Our Partner
Juan José Paullada Eguirao joined the firm in 2017 and has been a Partner since 2022. He specializes in Tax.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Juan José Paullada has more than 14 years of experience advising multinationals from the energy, real estate, private equity, banking and financial sectors in tax controversy and tax advisory matters.He specializes in representing clients throughout controversy processes before tax and other governmental authorities, regulators and the Taxpayers’ Defense office, to reduce or eliminate contingencies derived from tax audits and other administrative inspections. He has particular experience in advising multinationals on cross-border transactions, confronting complex international tax issues in the application of double taxation treaties.Juan José was a member of Ernst & Young’s international Tax Advisory practice in New York (2014-2016) and Houston (2016-2017).
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RELEVANT TRANSACTIONS
- Participated in obtaining a favourable decision on behalf of one of the major international banks regarding different administrative fines imposed by the Banking and Securities Commission.
- Represents real estate multinationals against different tax assessments concerning deficiencies observed in connection to withholding taxes applicable to interest payments made to foreign residents.
- Represents one of the major international banks in different contentious procedures against assessments issued by tax authorities regarding the taxation of financial derivative transactions.
- Represents major oil and gas companies in contentious procedures to obtain relevant value added tax refunds. Our assistance in the process pioneered the issuance of specific regulations for this type of refunds in preoperative periods.
- Represents one of the most important renewable energy project companies in Mexico, subsidiary of one of the world’s largest private equity firms, in an amparo lawsuit against an assessment made by local tax authorities requiring payment of certain duties to operate the wind farm.
- Represents a major oil and gas services company in a contentious procedure related to a potential tax deficiency derived from the obligation to withhold income tax upon cross-border intercompany payments made as a consequence of certain oilfield services rendered in Mexico.
- Represents major oil and gas upstream companies in amparo litigations against a legal provision that requires contractors to pay an exploration and an extraction tax, in violation of different constitutional principles.
- Has led negotiations with tax authorities on regulations in connection to the tax treatment of cryptocurrency buy/sell operations settled though cryptocurrency exchanges, as well as over the counter transactions.
- Represented Pattern Energy, a Riverstone subsidiary, in structuring its Mexican renewable energy projects, advising on the application of different tax treaties and relevant international tax initiatives (BEPS, MLI, among others).
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- Ranked as "Highly Regarded" in World Tax, 2024 General Corporate Tax and Tax Controversy
- Ranked as "Next Generation Partner" in Legal 500, 2023 Tax
- Ranked as "Rising Star" in Legal 500, 2021 Tax
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EDUCATION
- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Master's in Business Law (LL.M), 2014 Chicago, United States
- Kellogg School of Management Certificate in Business Administration (CMBA), 2014 Chicago, United States
- Universiteit Leiden Master's in International Tax Law (LL.M), 2013 Leiden, Netherlands
- Instituto Mexicano de Contadores Públicos Tax Diploma, 2012 Mexico City, Mexico
- Universidad Iberoamericana Law Degree, 2010 Mexico City, Mexico
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LANGUAGES
- English
- Spanish
- Portuguese
