Adrián Rodríguez
Partner
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Tax
Brigard Urrutia
More informationBrigard Urrutia’s tax team scores highly with sources for its ‘excellent knowledge and mastery of tax legal issues’. Covering the waterfront on tax law, the practice group enjoys a particularly prominent reputation for tax structuring and transactional tax work, where it is routinely engaged by leading domestic and regional companies, including recent mandates for Valores Industriales, Transportadora de Gas Internacional and Linea 2 Metro de Bogotá. The department also houses significant contentious expertise, including on transfer pricing matters. Tax litigator Catalina Jaramillo stands out for her ’knowledge and experience’ and regularly handles complex constitutional litigation. Sh co-heads the practice in conjunction with tax planning partner Andrés Hernández, who is noted as ‘a leader in the Colombian tax arena’; and the deeply experienced Adrián Rodríguez – a January 2022 hire from Lewin & Wills, Abogados – whose broad practice encompasses international and national corporate taxation, foreign investment ,and transactional tax. Other key contacts include Daniel Duque, who was raised to the partnership in July 2023. Senior associate Zaira Cortés left in August 2022 to study abroad.
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Testimonials
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‘Among its strong points, the team is highly committed to the client's needs, to the point that it seems like an internal employee of the client, understanding the problem from the client's internal point of view, so that the proposed solutions are truly effective.’
‘Andrés Hernández is a highly committed partner, who works alongside the entire team, contributing his knowledge and experience.’
‘The team is the best in its field. It has partners with extensive experience and excellent knowledge of the sector in which we work. Associates answer inquiries promptly and sufficiently.’
‘Despite his young age, Andres Hernandez has been a leader in the Colombian tax arena for many years. He has been consistently rated and praised as innovative, thorough, and close to clients. I have witnessed all this through a long relationship with the top law firm Brigard Urrutia, and him personally.’
- ‘The team demonstrates excellent knowledge and mastery of tax legal issues, as well as great customer attention.’
- ‘Catalina Jaramillo is very up-to-date on tax issues, she brings knowledge and experience.’
Key clients
- Multienlace
- Productos Familia
- Transportadora de Gas Internacional (TGI)
- Nitro Energy Colombia
- Caribbean Financial Group
- Línea 2 Metro de Bogotá
- Linio
- Orosur Mining Limited (Minera Anzá Colombia)
- Siderurgica del Occidente
- Fanalca
Work highlights
- Advised Valores Industriales on the design and implementation of a structure to sell a significant interest in one of the major hygiene companies in Colombia, Productos Familia.
- Advised Multienlace on the preparation of two statements of claim for fiscal years 2012 and 2009 regarding the amortisation of the expense of the commercial credit triggered on an M&A transaction.
- Advised Línea 2 Metro de Bogotá on tax matters related to the construction of the metro in Bogotá.
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Catalina Jaramillo
Partner
Andrés Hernández
Partner
Practice head
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Catalina Jaramillo, Andrés Hernández, Adrián Rodríguez