Noted for its ‘efficiency and excellent service levels’ Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas’ tax practice demonstrates activity across all key tax spheres, with notable offerings in tax planning, day-to-day matters, transactional support and litigation. The team’s broad experience is further supplemented by its ability to draw on tax lawyers from across the wider global firm’s international platform, which is a major asset for multinational clients. Department head Camilo Cortés sits in the tax, M&A and family wealth teams and is recommended for both contentious and non-contentious work, including transactional tax and corporate reorganisations. The group additionally draws on partners Carmen Sanabria, who handles an array of advisory and contentious work; and Ernesto Lopez, who specialises in transactional tax. Senior associate Nathalie Medina left the firm in February 2024.

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Key clients

  • Express Luck
  • Wavemaker Colombia
  • Kantar Ibope Media Colombia
  • Totvs Colombia
  • VMLY&R Colombia
  • Monjasa
  • Eurocomercial
  • Wayabero
  • The Woodhouse Partnership
  • Puerto Antioquia
  • Puertos, Inversiones y Obras (PIO)
  • BTR Colombia
  • Sabanalac
  • Artica Colombia
  • Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina – CAF
  • Banco de Occidente, Banco de Bogotá and Corficolombiana
  • Gran Tierra Energy
  • Inversiones Actual Colombia
  • Fondo Corredores Davivienda
  • CI Colombian Mint
  • Lafayette Group
  • TP Consultancy, relevant clients
  • Applus Servicios Tecnológicos
  • Deva Capital Investment Company
  • Cabot
  • Berlitz Colombia
  • Hunter Douglas
  • Ogilvy & Mather Colombia
  • Wunderman Thompson Colombia
  • WPP Media Management Colombia
  • Millward Brown
  • Rio Tinto
  • Newell Sanford
  • Sodexo
  • Strabag
  • Tipiel
  • Zambon Colombia
  • Matthew Robins
  • McGraw Hill Colombia
  • Conserba
  • Kimberly Clark Colpapel
  • Minera El Roble

Work highlights

  • Advised Santa Reyes on the sale of its operating assets to a subsidiary of Italcol, including tax issues.
  • Represented VMLY&R Colombia in proceedings before the tax authorities concerning taxes on income collected in other jurisdictions.
  • Advised Armor International on its strategic reorganisation, where it achieved fiscal neutrality through a merger.

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Practice head

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Camilo Cortés