Mr Nicolás Maturana > Claro & Cia. > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

‘At the forefront of knowledge regarding new products and technologies’, Claro & Cia.‘s 12-strong tax practice routinely leverages the expertise of the firm’s M&A, capital markets, banking and project finance practices for domestic and cross-border transactions. The full-service team is also mandated to act in tax cases before the Tax Courts, as well as to advise on complex customs issues. Clients additionally turn to the group to design and implement tax efficient schemes, its assistance including analysing the tax implications of transactions or business models. Heading up the tax practice, Jorge Carraha, who ‘ensures that everything works smoothly’, regularly acts for multinational and large corporate clients on high-stakes deals; while Nicolás Maturana, who is ‘able to communicate complex matters into simple words’, predominantly focuses on M&A-related tax issues, corporate reorganisations, financing and capital markets. In the firm’s associate team, the broad workload of senior Javier Pérez covers the tax side to domestic and cross-border deals, M&As and reorganisations, the planning and structuring of multinational clients’ investments in Chile, and major tax litigation before the Chilean IRS (IRS) and Tax and Customs Courts; and tax defence and litigation specialist Javier Undurraga is a former head of the IRS’ administrative procedures department.