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Federico Vuille Lafourcade

Vuille Lafourcade

Rating:
  • Promoted
Biography
  • Year joined firm: 2007
  • Languages: Spanish (native) English (Professional)

Founder of Vuille Lafourcade, he has over 20 years of experience and extensive knowledge in tax optimization opportunities, tax audits, and financial statement audits.

He graduated as a Certified Public Accountant from the Universidad Católica del Uruguay in 2007 and holds a Postgraduate Degree in Tax Specialization and a Master’s in Tax Law and Technique from the Universidad de Montevideo (thesis pending).

Throughout the years, he has gained extensive experience in advising on project establishment in Uruguay, guiding clients alongside his team in accounting, tax, and notarial matters.
He possesses a deep understanding of the national banking environment, demonstrated by the strong alliances and relationships he has built with the country’s leading financial institutions (an invaluable asset when advising his clients)

Currently, he is a Director and Partner at Vuille Lafourcade, where he has earned recognition for his technical expertise, positioning the firm among the most prestigious in the country

Recent matter/case highlights
  • Advised Uruguayan company on the tax implications of acquiring a television channel. The work included due diligence, tax structuring, and compliance review, ensuring and efficient and risk-mitigated acquisition with a successful outcome.
  • Advised the local company of a Chile Group in the company structure to purchase stocks of a company in Chile.
  • Provided tax advisory to an Uruguayan company with activities in Latin America on the application of the Double Taxation Agreement between Uruguay and Argentina, ensuring the company could avoid double taxation. He conducted an analysis considering the company’s business purpose in Uruguay to asses whether  it should be treated as a tax- transparent entity under applicable regulations.
Key practice areas

Compliance management

  • Business model optimisation
  • Cross-border project management

Corporate tax matters

  • Corporate taxes
  • Financial services

Tax advisory

  • International tax advisory
Sector expertise
  • Accounting
  • Agriculture
  • Forestry
  • Oil and gas
  • Transport
Academic qualifications
  • Public Accountant
    Universidad Católica del Uruguay
    2007
  • Postgraduate Degree in Tax Specialization
    Universidad Católica del Uruguay
    2010
  • Master’s degree in Tax Law (Thesis pending)
    Universidad de Montevideo
    2020
Association/network memberships
  • Instituto Uruguayo de Estudios Tributarios – IUET – Member
  • International Fiscal Association – IFA - Member
Address:
25 de Mayo 491, Montevideo Departamento de Montevideo
11000, Montevideo
Tel:+59829152732 Email:Contact this practitioner

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