Tax and Private Wealth

Partner

Carmen is a partner for the tax practice of Dentons Cárdenas & Cárdenas, in Bogotá, Colombia. She is a lawyer from Universidad del Rosario, specialized in Taxes at Universidad del Rosario and with a master's degree in International Business Law from the London School of Economics, where she was a British government fellow, with the Chevening Scholarship.

With more than 20 years of experience, she provides expert advice in the full range of tax matters, in both advisory and contentious backgrounds, domestic corporate taxation, outbound and inbound international investments, M&A and corporate law issues, implementation of tax planning schemes, project financing and employees’ share plans, among others.

Recently, she has been leading different transactions to simplify corporate structures with an efficient scheme from the tax perspective, to acquire companies in Colombia or to reorganize corporate or family structures looking for the best tax alternatives.

Her practice benefits from her previous experience at Arthur Andersen. She has written articles in national and international journals in the field of tax law and has been speaker at conferences of the IFA (International Fiscal Association), the ABA (American Bar Association) and the Colombian Institute of Law Tax.

Colombian Institute of Tax Law. Member, Editorial Board of the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario “Legal Issues”, 1991 — 1993.

London School of Economics, 2000, LL.M, International Business Law

Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, 1995, LL.M, Tax Law

Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, 1993, J.D