Reginaldo Montaño Rodríguez

Practice Areas

Our expertise focuses on tax controversy, which includes assisting and defending taxpayers during tax audit processes, seeking mutual agreements with tax authorities through established legal procedures, and implementing litigation strategies to challenge any tax authority’s actions that may affect a company’s interests, such as tax deficiency notices or denials of favorable tax balances.

We also advise companies on structuring their operations to maximize tax benefits, provide tax advisory services considering the tax authorities' criteria to help taxpayers prevent contingencies, and offer second opinions on specific transactions.

Finally, we provide corporate legal services, including the preparation of shareholders' minutes, drafting and reviewing agreements, and other related services.

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Nuestra especialización se centra en la controversia fiscal, lo que incluye la asistencia y defensa de los contribuyentes durante los procesos de auditoría fiscal, la búsqueda de acuerdos con las autoridades fiscales a través de procedimientos legales establecidos y la implementación de estrategias de litigio para impugnar cualquier acto de la autoridad fiscal que pueda afectar los intereses de la empresa, como determinaciones de adeudos fiscales o negativas de devolución de saldos a favor.

También asesoramos a las empresas en la estructuración de sus operaciones para maximizar los beneficios fiscales, brindamos consultoría fiscal considerando los criterios de las autoridades fiscales para prevenir contingencias y ofrecemos una segunda opinión sobre transacciones específicas.

Finalmente, proporcionamos servicios legales corporativos, incluyendo la elaboración de actas de asamblea de accionistas, la redacción y revisión de contratos, entre otros.

Career

REGINALDO MONTAÑO RODRÍGUEZ. Graduated in 1993, EDUCATION: Law Faculty, Autonomous University of Baja California; postgraduate studies on Tax and Constitutional Law at prestigious universities at Mexico City.

With over 27 years of tax law practice, Reginaldo´s professional career has been focused on tax litigation and advisory.

He served on the public sector (1997-2001), as a director of the Tax Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance where he participated actively on preparing tax reforms bills, attending taxpayers ruling requests, among other activities.

On 2001 Reginaldo joined Deloitte as a tax-legal partner where he leaded a tax controversy team which attended several tax trials for multinationals and domestic corporations.

As of November 2013, Reginaldo formed an independent tax law firm envisioning specialized tax controversy services and tax advisory. A well prepare tax defense team becomes a big asset for taxpayers nowadays; among the 14 professionals that works on the firm, some of them worked for the Tax Court and the tax administration.

Through the years he has attended many tax cases at Court defending clients from tax authority´s acts; the key success for having obtained many favorable judgments are strong evidence, appropriate legal reasoning and a constant follow up at Court.

Reginaldo is ranked in Chambers and Partners and Best Lawyers; he participates actively on the academic sector in the International Fiscal Association (IFA), Mexican Bar Association (BMA). He also has participated as speaker on numerous forums.

Professional Memberships

Mexican Bar Association

International Fiscal Association

Personal

Born on December 5th, 1970.

Mexicali, Baja Carlifornia, Mexico

Married

Three kids

Industry Sector Expertise

Reginaldo used to work at the Mexican Ministry of Finance.

He was partner (Tax-Legal) at Deloitte (Mexico City office) for 13 years

Independent practitioner since 2014.

Clients

Grupo Vidanta

Grupo Pinsa

Reichmann International

Jafra

Novem

Grupo Pando

Hilton Grand Vacation

Mission de Mexico

Languages Spoken

Spanish

English

Work Highlights

Director of International Legal Procedures at the Ministry of Finance (Mexico), 1997-2001

Partner at Deloitte (Tax-Legal), from 2001 through 2014

Independen practitioner, 2014-

Education