VÍCTOR VALDEZ

Víctor Valdez is partner of our Tax and Private client departments. His practice focuses on tax advice to national and foreign companies, especially in financing operations, leasings, operations with derivative financial instruments, financial operations with securities – margin account transactions and securities lending -, structuring of trust funds, investment funds and mutual funds investing in securities.

He is a Juris Doctor by University of Lima, obtaining the first position of the 2011-1 promotion, having obtained the professional degree unanimously and “Summa Cum Laude”.

He has post-graduate studies in International Taxation at ESAN University (2012) and in Financial Law at Universidad del Pacífico (2013). He has completed specialization studies at the New York Institute of Finance, in Capital Markets (February 2016) and in Derivative Financial Instruments (August 2016).

In the academic field, Victor has served as Assistant Professor of the Financial Taxation Course, at the Post Graduate School of the University of Lima. He has been an exhibitor in different academic forums, and is the author of several research projects in tax matters. In 2017, his research was recognized by the IPDT, resulting in the winner of the I President IPDT Award, with the article entitled “Some problems regarding the treatment of foreign exchange gains and losses associated with financing and its relationship with coverage in foreign exchange through derivative financial instruments in Income Tax ”.

He has more than 12 years of experience in tax advice to banking, financial, insurance and reinsurance companies, brokerage firms (SAB), fund management companies (SAF), pension fund management companies (AFP), mechanisms Centralized trading, securities clearing and settlement institutions (ICLV), among other entities participating in the financial and capital markets.

Victor also specializes in designing and developing efficient structures from the fiscal perspective for individuals with high assets, preserving the protection of personal and family assets, developing estate planning and taking care of the due compliance with the substantial and formal tax obligations that may be applicable.

He is an Active Associate of the Peruvian Institute of Tax Law of the Peruvian Institute of Tax Law (IPDT) and of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) – Grupo Peruano.