Niandra Soares

Niandra Soares is associate in Tax practice at Tauil & Chequer Advogados in the Rio de Janeiro office. With over ten years of experience, she advises domestic and international clients on strategic tax matters involving corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, foreign investment, tax planning, customs issues, and project structuring.

Throughout her career, she has also worked with tax litigation at both the administrative and judicial levels and has solid experience in advising clients on complex tax matters, with a multidisciplinary approach and broad experience in various sectors, including energy, oil and gas, industry, hospitality, media and entertainment, and telecommunications.

• Represented Pluspetrol in the acquisition of the equity interests held by the sellers in Gás Bridge Comercializadora S/A (“GBC”), a company incorporated under the laws of Brazil. Assited Pluspetrol in relation to the tax aspects of the deal, including tax impacts related to the structure, certain complex associated agreements and assessment on potential tax risks.
• Advised the CNOOC Group, which through its Brazilian subsidiary has been active in the exploration, production and commercialization of oil and gas in Brazil since 2013, in the acquisition of Petrobras' 5% stake in the production sharing contract of the Búzios field, in the amount of BRL 10.3 billion. Assisted CNOOC, with TCMB’s Tax team, designing the deal structure and had a specific role in the negotiation of the impact of the Corporate Income Tax on the Consideration to be paid by CNOOC to Petrobras, identifying arguments and assisting in the negotiation on behalf of CNOOC’s position.
• Advised Bunge Alimentos S.A. in the transaction for the acquisition of CJ Selecta, the world's leading soy protein concentrate producer with a 2022 revenue of around USD 900 million, including the tax aspects of the deal, assessment of potential tax risks and advice during negotiations in relation to tax matters.
• Advised a Brazilian company on the tax aspects relating to an envisaged corporate reorganization, in order to evaluate the possibility of carrying forward tax losses of the surviving entity, for Corporate Income Tax purposes. The surviving entity held relevant amounts of accumulated tax losses, totalizing approximately BRL 7 billion.
• Advised Nestlé Brasil on the purchase of 100% of the capital of the companies of Puravida group. Analyzed several scenarios to design the purchase of 100% of the capital of the companies of Puravida group, assisted on due diligence of materialized tax liabilities, risk assessment of materialized and non-materialized tax liabilities and negotiation of the tax and indemnifications clauses of the Sale and Purchase Agreement.
• Assistance on the tax aspects of the acquisition of Som Livre by Sony Music Entertainment. Advised Sony Music regarding tax matters related to the transactions, including negotiations of the sale and purchase agreement.

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Bachelor of Law (JD equivalent)
• Fundação Getúlio Vargas, Oil & Gas Law
• Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais (IBMEC/RJ), LLM, Tax Law and Tax Accounting

• Brazil

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