Fuensalida & Del Valle Abogados

According to one client, Fuensalida & Del Valle Abogados is ‘the best boutique tax firm in Chile’. The 18-strong practice focuses on corporate tax planning and restructuring, the latter frequently involving cross-border acquisitions and global reorganisations. ’Offering an excellent and sophisticated service’, the team also has significant experience in private wealth management, as well as administrative and judicial tax litigation, its expertise including both tax assessments and trials. Among the department’s several highly-rated practitioners, name partner Carolina Fuensalida, who has ‘vast knowledge of tax regulations’, assists with high-stakes tax disputes, corporate tax planning, tax advisory work, and domestic and international restructurings; and wealth planning, restructuring and M&A specialist Jaime Del Valle routinely advises on the tax aspects of securities and capital markets issues. The group further includes the ’methodical, reliable and analytical’ Cristóbal Ureta, who heads up the firm’s corporate offering, along with co-heading the administrative and judicial litigation team; and Trinidad Fernandez, who leads the local tax planning department. At senior associate level, Pelayo Valdivia assists with company and family asset-related tax planning and reorganisations at both national and cross-border levels; and Felipe Fernández advises on the structuring and management of family estates, business reorganisations, and defending taxpayers in administrative and judicial proceedings.