The Fernandes Melo Law Firm, is headquartered in Brasilia/DF, and has officer’s representations located in Goiânia/GO, Rio de Janeiro/RJ and in Madrid/Spain, also with coordination at the national level. It operates mainly in the areas of public law, administrative, business, economic law, international, tax and banking.

The office also works on causes within the administrate agencies of the federal government, Taxpayers Council, Council for the Welfare Resources and the Administrative Council of Economic Defense - CADE and maintains broad framework for the monitoring of cases in the Supremo Tribunal Federal (Federal Supreme Court) STF, Superior Tribunal de Justiça (Superior Court of Justice) STJ and Tribunal Superior do Trabalho (Superior Court of Labour) TST. Since January 2007 has a new system of digital processes which facilitates and accelerates the monitoring and decision making of the team and its clients.

The direction of the company rests with the lawyers Cristiano de Freitas Fernandes, OAB/DF 13.455 and Jacques Veloso de Melo, OAB/DF 13.558, both with undergraduation and training by the Centro de Ensino Unificado de Brasília (Unified Education Center of Brasilia) - UNICEUB and graduate degree in tax law by the Associação de Ensino Unificado do Distrito Federal (Unified Education Association of the Federal District) - AEUDF. The first partner also has graduate degree in Civil Procedural Law for the first mentioned institution, teaches Tax and Commercial Law at the Universidade Paulista (University Paulista) - UNIP, and Civil Procedure Law at the School of Graduate in law with the certification MBA at the Escola de Administração e Negócios (School of Administrative and Business) - ESAD, occupies the post of Vice-Chairman of the Comitê de Pesquisa e Acompanhamento de Precatórias (Committee for Research and Monitoring of Public debt securities) of Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil do Distrito Federal (Brazilian Lawyers Order of Federal District) - OAB/DF, member and creator of the State Affairs Tax Committee of the OAB/DF and  full member of the Board of Commercial Federal District 2008 to 2011.

The second partner has a second graduate degree in tax law by Instituto de Brasília de Estudos Tributários (Brazilian Institute of Tax Research) - IBET, institution linked to the PUC/SP, teaches Tax Law at the Universidade Católica de Brasília (Catholic University of Brasilia) - UCB, and at the graduate institution ICAT-UDF, also occupies the post of President of the Comitê de Seleção (Committee of Lawyers Selection) of the OAB/DF.

The performance of the company already yielded some important invitations to attend workshops and lectures on the theme Tax Planning, for example, on the Federation of Trade, the ADEMI - Leaders of the Real Estate Companies Association and AMA - Association of Municipalities of Alagoas.