Juan Carlos Casellas > Mayora & Mayora, S.C. > Guatemala, Guatemala > Lawyer Profile
Mayora & Mayora, S.C. Offices
15 CALLE, 1-04 ZONA 10, 3RD FLOOR
OFFICE 301
GUATEMALA CITY, CA 01010
Guatemala
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Juan Carlos Casellas
Work Department
Tax Law, Tax Defense, Tax Planning Trade, Transfer Pricing
Position
Partner
Career
Juan Carlos has been part of the firm since 2012 and joined as a partner in 2016. He specializes in tax matters (advisory and litigation), an area in which he has excelled throughout his career in highly complex cases. He has provided tax advice to clients such as Avianca and Ingenio Palo Gordo.
Before joining Mayora & Mayora, he was legal advisor to the Superintendency of Tax Administration (SAT) and consultant to the Constitutional Court of Guatemala, as well as researcher in tax law at the University of Salamanca. Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 have recognized him as an outstanding professional in this field.
He has been a professor of tax law at several universities, both in undergraduate, masters and doctoral studies. His publications include several articles on tax and administrative law issues, on which he also frequently lectures at national and international conferences. He also publishes quarterly tax articles for Lataxnet/WTS, a global network of tax and transfer pricing law firms, to which the firm also belongs. Lastly, he served as President of the Latin American Institute of Tax Law, the only Guatemalan lawyer to have held such position.
Languages
Spanish, English
Memberships
Guatemalan Bar Association
Education
DOCTORATE IN FINANCIAL AND TAX LAW UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA, SPAIN
DIPLOMA OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN FINANCIAL AND TAX LAW UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA, SPAIN
DEGREE IN FINANCIAL AND TAX LAW UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA, SPAIN
DIPLOMA OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN FINANCIAL AND TAX LAW UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA, SPAIN
BACHELOR OF LAW FRANCISCO MARROQUÍN UNIVERSITY, GUATEMALA
Lawyer Rankings
Guatemala > Tax
(Leading individuals)Sought out by clients for its ‘quality, empathy and agility‘, Mayora & Mayora, S.C. handles the full spectrum of transactional, contentious and compliance-related tax matters. Tax litigation is a clear forte for the team, with its recent caseload featuring a number of complex disputes over customs and transfer pricing issues. As a member of Lataxnet, the Latin American network of tax-focused firms, it also enjoys close links with international practices, which it draws upon to assist clients with cross-border tax planning and international trade matters, in addition to joining up with the firm’s offices in El Salvador and Honduras to advise on regional tax strategies. Both renowned practice head Eduardo Mayora and Juan Carlos Casellas bring noteworthy experience with the SAT to the table, Mayora as a former board member and Casellas, who specialises in transfer pricing and tax litigation, as an in-house adviser.