Bruno Feitosa
Tax Corporate Mining Agribusiness Energy and Natural Resources
+55 31 3261 7747 bfeitosa@demarest.com.br Belo Horizonte
Partner in the Demarest’s Tax practice area at Demarest, Bruno Marques Feitosa holds a Law bachelor’s degree in Law from Faculdade de Direito Milton Campos and attended the Master’s Program in Law at UFMG (currently on hold). He has over fifteen 15 years of experience in tax law, with a strong background in tax advisory and administrative tax litigation at the federal, state, and municipal levels. Throughout his career, he has advised domestic and multinational companies of medium and largeall sizes, with significant experience in the mining, energy, infrastructure, and agribusiness sectors. His expertise encompasses direct and indirect taxes, corporate restructurings, M&A transactions, transfer pricing, and tax planning. He worked for nearly a decade at a renowned audit firm, where he held a managerial management position and completed an international assignment in Thailand, focusing on cross-border M&A transactions. He is also a professor at CEDIN – Centro de Estudos em Direito e Negócios and theand has authored author of book chapters and legal articles in the tax field.
- Advised large multinational companies in the mining and logistics sectors on compliance with the new transfer pricing rules and the additional CSLL (Pillar 2).;
- Advised a leading spodumene (lithium) mining company on a corporate restructuring aimed at defining the most appropriate structure to receive foreign investment in the amount of approximately USD 40 million.;
- Advised a major rare earth mining company on structuring a foreign capital investment, in a transaction that subsequently resulted in an overseas IPO, raising approximately BRL 1 billion.;
- Advised on the financial modeling of major CAPEX investment projects (exceeding BRL 1 billion) to assess the prospective impacts of the Brazilian Tax Reform.;
- Advised a large prominent multinational company in the planted forests sector on the recovery of PIS and Cofins tax credits, resulting in the identification of approximately BRL 30 million in recoverable credits.
- Master’s candidate in Law at UFMGUniversidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (program currently on hold)
- LL.B.,Bachelor of Laws from Faculdade de Direito Milton Campos, Belo Horizonte, Brazil – (2011)
- Author of the chapter “The Supervening Unconstitutionality of the TFRM in Minas Gerais: Demonstrating the Lack of Reasonable Equivalence Between the Actual Cost of State Activity and the Amount Charged by the State,” [A inconstitucionalidade superveniência da TFRM Mineira: demonstração da ausência de razoável equivalência entre o custo real da atuação estatal e o valor cobrado pelo Estado] in the book “Mining Law: Topics,” [Direito da Mineração: temas] D’Plácido, 2025.
- Author of the chapter “Tax Depreciation of Mining Land as a Necessary Element for the Determination of Taxable Income,” [A depreciação fiscal de terrenos de mineração como elemento necessário à formação da renda tributável] in the book “Income Taxation,” [Tributação da Renda] Editora Arraes, 2022.
- Author of the chapter “The Incidence of PIS and Cofins on Defaulted Receivables,” [A incidência do PIS e Cofins sobre a parcela inadimplida] in the book “New Legal Framework for Basic Sanitation: Administrative, Environmental, Regulatory and Tax Aspects,” [Novo Marco Legal do Saneamento Básico: aspectos administrativos, ambientais, regulatórios e tributários] D’Plácido, 2021.
- Author of the chapter “The (In)Adequacy of the Taxation of Non-Cooperative Acts in Light of the Legal Concept of Income,” [A (in)adequação da tributação do ato não cooperativo face ao conceito jurídico de renda] in the book “Agribusiness Taxation,” [A Tributação do Agronegócio] Casa do Direito, 2020.
- Author of articles published on the ConJur – Consultor Jurídico portal, with emphasis on PIS/Cofins, TFRM and administrative tax litigation [Autor de artigos publicados no portal ConJur – Consultor Jurídico, com destaque para temas relacionados a PIS/Cofins, TFRM e contencioso administrativo tributário], 2025.
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