KPMG in Chile

KPMG in Chile, which ‘delivers the highest standard of legal and tax services to clients’, is the Chilean arm of London-based multinational professional services network, KPMG. With extensive experience in the banking, mining, automotive, forestry, manufacturing, transportation, communications, technology, and energy and natural resources sectors, the large, 60-strong practice in Santiago comprises specialists in domestic and international taxation, M&A and tax disputes. It also fields experts in transfer pricing, tax valuations, individual taxation, tax compliance and labour-related tax issues. Senior partner Francisco Lyon is routinely mandated by large companies and organisations to assist with high-stakes tax issues; Andrés Martínez's practice covers the corporate and international taxation aspects of M&A, project finance, and inbound and outbound foreign investments; Juan Infante's track record encompasses multi-jurisdictional transactions and administrative processes before Chile’s tax authorities; Luis Seguel leads the firm’s tax dispute and conflict resolution offering; and Alberto Cuevas has extensive experience in the application and interpretation of tax legislation in Chile. The department further includes Antonio Guzman, whose expertise includes technology company-related tax regulations; former tax policy division leader at the Ministry of Finance, Javiera Suazo; and managing director Gloria Flores, who is ’truly fantastic’. Other names to note are directors Pablo Flores, María Francisca Nogueira and Maximiliano Rojas, along with senior manager Francisco Rocca.