Daniel Souza Email & Phone Number

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

· Legal practice in tax litigation (as well as involvement in strategic tax litigation) before state and federal regional courts, as well as Brazilian Superior Courts, managing a portfolio of approximately 216 cases. The main areas of expertise in tax law are in the banking, telecommunications, and marketing sectors, as well as individual taxation.· Participation in audit processes (due diligence) to review tax obligations of target companies to be acquired, to analyze and reassess their tax obligations.· Providing consultancy services to clients of the Law Firm under the guidance Tax Litigation Partner.· Conducting oral arguments in regional and state courts in cases with lower economic and financial impact.· Monthly review and preparation of case reports for law firm clients.

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Tax litigation throughout state and federal courts. I customarily acted within the Brazilian Superior Court (“STJ”) drafting Appeals and Interlocutory Appeals. I am, also, responsible for providing clients’ procedure reports.o MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: (i) conducting an Interlocutory appeal where the STJ, throughout the Special Appeal drafted, reaffirmed the strict application of Brazilian Procedure Code’s Article 523, § 1st, dismissing discretionary reductions of the (10%) percentage previously set by law, (ii) a positive result in a suit aiming the dismissal of ISSQN charges against a nonentrepreneurial company, and (iii) a positive result in a suit that aimed the annulment of IPI and II taxations (within drawback system) through the use of 2 STJ’s precedents: AgInt in AREsp no. 871.981/SP and REsp no. 658.404/RJ.

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Tax litigation throughout state and federal courts, checking on precedents (current and past legislations or basic case fact-checking) aiming to relay the gathered information to our lawyers; and drafting of pleadings, answers, counterclaims, appeals, injunctions, and other filings related to Tax Law.

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

· Aid Latin America Region (LAR) Legal Team – focused on Brazil matters;· Legally review agreements such as sponsorships, service and supply agreements, adherence, collaboration for proof of concept and technical collaboration agreements, grants, donations, international distributions, co-marketing, and free lease;· Draft of power of attorneys and corporate documents (e.g. articles of incorporation);· Provide legal consulting, assisted by Intel’s Latin America General Legal Manager, to support marketing campaigns, sponsorship and co-sponsorship events, and actions opportunely conducted by the company to ensure that such actions comply with internal conduct guidelines; · Coordinate and manage outside counsel’s defense of consumer complaints drafted against Intel within Brazil, including gathering relevant information, reviewing procedural documents and appeals, and providing counsel with guidance on steps that must be followed on certain cases. · Manage and organize the legal share drive (a cloud archive), which contains all the agreements and documents related to the legal team in Latin America.

São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

· Checking on precedents (jurisprudence), current and past legislations or basic case fact-checking, aiming to relay the gathered information to our lawyers;· Draft pleadings, answers, counterclaims, appeals, injunctions and other filings related to the following areas: Civil (specially Tort Law and Consumer Protection Law), and Labor law;· Sporadically attend to Conciliatory hearings; and· Facilitating organizational efficiency and improving lawyers’ workflow.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

- Implementation of working flows to improve administration of processes;- Support to analysis of financial forecasts and responsible for overseeing the Regulatory Core’s Cost Center;- Relate with intern and extern areas aiming the acquisition of information and documents;- Manage the accounting control of the ordinary and extraordinary installment towards the National Regulatory Agency for Private Health Insurance and Plans (ANS);- Prepare managements reports highlighting the development of Core’s activities; - Follow-up the progress of administrative processes since its establishment until its archiving;- Support responses to consumer protection agencies;- Daily consult National Regulatory Agency for Private Health Insurance and Plans’ website aiming the proofing of norms, publications and omnibus opinions;- Follow the publication of relevant information about our cooperative in the Brazilian Official Gazette of the Federal Executive;- Give all necessary support for the best performance of the team.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

- Implementation of working flows to improve administration of processes;- Support to analysis of financial forecasts and responsible for overseeing the Regulatory Core’s Cost Center;- Relate with intern and extern areas aiming the acquisition of information and documents;- Management the accounting control of the ordinary and extraordinary installment towards the National Regulatory Agency for Private Health Insurance and Plans;- Prepare managements reports highlighting the development of Core’s activities; - Follow-up the progress of administrative processes since its establishment until its archiving;;- Support to responses to consumer protection agencies;- Daily consult National Regulatory Agency for Private Health Insurance and Plans’ website aiming the proofing of norms, publications and omnibus opinions;- Follow the publication of relevant information about our cooperative in the Brazilian Official Gazette of the Federal Executive;- Contribution to monitoring of the Parto Adequado Project;- Fill the Regulatory Core’s internal contracting procedures (PIC’s);- Give all necessary support for the best performance of the department.

São Paulo E Região, Brasil

- Archiving of administrative processes;- Update of several spreadsheets;- Support to the preparing of managements reports;- Support to management of accounting control of the ordinary and extraordinary installment towards the National Regulatory Agency for Private Health Insurance and Plans (ANS).

Postgraduate Degree, Tax Law/Taxation

· Tax Litigation; · Constitucional Tax Law.

Bachelor'S Degree, Law

Activities and Societies: Class Representative in 2019, and member of General Theory of Law Group for 1H 2020. GRADUATION WORK: SUBJECT.

Bachelor'S Degree, Language Interpretation And Translation

GRADUATION WORK: SUBJECT: Bilingual Glossary about Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) applying Corpus Linguistics as a Tool. ÁREAS.