Juan Korody Tagliaferro

Practice Areas

Tax

Tax regulatory law

Corporate Finance

M&A

Career

Juan specializes in tax and regulatory law, corporate finance and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), and focuses on structuring foreign investments, procurement, financing, as well as designing legal strategies for the varied of financial, commercial, and legislative challenges that his clients constantly face. He represents and advices Fortune 500 and leading companies in the Oil-and-Gas, Consumer Products, Telecommunications, Financial, and E-Commerce Sectors. Juan regularly represents his clients before Superior Tax Courts, Administrative Courts, and before the Supreme Court of Justice (Constitutional Chamber, Political-Administrative Chamber) in large claim litigations and in international and domestic arbitrations.

Juan is an included in the list of arbitrators of the Arbitration Center of the Caracas Chamber of Commerce (CACC, a Member of the International Chambers of Commerce ICC) and of the Corporate Center of Settlement and Arbitration (Centro Empresarial de Conciliación y Arbitraje, CEDCA). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Venezuelan Association of Tax Law (AVDT),the International Fiscal Association (IFA), the Committee of Legal Matters and Finance of the British-Venezuelan Chamber (Britcham), the Tax Committee of the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Venamcham), and the Arbitration Committee of the Caracas Chamber of Commerce. He has represented Venezuela in international conferences organized by the IFA, the International Bar Association (IBA), and the Latin American Institute of Tax Law (ILADT)

In the business sector, Juan serves as director of an important company in the international financial sector, and is currently the formal legal representative (under corporate Bylaws) of the Venezuelan subsidiary of an important multinational oil company; he is also the deputy legal representative for a subsidiary in Venezuela of an important consumer products company.

In the academic world, Juan has been professor in the Universidad Monte Ávila (UMA), since 2015, and currently teaches Economic Analysis of Law at. He is the author of several published works in mercantile and financial law and lectured on corporate finance, tax law, oil & gas, and constitutional law in national and international academics events.

He has been recognized as a leading attorney-at-law in Tax Law by Chambers Latin America, since 2014, and as a leading attorney-at-law in Tax Law and Public Law by Legal 500 Latin America, since 2013.

Professional Memberships

- Caracas Bar Association, Member

- Venezuelan Association of Tax Law (AVDT), Member. Currently, he is also a member of the Board of Directors as Secretary

- International Fiscal Association (IFA)

- Member of the Tax Committee of the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VENAMCHAM).

- Member of the Legal Committee of the British-Venezuelan Chamber (Britcham)

- Member of the Britcham Finance Committee

- Member of the Committee for Arbitration of the Caracas Chamber of Commerce