Rolando Ramirez Gaston

Rolando is experienced in advising corporate and institutional clients on tax solutions for their business and financial transactions and on tax matters of major company mergers and takeover processes. He advises on Wealth Planning matters, tax procedures with the National Tax Administration, the Municipal Tax Administration and the Judiciary. He acts as consultant on tax matters related to capital markets transactions, and to the mining, oil and gas, retail and construction industries.

• Provided legal and tax advice to Anadarko Petroleum Corporation on a regular basis in connection with its recent entrance into the Peruvian upstream activity.

• Advised Inversiones Nacionales de Turismo (Intursa), part of the Breca Group, regarding the acquisition of 99.97% of the outstanding shares of Inversiones La Rioja S.A., owner of assets of the Marriott International Inc. Tax advice included the tax planning of the most tax-efficient alternative structures for the client to make the acquisition also considering the potential impact thereof for the sellers.

• Advised Milpo on the Peruvian legal and tax implications and the UK tax considerations, associated with the implementation of a certain silver streaming financing structure, pursuant to which Milpo Peru would incorporate a subsidiary in the United Kingdom (Milpo UK) and the last one would enter into a silver streaming agreement to fund a loan to Milpo Peru.

• Advised on the tax framework for Pagos Digitales Peruanos’ mobile banking platform that allows for its use by all major Peruvian financial institutions and telecoms providers.

• Advised in a loan portfolio comprised of mortgage loans from a local bank to a foreign bank. This mandate involved the creation of an investment fund to minimize the possible tax consequences and mainly to avoid the loss and the initiation of various tax-based certification procedures before the Peruvian Tax Administration.

• Advised Peru’s leading university on the acquisition of 25.1 hectares of public land from the Public Goods State Agency (Superintendencia de Bienes Estatales) for the building of a Science and Technology Park.

• Procapitales - Member, Tax Committee
• Sociedad Nacional de Mineria, Petroleo y Energia - Member, Tax Committee
• American Chamber of Commerce - Member, Tax Committee
• Association for the Fostering of the National Infrastructure (AFIN) - Member, Tax Committee
• International Fiscal Association (IFA) – Member, Peruvian Group
• Peruvian Institute for Tax Law (IPDT) – Member
• Lima Bar Association - Member