Corina Laudato

Languages Spoken

Spanish and English

Practice Areas

Corina Laudato leads the firm’s Tax Law practice. She is a tax planning expert and has extensive experience providing comprehensive tax advice with an emphasis on the tax structuring of sales and acquisitions, joint ventures, business reorganisations, private equity investments and their associated financings. She regularly advises clients on matters involving corporate and individual taxation and is active in designing and implementing international tax efficient investment and business platforms. She also provides tax advice on a variety of financial transactions and is highly experienced in tax litigation in Argentina.

Career

Prior to joining the firm, Corina Laudato was an associate at Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz (jr) (1999-2001/2005-2012) and was a New York-based associate with international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (2002-2005).

Professional Memberships

She is admitted to the New York Bar and to the Buenos Aires City Bar and is a member of the International Fiscal Association and the International Bar Association.

Personal

She graduated with honours from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1997 and obtained an LLM in International Taxation from New York University in 2002 where she was a Crowe & Dunlevy Graduate Tax Scholarship recipient.

Experience

Corina Laudato is an expert in local and international tax planning and has extensive experience in comprehensive tax advice with an emphasis on the tax structuring of acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, business reorganizations, private equity investments and their associated financings. She regularly advises clients on matters involving both corporate and individual taxation and has been active in designing and implementing several international tax efficient investment and business platforms (including complex joint ventures, trusts and investment funds) both in Argentina and abroad. She has also provided tax advice in connection with a variety of financial transactions, including debt exchanges, refinancings and restructurings. In addition, she has experience in tax litigation at the federal, provincial and municipal levels

Ms. Laudato authored several tax-related publications and was National Reporter at the 2009 and 2010 International Bar Association Annual Conferences (Tax Section). She also participated as a speaker in several IBA conferences. She has been appointed moderator and speaker in the 5th IFA -International Fiscal Association- Latin American Regional Conference (Mexico, May 2013). In addition, she was IFA National Reporter for the annual conference in London 2019.

She has been consistently recommended in several legal guides, including Latin America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business published by Chambers & Partners, the PLC Tax Transaction Handbook, Legal 500, Latin Lawyer, Best Lawyers and Leader’s League.

She is a member of the Argentine Association of Fiscal Studies, of the International Fiscal Association and of the International Bar Association.