

“Excellent services , great knowledge and cliarity to explain”

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