Catalina Jaramillo > Brigard Urrutia > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
Brigard Urrutia Offices
CALLE 70A #4-41
BOGOTA
Colombia
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Catalina Jaramillo
Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Ms. Jaramillo joined Brigard Urrutia in 2007, she is Partner and Coordinator of the Tax practice area. She has worked advising national companies in matters of consulting and national and international tax planning, tax and administrative litigation, conclusion of legal stability contracts, among others. Additionally, Catalina has been responsible for the formation of the Brigard Urrutia Tax Litigation team.
Besides her litigation practice, she has been engaged in several projects for clients from a wide range of industries such as oil & gas, technology, media, communications, retail, among others. She constantly advises clients looking at potential transactions involving tax and public law matters due to her expertise in such grounds. Ms. Jaramillo is constantly involved in public law and due diligence projects.
She was a lecturer during the 11th and 12th Annual Tax Planning Strategies – U.S. and Latin America held by the American Bar Association. Ms. Jaramillo was named one of the five leading women in tax in Colombia by International Tax Review in 2017, 2018 and 2019. She is also an active member and cofounder of Brigard Urrutia’s Diversity Committee.
Languages
English and Spanish
Memberships
She is a member of the Colombian Tax Law Institute (ICDT) and the International Fiscal Association (IFA), participating as a panelist in various seminars and events organized by these institutions.
Education
She is an Attorney from Universidad del Rosario and holds a postgraduate degree in Tax Law from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Tax
(Next Generation Partners)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.
Lawyer Rankings
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