Bio

Alejandro Messineo has been the partner in charge of the firm’s Tax department since 1997. He has worked in all areas of national and international tax law, providing general advice and tax planning. He has a wide experience on the problems of international taxation as well as safeguarding taxpayers in tax disputes with the tax authorities at different levels of government. He has handled the tax planning of different businesses and transactions, such as international financing operations and corporate acquisition and reorganization schemes. He has also represented clients in tax assessment claims by the national, provincial and municipal tax authorities, including the National Tax Court, Appeals Chambers and the Argentine Supreme Court. As a specialist in national and international taxation law, he has been recognized on numerous occasions by publications such as Chambers Latin America, Best Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal. He is a professor of the Master in Tax Law of the Faculty of Law of the Austral University and Director of the Intensive Course in International Tax Law of the Austral University. He is a member of the Argentine Association of Fiscal Studies (former member of its board of directors) and of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). He is a member of the Board of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires. He has also been National Rapporteur for Argentina before the IFA (EILAT 1999), where he was also a panelist (Boston 2012). He regularly lectures on different topics of tax law and is the author of several publications.