About Our Firm Espinosa y Asociados is a leading edge boutique firm that specializes in Strategic Tax &, Legal Advisory that has played a key role in Chile’s development as a strategic regional platform. Our foundation was developed when Chile was a catalyst for foreign investment into South America and continues being a regional model and platform. There are several key milestones and stages behind the development of our foundation that facilitated Chile’s boom in Foreign Direct Investment during the 90s. Partnering with clients first started with M&A activities, followed by tax structuring operations, selecting the right partners and strategically deploying and developing talent to create shared successes.
Espinosa y Asociados is considered the tax leading specialist on Chile’s global investment platforms, being at forefront of sophisticated development mechanisms and systems that continue to evolve throughout the region. In the beginning of the new millennium, our core Tax & Legal expertise was first enhanced with the creation of LATAXNET, a regional network of “best of breed” boutique legal and tax firms throughout Latin America Successes in partnering with our clients further resulted in Espinosa y Asociados expanding services to a broader scope of Strategic Tax and Legal Services.
These developments and economic growth throughout the region have strengthened Espinosa y Asociados’ experience with intra-regional, cross-border activities and other exclusive, proprietary intellectual capital. The culmination is an internationally recognized boutique firm and team with an unparalleled capability of partnering with clients to create impactful custom-tailored, sustainable, value-added tax& legal solutions for their needs in both Chile and throughout Latin America.
Values The dynamics of successfully doing international business in Latin America require strong values of continually striving for excellence, enabled by high performance, multi-disciplinary teams to develop effective, sustainable tax & legal solutions without sacrificing quality. Personalized attention with the highest degree of professionalism, ethics, independence and integrity are the pillars of our client service where trust and loyalty are fundamental in everything we do.
Our Team Our team’s experience spans from leading multinationals to start-ups across a wide range of industries including the Aqua & Agriculture, Consumer Package Goods, Energy, Engineering, Financial Services, Health Care, Logistics & Transportation, Manufacturing, Mining, Media, Entertainment & Communications, Real Estate, Retail and Technology sectors.
Senior Management
Managers & Specialists
Jorge Espinosa
Karina Ormaza
• Founder & Managing Partner, Espinosa & Asociados
• Legal Specialist, Ecuadorian Securities & Exchange
• Co-Founder, LATAXNET • Co-Founder & Partner, Espinosa, Porte y Canales • Ernst & Young • Latin America Representative Partner, Global Legal Board
Commission • Legal Defense Attorney, Ecuadorian Secretary of State, Ecuador • LLM, Pontificate Catholic University of Chile • Juris Doctor, Lai Rocafuerte University
• Country Managing Partner, Legal & Tax practice, Chile
Sergio Buscaglione
• Senior Manager, International Tax practice, New York
• Manager, Granese & Asociados Abogados
• Chief of Staff & Legal Advisor, Chilean Ministry of Labor
• Manager, Granese y Valdes Asociados
• International Tax Program, Harvard University
• Bachelors of Laws & Social Sciences, Universidad
• LLM, University of Chile • Bachelors of Laws & Social Sciences, University of Chile Alejandro Granese • Founding Partner, Granese & Asociados Abogados • Co-Founder, Granese y Valdes Asociados • Bachelors of Laws & Social Sciences, University of Chile Diego Riquelme • Labor Law Consultant, Association of Chilean Professors • Corporate Tax Program, Universidad Desarrollo • Bachelors of Laws & Social Sciences, University of Chile
Central Jose Francisco Sepulveda • Associate, Ruz y Cía. • Professor and Assistant Researcher, Law School, Universidad Central de Chile • PhD in Law© (International Tax Law), Law School, Leiden University, The Netherlands • Adv. LLM in International Tax Law, International Tax Center, Leiden University, The Netherlands • Masters in Tax Direction and Planning, Universidad de Talca, Chile • Bachelor of Laws, Universidad de Talca, Chile • News
Practice Areas Our practices fall under three key, synergistic areas: Legal & Tax • Tax Advisor & Law • Litigation & Arbitration • Corporate Law • Labor Law Legal Business & Financial Advisory • Mergers & Acquisitions • Business Strategy & Planning • Performance & Talent Management Shared Services Espinosa y Asociados partners have worked together for over 20 years in developing impactful client solutions. Beyond providing “point solutions” and ongoing advisory within particular practice areas, we pioneered developing innovative, tailor-made projects that combine different practice areas during the 90s as a strategic differentiator within a “Big Four” environment that created regional leadership.
Our Clients Our company has extensive experience serving clients, companies or individuals in the most diverse branches of economic activity and enterprise of our country and abroad. Thus we have a great experience serving businesses and individuals active in Chile or abroad in the following areas: • Agriculture and Agro Industrial • Advising for Personal and Family Wealth • Banking and Finance • Casinos and hotels and Tourism • Commercial and Entertainment • Public and Private Grants • Construction & Real Estate • Supply Companies and Offices • Multinational Enterprises of varying type and size • Public Companies • Energy and Power
• Exporter and Importer • Agro Forestry and Forest • Livestock • Family Groups and Holding Companies • IBrewing Industry • Software and Information Industry • Engineering and Construction • Laboratory and Chemical and Pharmaceutical Companies • Metallic and Non-Metallic Mining • Oil and Gas
+56 (2) 2365 1415 info@eycabogados.com www.eycagobagos.com Av. El Bosque Norte 0123, Oficina 402 Santiago, Chile