Tax and corporate law · São Paulo
Your case,readin full.
From the first document to the last — by me. Corporate tax and employment litigation, with the arithmetic checked at the same desk where the argument is written.
I answer my own messages. There is no one between you and your case.
Nege Denise de Matos Goddek · Attorney at law · Brazilian Bar OAB/SP 417.827
Reading
I read everything first. I write afterwards.
Before a single line is drafted, I read the file from the first document to the last, rebuild the chronology of what happened, and separate what is proven from what is merely asserted. It is laborious, and it is slow at the start. I work this way on every matter.
Numbers
The argument and the arithmetic, on one desk.
I work on the corporate side of tax and employment litigation: tax assessments and administrative proceedings, provisions and their risk classification, surety bonds and bank guarantee letters, and the running of a portfolio of cases. I write opinions and reports in the form a legal department actually decides from — the figure, the date, the risk, and what is still unproven. And the figures underneath an argument are checked by me, here, as part of the legal work.
The instrument
I go looking for the hole. Including in my own argument.
I use a tool that reads every document in the file against every other one: it shows where the other side’s account contradicts itself, and where mine is still weak, before a judge finds it. It decides nothing and it drafts nothing. I do. The tool exists so that my own reading has something to answer to.
Method
Nothing leaves herewithout three checks.
This is what the tool does, in three passes, before anything is filed. It does not write the filing and it decides nothing: it checks what has been written against what is actually in the case file, and returns a list of what needs looking at again.
This is a method of working, not a replacement for the work. The system flags; I read, decide and sign. The final review is always human.
Every fact against the evidence
Each assertion in a filing is checked against the documents on the record. Anything not supported by a specific document is flagged, together with where the support ought to be.
Every deadline recomputed
Each deadline is recounted from the date of publication, in working days, allowing for court holidays and suspensions — and compared with the date already in the case diary. Any disagreement between the two is reported.
Every contradiction listed
Accounts, witness statements and documents are cross-checked against one another and against what has already been said on the record. Every discrepancy found is listed for me to decide on, including the ones that cut against my own argument.
What is described here is how the work is done. No result is promised, guaranteed or estimated — neither on this page nor in a meeting (Brazilian Bar Association, Provimento 205/2021).
Practice
Five areas. Two of them are the centre.
Tax and corporate account for most of the work. The other three are handled with the same care, and all of them by me.
Tax law · Direito Tributário — Core area.
Tax assessments and administrative proceedings, tax enforcement proceedings (execuções fiscais), planning and review of the applicable regime, recovery of credits, offsetting, settlement programmes and instalment plans.
Corporate and company law · Direito Empresarial e Societário — Core area.
Incorporation, amendments and corporate reorganisation, shareholders’ agreements and governance, commercial contracts, guarantees, exit of a partner and valuation of their stake.
Employment law · Direito do Trabalho
Hiring, working hours, termination and severance; defence and conduct of labour claims; review of internal routines before they become a liability.
Family and succession · Direito de Família e Sucessões
Divorce, custody, maintenance, probate and division of an estate — and the succession planning that avoids most of it.
Civil liability · Responsabilidade Civil
Damage to property, non-pecuniary damage (danos morais) and damages for disfigurement (dano estético). Accidents, defective services and compensation claims generally — from assembling the evidence to a claim that is properly quantified.
Contact
Tell me what happened.
Write a few lines about what happened and what has been done so far. If there are documents — a notice, a tax assessment, a contract, proceedings already under way — say which. I will reply telling you whether it is a matter I take on, and what the next step would be.
I answer my own messages. There is no one between you and your case.
- Meetings
- São Paulo, Brazil, by appointment, and by video conference.
- Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm (BRT).
- Bar admission
- OAB/SP 417.827
- +5511983781132