Andrés Hernández > Brigard Urrutia > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile

Brigard Urrutia
CALLE 70A #4-41
BOGOTA
Colombia

Work Department

Tax

Position

Partner

Career

Brigard Urrutia’s tax practice partner. As a member of the Tax practice area, he advises national and international clients in a wide variety of matters with respect to local and foreign taxation. Also, he is currently involved in the negotiation of contracts, mergers, acquisitions and other commercial agreements, in relation to their tax effects and tax optimization alternatives. He permanently advises local and foreign companies in connection with the tax effects of their business development. He also has experience with the tax government and judicial litigation, tax compliance and transfer pricing.

Andrés has worked as a tax and legal consultant, as litigant and as general counsel in international companies engaged in projects in the United States and in Latin America.

Languages

Spanish and English

Education

Attorney from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogota. He holds a postgraduate degree in Administrative Law from Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario and a Master´s degree (LL.M.) in International Taxation from New York University.

Lawyer Rankings

Colombia > Tax

(Next Generation Partners)

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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.