Luiz Fernando Alouche is the head of the Labor and Employment and Social Security practices at IWRCF.
Lawyer graduated from Universidade Paulista (2001), he holds a postgraduate degree in Labor Law from Centro de Extensão Universitária (CEU, 2003) and in Corporate and Economic Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV/SP, 2006).
Luiz Alouche has 20 years of experience in representing mid-sized and large national and multinational companies, in litigation and non-litigation labor and social security matters.
He has wide experience in representing companies in investigations carried out by the Ministry of Labor and the Public Labor Prosecutor.
He also advises clients in the international transfer of employees.
Luiz Alouche has recurrently been recognized as a reference in the labor and employment practice area (Análise 500 and Legal 500). In the research carried out for the 2021 edition of Legal 500, sources described him as “a true client advocate, always available to meet the clients’ needs in a timely manner”; and stated that he “always tries to keep the clients updated with the most recent legal trends“.
Luiz Alouche was the President of the Labor Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association, Pinheiros branch (2014/2015 and 2016/2017), he is a member of the Lawyers Institute of São Paulo (Instituto dos Advogados de São Paulo – IASP) and was the Vice President of the People’s Management Committee of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce (2011/2012).
Fábio Ramos is the head of the Tax practice at IWRCF.
Lawyer graduated from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (1997), Fábio Ramos earned a master’s degree in Tax Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP, 20016) and holds an executive MBA from Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Insper, 2010). He also attended an intensive International Taxation Course at the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBDF, Amsterdam, 2007).
Fábio Ramos has a broad experience in tax restructuring projects in several sectors of the economy, as well as in tax planning (nationwide and worldwide), including transactions for the acquisition and sale of companies (M&A). His experience also includes tax litigation and due diligence reviews.
He is a member of various study groups and associations in the tax law area.
He is praised by national and international publications as a leading lawyer in his practice area.