Brazil, the largest country in South America, borders all other countries of the continent, except Chile and Ecuador. It is also the fifth largest country in the world both by geographical area (8,5 million square kilometers) and by population (193 million inhabitants). With a gross domestic product of 2,396 billion US-Dollars in 2012 Brazil ist he seventh-largest economy of the world ranking only slightly behind the United Kingdom and significantly ahead of Russia. Gaining ever more international recognition and influence Brazil will host host both the FIFA World Cup in men’s football in 2014 and the Summer Olympic Games in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil with an estimated population of more than 10 million inhabitants. It is considered the financial and business capital of the country, as the headquarters of the country's most renowned banks and financial institutions, among them the Brazilian Stock and Mercantile Exchannge (Bovespa), and of many major corporations are located there. 63% of all the international companies with business in Brazil have their head offices in São Paulo.
ECOVIS PEMOM provides audit, tax services as well as management and financial consulting. The firm was founded in August 2012 by Marco Miranda and Odair Silva starting with one Senior and one assistant. Now, after one year of existence, ECOVIS PEMOM has 5 partners and around 20 employees and is still growing fast. The three partners who joined in the last 4 months are Marcos Urban, Emerson Fabri and Henrique Premoli. All of the partners have worked for several years at Ernst & Young and Terco Grant Thornton. Thus they represent a vast experience in their fields of expertise including audit in various segments of the domestic and international market, tax planning, tax compliance, international taxation and transfer pricing, indirect tax as well as review of internal controls, administrative and financial routines.
For more information please visit www.pemom.com.br. Further details will be shortly available at our ECOVIS internet sites.