Mr Rafael Luna > Consortium Legal > San Jose, Costa Rica > Lawyer Profile
Consortium Legal Offices
BARRIO GONZALEZ LAHMANN
CALLE 21 Y 25, AVENIDA 6
SANE JOSE
Costa Rica
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Mr Rafael Luna
Work Department
Tax Law
Position
Partner
Career
Rafael is a partner at Consortium Legal – Costa Rica. With more than 26 years of experience, he specializes in taxes and transfer pricing. He has extensive experience in tax consulting, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, mainly of multinational companies, as well as local companies. He currently leads the tax and transfer pricing Practice in the areas of business analysis and counseling, being in charge of several of the most important judicial litigations in the country in this area. He is an official expert of the judiciary in transfer pricing and a regular columnist for financial magazines and newspapers.
He has been considered one of the best specialists in Tax Law by the most prestigious international legal service rating agencies, such as Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and Latin Lawyer. He has served as an IDB Consultant for the training of Tax Administration officials, Professor at the University for International Cooperation (UCI), Professor and Director of the Master’s Program in Tax Consulting and Master’s Program in Tax Law at the Latin American University of Science and Technology (Ulacit), Professor of International Taxation at the Research and Training Center in Public Administration of the University of Costa Rica (CICAP), as well as a panelist in national and international forums.
Languages
Spanish, English
Memberships
Costa Rica Bar Association
Attorney Bar Association
Education
- International Expert in Transfer Pricing, Universidad de Nebrija, Spain – Universidad Anahuac, Mexico (2005)
- PhD in Tax and Financial Law, Universidad Complutense, Spain (2000)
- Master in Economic Analysis of Law, Erasmus Programme, Hamburg – Madrid (2001)
- Master’s in business administration with emphasis on Banking and Finance, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica (1996)
- Diploma in European Institutions, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1998)
- Law Degree, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica (1994)
Lawyer Rankings
Costa Rica > Tax
(Leading individuals)Consortium Legal‘s tax practice remains a force in the market, employing the deep bench strength of locations in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua to advise banks, non-bank lenders, and local and multinational corporates – including household names such as Colgate, Walmart and Chiquita – on a diverse spectrum of matters across the practice space. With a client base spanning such sectors as consumer goods, retail, food, media, building materials, logistics, and banking and finance, the firm’s comprehensive service extends to the tax aspects of high-value, cross-border transactions and major infrastructure projects (including toll roads and port concessions), transfer pricing, judicial and administrative litigation, tax compliance and customs processes. The team is led by Diego Salto, who brings over 28 years of experience to the tax space, transfer pricing expert Rafael Luna and tax litigation coordinator Anayansi Mora. Senior associate Felipe Guevara provides key support on customs processes and on high-value infrastructure projects.