Baker McKenzie LLP

Diogo Duarte de Oliveira is a tax lawyer and partner in the tax department of Baker McKenzie's Luxembourg office. Before joining the Firm, Diogo was tax partner and head of tax at a BeNeLux leading law firm. He was also an international tax manager with a Big Four audit firm in Luxembourg (and in Mexico City as a secondee).

Diogo focuses on advising asset managers and a wide range of private and institutional investors on fundraising, management incentive strategies and transactions structuring.

Diogo contributes to renowned international tax journals and is a regular speaker at international conferences, In 2018, Diogo was invited to the IBA Congress in Rome to address EC’s approach to Illegal (Tax) State Aid. In 2019, he presented at the IBA Congress in London the mandatory disclosures under the so-called DAC 6. Recently, Diogo has co-authored technical articles on the European Court of Justice decision on the 2019 Danish Beneficial Ownership cases; on the mandatory disclosures in the context of private equity structures; and on the Significant People Functions concept in Luxembourg CFC rules.

He is a member of Luxembourg Bar, Portuguese Bar, American Bar Association and International Bar Association and he participates in several Luxembourg tax work groups at the AmCham and the Luxembourg Banker’s Association.