A Tax Partner at Baptista Luz Advogados, his practice focuses on tax advisory and tax planning for M&A, private equity & venture capital, structuring inbound (foreign investments in Brazil) and outbound (Brazilian investments abroad) transactions, corporate reorganizations, international taxation and customs, due diligence, assessment of tax risks and contingencies, structuring and sitting on tax committees, estate/succession planning and strategic tax litigation. Industry expertise includes fintechs, funds/finance, technology and tech transactions, life sciences, infrastructure, and advertising. Also admitted to the New York Bar, he has ample experience in advising foreign clients with investments, activities, or interests in Brazil.Practicing tax law since 2004, he was head of tax at other first-tier law firms. He has additional experience in business and corporate law, capital markets, corporate finance, M&A and private equity/venture capital, having worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (2010-2011). He was a Law Clerk for Justice Cezar Peluso at the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil (STF), where he was responsible for the Tax, Economic and Public Finance law areas (2005-2009).He became interested in Tax Law still as an undergraduate, realizing that it was an intersection between the legal and business/finance worlds. While interviewing a group of entrepreneurs for his research “Studies on Entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneur's Role” (scientific initiation at FGV-Eaesp, funded by a PIBIC-CNPQ scholarship), he was profoundly impacted by the greatest hurdle for doing business as an entrepreneur in Brazil: “tax system”, “tax burden”, “taxes” were mentioned as the main factor by 100% of the interviewed entrepreneurs. Since then, he has devoted his career to changing this reality as a legal practitioner and scholar.Paulo is also a Law & Technology professor at FATEC Baureri, an invited graduate and post-graduate professor in the tax area, and has published extensively, including a book entitled “International Trade Subsidy Rules and Tax and Financial Export Incentives from limitations on fiscal sovereignty to development-inducing mechanisms.” He was nominated by the Latin American Corporate Counsel Association with the distinction “LACCA Approved” (Tax) from 2017 through 2024, and as a “LACCA Thought Leader” in 2018, 2019 and 2020.An angel investor (Harvard Business School – HBS Alumni Angels of Brazil), he is a member of the Harvard Club of Brazil, in which he served as a Fiscal Board member, elected for the 2021-2023 term.