Adrián Rodríguez > Brigard Urrutia > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile

Brigard Urrutia
CALLE 70A #4-41
BOGOTA
Colombia

Work Department

Tax

Position

Partner

Career

Adrián has more than 25 years of experience advising companies and individuals in multiple industries and projects. He has focused on international and national corporate taxation, foreign investment and matters related to business reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions and, in general, in all tax matters related to corporate and commercial law. In addition, he is the author of several publications and has been a frequent guest as a lecturer in specialized forums in Colombia and abroad.

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the ICDT.

Education

NYU School of Law. LLM International Taxation. New York (2002)
Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Posgraduate in Tax Law, Diploma of Excellence. Bogota, Colombia (1995)
University of the Andes. Lawyer Bogotá, Colombia (1994)

Lawyer Rankings

Colombia > Tax

(Leading individuals)

Adrián RodríguezBrigard Urrutia

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.