Benjamín Cubides Pinto

Practice Areas

Transaction Structuring and Support; Tax Controversies; Wealth Protection and Management

Career

Benjamín is an attorney-at-law from Universidad Javeriana (1997) with a specialisation in Tax Law

from Universidad del Rosario (2002) and a Master’s Degree (LLM) from Heidelberg University (2003).

His areas of practice during over 25 years of professional practice have been those of consultation services and tax planning for companies; structuring and support in the negotiation of domestic transactions as well as of transactions abroad; counselling in the controversies with the tax authorities both at governmental level and procedures before administrative courts; and counselling in

planning for wealth protection and management. Benjamin is a founding partner of the law firm CUVAL ABOGADOS, which for the last 10 years has been focused on providing tax advisory services to both companies and individuals,

Professional Memberships

Member of the Board of Directors of the Instituto Colombiano de Derecho Tributario (Colombian Institute

for Tax Law), ICDT, since July 2005 and chairman of said Institute for the period 2015-2016.

Member of the Tax Committee of the Colombian American Chamber of Commerce from 2006 to 2013 and chairman of said Committee during years 2007 to 2010.

Member of the Executive Committee of the International Fiscal Association, IFA, Colombian Chapter since 2008 and until 2015 and Chairman of this Chapter during the 2010 – 2011 period.

Publications

Author of several articles and of the book “Normas y convenios para evitar la doble imposición internacional en el impuesto

de renta y en el impuesto al patrimonio en Colombia” – “Regulations and Treaties for the Avoidance of International Double Taxation in the Income Tax and the Net Worth Tax in Colombia” published by the Centro de Estudios Tributarios de Antioquia (Centre for Tax Studies of Antioquia), CETA, Medellín, 2010.