Juan Pablo Porto

Practice Areas

• Transfer Pricing and Tax Governance

• Private Client & Wealth Management

• Indirect Taxation

• Tax Litigation

• Financial Taxation

• Corporate Taxation

Career

Juan Pablo Porto specializes in tax law, advising national and international companies on crossborder transactions, particularly focusing on tax structuring and optimization. He also advises individuals on the structuring and taxation of their investments.

He advises on all kinds of transactions, including M&A, financing and asset purchases. He has extensive experience in representing clients in tax litigation proceedings and in inspection proceedings by the tax authorities.

Professional Memberships

He is a member of the Lima Bar Association, of the Peruvian Institute of Tax Law and of the Peruvian Research and Development Institute. He is vice president of the International Fiscal Association’s Peruvian group. He lectures in the Master of Taxation and Fiscal Policy at Universidad de Lima and at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

Personal

He has also lectured at Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, and at Universidad ESAN.

Publications

He has written many articles for specialized journals and regularly speaks at national and international forums on tax matters.

Work Highlights

Advice on designing and implementing a new procedural strategy to request the statute of limitations for the tax authorities’ powers of determination, sanction, and collection.

Audit procedures for fiscal years initiated by the tax authorities.

Languages Spoken

Spanish, English.

Clients

Cetco, China Harbour Engineering Company, Grupo Cintac (Corporación Sehover, Tupemesa, Promet), Grupo Odebrecht, Grupo Oceano, Salog and Stracon.

Education