Lewin & Wills Abogados

This content can only be accessed by Latin Lawyer subscribers

On it’s 33rd anniversary, Lewin & Wills continues to be an international reach boutique dedicated to tax law, international investments law, international trade and customs laws, foreign exchange law, corporate and business laws, M&A, private clients, controversies and arbitration.

With a vast trajectory in domestic and international transactions and ventures, including numerous local and cross-border M&A deals, its clients include important national and multinational, public and private corporations in different sectors including, among others, power generation, oil and gas, energy, mining, banking and finance, and telecommunications. This is in addition to a well established reputation in wealth and estate planning for high net worth individuals and family owned enterprises.

Consistent with its long-time working relation with clients in the mining and oil industries, in 2011 Lewin & Wills launched its mining and oil law practice, integrating in-depth boutique mining and oil law advice to its core strengths offered to these industries in tax, international investments and trade.

For the fourth year in a row, Lewin & Wills has been ranked by Chambers & Partners as one of the top two tax practices in “Band 1” in Colombia. According to the 2012 Chambers Latin America Client’s Guide: “Lewin & Wills is renowned for its strong tax department, which receives excellent support from the firm’s corporate practice. Its lawyers are ‘responsive and accessible,’ and clients are guaranteed access to partners. Work highlights include counselling Carbones del Cerrejón on its tax concerns, and giving tax, corporate and investment advice to Grupo Disan in relation to its international restructuring. Alfredo Lewin is a well-established, much-respected name in the tax market. Adrian Rodriguez rejoined the firm in July 2009. He is described by clients as ‘a creative, forward-thinking, active member of the team,’ who gives ‘sound advice and strategic direction’.” Also International Tax Review’s World Tax 2012 guide continues to rank Lewin & Wills as one of the leading tax law practices in “Tier 1” in Colombia. According to the 2011 Chambers Global Client’s Guide: “Foreign investment and exchange specialist Emilio Wills adds another string to this successful department’s bow. He has extensive experience of advising both local and international companies on foreign direct investment regulations. He holds degrees in international and European studies and foreign trade from Paris I University. He speaks French and represents a number of French entities with business operations in Colombia, such as Sagem France.”

In addition to its multi-industry reach and a wide base of Colombian and Latin American clients from the private, public, governmental and multi-laterals sectors, Lewin & Wills has a wide base of international clients such as: Talisman, Pacific Rubiales, BP, Shell, Chevron Petroleum Company, Exxon Mobil, Schlumberger, Amoco, Ecopetrol, Petrobras, Occidental Petroleum, Coalcorp, Xstrata, Glencore, Anglo Coal, BHP Billiton, Trafigura Beheer, Energold drilling, Umicore, Alstom, Sagem, ISA, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Telmex, Siemens, Sony, Starkey Laboratories, DirecTV, British American Tobacco, SAB Miller, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Bimbo, Sucromiles, Natura, ABS, Cemex, Beiersdorf, Bristol Myers Squibb, Dow Chemical, BASF, Merck, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered, HSBC, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, BBVA, AON, among many others.

Lewin & Wills is a founding member and the Colombian member firm of Lataxnet – Latin American Tax & Legal Network. Created in 2003, Lataxnet currently covers 17 countries in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. Lataxnet is a network of law firms with a strong practice and well-reputed leading individuals in the tax field in their jurisdiction. Through a peer-to-peer relation, Lataxnet has built a strong network of law firms in the Latin America region offering a variety of multi-jurisdictional tax and legal services, allowing its member law firms to render a one-stop regional reach service in each and all of the 17 jurisdictions covered.

The professionals currently associated with Lewin & Wills are:

Partners

Alfredo Lewin

Emilio Wills

Laureano Gómez (CPA)

Adrian F Rodriguez

Practice group partners

Diana Vaughan

Luz C Alfonso

Associates

Mariana Sanchez

Cristina Roman

Diego Vega

Andres Gonzalez

Johana Betancourt

Carolina Trejos

Juan P Wills

Santiago Wills

Cristina Carrillo (CPA)

Lina Puerto

Juan A Palacios

Juan D Saldarriaga

Of counsel

Andres Forero

M Pilar Abella

Evans M Bermudez

Alberto Bonilla

Monica Acebedo

Natalia Serna

www.lewinywills.com