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| | | Brigard & Urrutia partner since 2009, with over 14 years of experience. Mr. Romero heads the tax, international tax and transfer pricing team as well as the Trust and Estates practice area. Before joining Brigard & Urrutia, Mr. Romero built a very diverse and unique professional experience that involves the public work at the Colombian National Tax and Customs Direction from 1998 to 2000, the tax compliance and local work at big audit firms like Andersen Legal and Ernst & Young from 2000 to 2008, and the international tax work experience at Ernst & Young LLC in New York at the Colombian tax desk in the ITS Latin American Business Center in 2005.
| | | Mr. Romero’s expertise involve advising and supporting international and Colombian companies with the tax planning in many of the most recent M&A and corporate finance deals and major investment projects in Colombia. He is also specially knowledgeable in the application of treaties to avoid double taxation and in the implementation of sophisticated international tax planning structures for ongoing business activities that include intangible protection and planning, cost sharing and service centers, business restructuring, debt push down, and definition of holding structures.
| | | | Mr. Romero earned the JD from the Javeriana University, and an LL.M in International Taxation from the New York University School of Law. He also specialised in Advance Studies in Political, Economic and Social Sciences from Notre Dame University Phoenix Institute South Bend, IN | | | Mr. Romero is professor of international taxation at Javeriana University and Externado University, as well as speaker in local and international tax seminars. He has published several articles and academic works for very important international and local tax publications, such us “Why Colombia Should Negotiate International Tax Treaties: Recent Developments and Perspectives” (2005), “Free Trade Zones and Legal Stability Agreements in Colombia” (2008), and “The Anti-Deferral Rules and The Colombian Tax Law” (2009)
| | | Academic Training
| Institution: New York University School of Law
Program: LL.M in International Taxation
Degree: LL.M
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Institution: Notre Dame University Phoenix Institute South Bend
Program: Specialization Advance Studies in Political, Economic and Social Sciences
Degree: Specialist in Advance Studies in Political, Economic and Social Sciences
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Institution: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Program: Law
Degree: Lawyer
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| | | Memberships & Distinctions
| Memberships
| President of the Tax Committee of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce
Member of the Executive Committee and of the General Council of the International Fiscal Association- IFA (Colombian Chapter)
Member of the Colombian Institute of Tax Law
| | | Distinctions
| Recognized in Tax by Chambers & Partners Latin America- 2012
Recommended in Corporate Tax by Who's Who Legal-2011
| | | Languages
| English
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