Mario Silva

Practice Areas

Tax and International Trade.

Career

Mario Silva is partner and co-head of the Tax Department at PPU. He focuses his practice in corporate and personal taxation, tax planning, and corporate restructuring to all kind of clients, particularly corporations, family offices, and private wealth. With more than 30 years of experience and vast knowledge, Mario Silva has become one of the most important actors in tax practice, academics and tax professional guilds in Chile, jointly with serving as a respected close collaborator with tax public policies and legislation. He has also been appointed as a legal expert in several occasions.

Professional Memberships

Chilean Bar Association.

President of Instituto Chileno de Derecho Tributario, Chile 2017 - to date.

Cahiers’ Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

Advisory Board Member Director of IBS.

Vice – president of Instituto Chileno de Derecho Tributario, Chile 2013.

Director of Instituto Chileno de Derecho Tributario, Chile 2011.

Director of the International Fiscal Association IFA, Chile 2012.

Personal

Lawyer graduated from Universidad de Chile (1987) and MBA Executive of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1995). Additionally, he is a permanent speaker in conferences organized by the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and President of the Chilean Institute of Tax Law. Currently, he is a professor of Tax Law and Master in Tax Law of Universidad de Chile.