Professional services companies in Brazil

Section M, professional, scientific and technical activities, holds 1,098,449 Brazilian company records as of 2026-10-10, all of them active. By state, São Paulo leads with 349,066 (32% of the section), followed by Minas Gerais (113,416) and Paraná (91,137). The largest divisions are 69 (legal and accounting activities, 323,560) and 71 (architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis, 216,598); 5 further divisions complete it. That is 10.0% of the Brazil registry in this build.

Consultancies, law and accounting firms, engineering offices, agencies and design studios. Division 70 also holds 'activities of head offices', where many group holding companies register, so it overstates consultancies. Division 69 is a channel in itself: accountants file for most small companies in Brazil and Colombia. Professional-services software, payroll, legal-tech and B2B marketing vendors buy this section. In Brazil, 100% of these rows carry an ISIC class; size is known for 73%; 13.2% have a corporate domain or HTTP-verified website; 179,852 were registered in the 12 months before the extraction. Brazilian rows are active establishments; 923,174 of them are head offices in the clean B2B universe (private, not sole-owner, name unmasked).