Founding Partner

Prior to founding CalvetNeves, Márcio was the partner for more than two decades of a major law firm in Brazil, acting as main consultant for several multinational and national business groups. He focuses his practice in the areas of tax consulting and public policy and advises clients on mergers and acquisitions.

Brazilian and multinational companies value his unique ability to explain complex issues and policies, making them easily understood and enabling executives to make informed decisions. In addition to partnering with the client to determine the day-to-day tax strategy, his professional experience includes tax consulting on the most important projects in Brazil, such as the acquisition by a renowned European business group of industrial and mining ventures in Brazil for USD $5 billion. He also has extensive experience in structuring greenfield projects.

Earlier in his career, he spent three years at a global audit firm and was a temporary consultant to the World Bank Group – International Finance Corporation (IFC) in Washington D.C.

Márcio has an LL. M (with distinction) in Taxation from Georgetown University (USA), he holds a Master’s and is PhD student in Political Science at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from the University of Melbourne (Australia) and a postgraduate degree in Economic and Business Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas -RJ. He is a scholar of the relationship between business and government and routinely publishes articles on public policy and tax law. He has been recommended as a reference lawyer in several publications, such as Chambers & Partners (Global & Latin America), The Legal 500, Análise Advocacia and Best Lawyers. He is currently a professor of Tax Planning in the Graduate Program in Financial and Tax Law at UERJ, in the Tax Planning Course at FGV-RJ and in the Tax Citizenship course at UFRGS.