Daniel Duque > Brigard Urrutia > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Brigard Urrutia Offices
CALLE 70A #4-41
BOGOTA
Colombia
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Daniel Duque
Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
As a member of the tax team, Daniel advises national and foreign clients on issues related to local taxes, tax planning, application of treaties to avoid double taxation and compliance with formal tax obligations. She advises clients on corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and participates in the planning of legal defence strategies against controversies that arise with tax authorities. Likewise, she is a member of the Compensation, Benefits and Pensions team in which she advises organizations and employees on tax aspects of payroll, expatriates, permanent establishments, stock options and retirement plans.
Daniel has also taught Tax Law in the Chamber of Commerce of Bogota, and served as professor in Double Taxation Treaties and assistant professor in Corporate Law and International Business Law.
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
Daniel is a lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and holds a postgraduate degree in Taxation from Universidad del Rosario. He graduated with honours from the Master of Laws (LL.M.) program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received the Masin Family Gold Award in the Federal Income Tax class. He also has an International Financial Reporting Standards – IFRS diploma from the Universidad Sergio Arboleda.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Tax
Brigard 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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