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Morgan & Morgan Offices
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AVE PASEO DEL MAR, COSTA DEL ESTE
PANAMA CITY
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Mr Raul Castro
Work Department
Estate Planning and Corporate Services
Position
Raul Castro de la Guardia is a Partner and heads the Estate Planning and Corporate Services Department of the firm.
Mr. Castro has almost 25 years of experience in the use of corporations as asset protection vehicles and has specialized in tax consultancy, the design and implementation of cross-border structures and corporate and estate planning.
His clients range from fellow practitioners, professionals in the financial and trust sector as well as families mainly from Europe and Latin America.
He is the President of MMG Fund Services (Bahamas) and managing partner and President of the Board of MMG Trust, S.A., a duly licensed trust company in Panama, thus his experience in the management of fiduciary structures and their uses, is extensive.
Mr. Castro has worked as an advisor to the Panamanian government regarding international tax matters, CRS and FATCA implementation and is currently a member of Panama’s tax treaty negotiation team. He has been instrumental in helping the Panamanian government in passing legislation and policies that help the jurisdiction comply with international requirements from FATF and OECD.
Mr. Castro obtained a B.A in Financial Management from The Catholic University of the Americas in Washington D.C., U.S.A. and a JD in 1996 from Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Lawyer Rankings
Panama > Offshore
(Leading individuals)Hailed by clients as ‘extremely robust and efficient‘, the fiduciary services unit at Morgan & Morgan advises family offices and HNWIs from around the world on the incorporation and administration of trusts, private interest foundations and corporations in Panama, the Bahamas, the BVI and Belize, in addition to offering corporate secretarial services. Raúl Castro, who is renowned for his advice to HNWIs on investment funds and tax affairs, took over the reins of the practice from Roberto Lewis in 2023; Lewis continues to bring his four decades of experience in wealth management in an of counsel role. Other key contacts at the senior level are Luis Manzanares (a specialist in BVI corporate law and non-traditional asset protection and tax compliance structures), Fernando Boyd (whose practice has an emphasis on advising South American clients) and former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Miguel Hincapie (who oversees the Belize office). Up-and-coming partners Fanny Evans, an expert in Caribbean jurisdictions, and the ‘brilliant‘ Laura Barrios, who heads a newly formed department focused on Bahamian professional and SMART funds, are also names to note, alongside senior associates Nestor Broce and the recently promoted Raúl Bermúdez.
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