Tax
Latin America Guide 2025 : Uruguay
Band 1
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Provided by Ferrere Abogados
The Tax practice group at FERRERE has unrivaled expertise in this challenging field, working on tax planning and structuring and tax litigation. Its client roster includes large multinational organizations, foreign and local companies. The group is renowned for advising clients with complex tax structures and high-profile tax litigation.
The Tax practice group participates in business structuring, corporate mergers and acquisitions, project financing, financial products, transfer pricing studies, and obtaining tax benefits for investment projects. The group focus is helping businesses with tax strategy, while ensuring tax compliance and providing support to achieve the best corporate tax practices.
The group also advises HNWIs with tax residence or interests in Uruguay on the structuring of their investments, and wealth and estate planning, with the aim of helping clients navigate their global tax lifecycle processes. The team assists clients in designing and implementing personal plans, focusing on key issues like wealth management, compliance and exit strategies.
Tax litigation is a strong suit for the practice. The group is known for formulating creative litigation strategies, achieving a high level of success.
FERRERE’s regional presence with offices in Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay and an active network of international contacts afford the firm an international vision of taxes that allows it to provide comprehensive advice, taking multi-jurisdictional impacts into account.
Chambers Review
Ferrere Abogados houses a powerhouse tax department regularly called upon to assist with tax structuring for high-value transactions. The team is renowned for its tax restructuring practice, as well as representing clients in administrative claims before the government ministries and litigation relating to free trade zones. Its noted bench of practitioners offers additional expertise advising clients on customs matters. The firm's client portfolio includes key local and international clients from the energy and natural resources, technology and telecommunication arenas.
Work Highlights
- Ferrere Abogados assisted GlobalLogic Inc. with the tax structuring and related aspects of the acquisition of Hexacta by the client, as well as on the implications of recent regulations applicable to Uruguayan holding companies that are part of a multinational group.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ferrere Abogados has highly trained professionals. The cost of the services is very reasonable, but the most important thing is that they have given me valuable results."
"Ferrere's team is available, capable and up to date in regulations and standards. It also shows good communication between teams."
"Ferrere Abogados has highly trained professionals. The cost of the services is very reasonable, but the most important thing is that they have given me valuable results."
"Ferrere's team is available, capable and up to date in regulations and standards. It also shows good communication between teams."
Notable Practitioners
Leading light and department head Gianni Gutiérrez Prieto boasts a stellar practice advising notable multinational corporations on their tax mandates, as well as assisting local and international individuals with personal wealth planning in Uruguay.
"Gianni Gutiérrez Prieto is an amazing professional, an out-of-the-box thinker, creative, a problem solver and extremely technical."
"Gianni Gutiérrez Prieto is a person whom legislators in Uruguay consult - that's how high his expertise in tax is. He is the among the top specialists in the country."
Active partner Isabel Laventure is well placed to assist clients with the tax aspects of corporate and financial transactions in Uruguay. She also boasts extensive experience advising on contentious tax claims, fiscal planning and related regulatory mandates.
"Isabel Laventureis very technical in her knowledge, she is to the point for what you need and very reliable. Isabel brings up anything that could affect us negatively, and she transmits tranquillity."