Firms from more than 20 countries in North, South and Central America will compete for the awards, which will be presented during a dinner at Essex Hotel in New York on Thursday, September 19 2019.
For the deal and cases awards, we strive to mention all the firms that took part in each deal. If your firm has been omitted, please contact Anjana Haines on anjana.haines@euromoneyplc.com.
If you would like to attend the ceremony, please contact Alexandra Strick on Alexandra.strick@euromoneyny.com or +1 212 224 3543 (for Latin American attendees) or Maggie Varela-Christie on Margaret.varela-christie@euromoneyplc.com or +44 207 779 8385 (for Canadian and US attendees).
National Awards
Argentina Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Deloitte
Estudio O’Farrell
Grupo GNP
Marval O’ Farrell & Mairal
Pérez Alati Grondona Benites & Arntsen
Rosso Alba Francia & Asociados
Argentina Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
Deloitte
Grupo GNP
Rosso Alba Francia & Asociados
Bolivia Tax Firm of the Year
Criales & Urcullo
Ferrere
Tufiño y Villegas
Bolivia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Benítez Rivas Pérez & Asociados
Tufiño y Villegas
Brazil Tax Firm of the Year
Bichara Advogados
Deloitte
Lefosse Advogados
Machado Associados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Junior e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Trench Rossi Watanabe
Brazil Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
BaseFirma
Deloitte
Machado Associados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Junior e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Trench Rossi Watanabe
Canada Tax Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Deloitte
Goodmans
McCarthy Tetrault
McMillan
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Torys
Canada Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Baker Tilly
Deloitte
EY
KPMG
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
PwC
Central America Tax Firm of the Year
(Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama)
Arias
BLP Legal
Consortium Legal
EY
Central America Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
(Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama)
Consortium Legal
Deloitte
TPC Group
Chile Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Baraona Fischer & Cia
Carey
KPMG
PwC
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Chile Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
BaseFirma
Deloitte
EY
KPMG
PwC
Colombia Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Brigard Urrutia
Deloitte
EY
Godoy & Hoyos
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Posse Herrera Ruiz
PwC
Colombia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
Deloitte
EY
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
PwC
Ecuador Tax Firm of the Year
Ferrere
PBP Law
Mexico Tax Firm of the Year
Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa y Cia
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez
Deloitte
EY
Garrigues
PwC
Ritch Mueller Heather y Nicolau
White & Case
Mexico Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
Basham Ringe y Correa
Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa y Cia
Deloitte
Élan Zaak
PwC
QCG Transfer Pricing Practice
Peru Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Estudio Echecopar
EY
Hernández & Cía Abogados
Muñiz Ramirez Perez-Taiman & Olaya Abogados
Payet Rey Cauvi Pérez Abogados
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero Du & Uría
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano
Peru Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
BaseFirma
Deloitte
Estudio Echecopar (Baker McKenzie)
Estudio Olaechea
Uruguay Tax Firm of the Year
Bergstein Abogados
Ferrere
Grant Thorton
Guyer & Regules
KPMG
Uruguay Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Ferrere
Grant Thornton
Guyer & Regules
US: Houston/Dallas Tax Firm of the Year
Baker Botts
Latham & Watkins
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
Thompson & Knight
Vinson & Elkins
Weil Gotshal & Manges
US: Illinois Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
US: Los Angeles Tax Firm of the Year
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
US: New York Tax Firm of the Year
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Cravath Swaine & Moore
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton
Kirkland & Ellis
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
US: San Francisco and the Bay Area Tax Firm of the Year
Aptis Global
Cooley
Fenwick & West
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Morgan Lewis
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
US: Washington DC Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
US Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Fenwick & West
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
US Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
BaseFirma
Deloitte
DLA Piper
Fenwick & West
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Norton Rose Fulbright
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Venezuela Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
D’Empaire
Deloitte
Venezuela Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
BaseFirma
Deloitte
Tax Court Firms of the Year
Brazil Tax Court Firm of the Year
Bichara Advogados
Lacaz Martins Pereira Neto Gurevich & Schoueri
Lefosse Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Trench Rossi Watanabe
Canada Tax Court Firm of the Year
Bennett Jones
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Stikeman Elliott
US Tax Court Firm of the Year
Fenwick & West
McDermott Will & Emery
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Mayer Brown
Regional and Individual Awards
Americas Best Newcomer
Araújo Ibarra
+Value
Americas Tax Pro Bono Firm of the Year
Bichara Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
VCG Partners
Americas Tax Innovation Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY
Grupo GNP
HCVT
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Americas Tax Technology Firm of the Year
Bloomberg
Deloitte
EY
HCVT
Americas Tax Compliance & Reporting Firm of the Year
Brigard Urrutia
Deloitte
GIINTAX
Grupo GNP
Americas Tax Policy Firm of the Year
Brigard Urrutia
Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enríquez
Deloitte
GIINTAX
Grupo GNP
Mannrich e Vasconcelos Advogados
MJ Alves e Burle
In-house Awards
Americas In-house Tax Team of the Year
IBM (Brazil Team)
Johnson & Johnson
Uber
VTR Chile
Walmart
Leaders Awards
Americas Tax Disputes Practice Leader of the Year
Tércio Chiavassa, Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Gabriel Ortiz Gómez, Ortiz Abogados
Catalina Jaramillo Hernández, Brigard Urrutia
Marcos Vinicius Neder de Lima, Trench Rossi Watanabe
Al Meghji, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Roberto Quiroga Mosquera, Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey J. e Quiroga Advogados
Sandro Machado dos Reis, Bichara Advogados
Paulo Rogério Garcia Ribeiro, Machado Associados
Americas Indirect Tax Practice Leader of the Year
Luiz Gustavo Bichara, Bichara Advogados
Alan Kenigsberg, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Andrés Hernández De León, Brigard Urrutia
Douglas Lopes, Deloitte Brazil
Carolina Palma, EY
Marcelo Marques Roncaglia, Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Ricardo Marletti Debatin da Silveira, Machado Associados
Americas Transfer Pricing Leader of the Year
Carlos Ayub, Deloitte
Oscar Campero, Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa
Komal Dhall, KPMG
Sandra Díaz, BaseFirma
Muris Dujsic, Deloitte
Nicolás Juan, Grant Thornton Uruguay
Thomas Kittle-Kamp, Mayer Brown
Clarissa Machado, Trench Rossi Watanabe
Thomas Tsiopoulos, EY
Americas Tax Practice Leader of the Year
Juan Manuel Albacete, Guyer & Regules
Luiz Roberto Peroba Barbosa, Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Monica Biringer, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Christopher Bowers, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Kim Marie Boylan, White & Case
James Fuller, Fenwick & West
Júlio de Oliveira, Machado Associados
Héctor Reyes-Freaner, Baker McKenzie
Carrie Smit, Goodmans
Miguel Tesón, Estudio O’Farrell
Impact Deals and Impact Cases
Cases
Banco Alvorada SA vs. National Treasury Attorney´s Office (PGFN): Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Cameco Corp v The Queen: Fenwick & West, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Illinois Tool Works Inc. & Subsidiaries v Commissioner of Internal Revenue: McDermott Will & Emery
Medtronic Inc v. Commissioner (8th Circuit decision)
South Dakota v Wayfair Inc
Telefônica’s PIS/COFINS case: Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Deals
Aurora Cannabis Inc. acquisition of MedReleaf Corp: McMillan, Stikeman Elliott, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, Dorsey & Whitney
Barrick Gold Corporation's share-for-share merger with Randgold Resources: Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Blackstone-Led Consortium’s partnership agreement with Thomson Reuters: Blackstone: Osler, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Gilbert + Tobin, GIC Private Limited, Dechert, CPPIB, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Norton Rose Fulbright, Torys, Wachtell,Lipton Rosen & Katz
Boeing’s acquisition of Embraer: Baker McKenzie, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Pinheiro Neto Advogados, Trench Rossi Watanabe, BMA, Slate Meagher & Flom
Chaglla Holdings Limited consortium’s acquisition of Empresa de Generacion Huallaga Sa (Peru): Sullivan & Cromwell, Muniz Olaya Melendez Castro Ono & Herrera Abogados, EY Peru, White & Case, Miranda & Amado Adbogados, Allen & Overy, Hernandez & Cia, Rodrio, Elias & Medrano Abogados
Danaher’s acquisition of the Biopharma Business from General Electric Life Sciences: Kirkland & Ellis, Paul Weiss
Discovery Communications acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive: Weil Gotshal & Manges, Debevoise & Plimpton
Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox: Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Oi’s debt restructuring: Pinheiro Neto Advogados, BMA, Rosman Penalva Souza Leao Franco Avogados, Basilio Advogados, White & Case
Suzano’s acquisition of Fibria Celulose: Cescon Barrieu, Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados, TozziniFreire Advogados, Clifford Chance, Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice, Tozzini Freire, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart: Baker McKenzie; Allen & Gledhill; Dentons Rodyk & Davidson; Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; Gunderson Dettmer; Hogan Lovells; Khaitan & Co; Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co
Regional Awards (continued)
Latin America Tax Disputes Firm of the Year
BLP Legal
Deloitte
D’Empaire
Ferrere
Grant Thornton
Lefosse Advogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz e Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano
North America Tax Disputes Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
Fenwick & West
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Americas Indirect Tax Firm of the Year
Bichara Advogados
Brigard Urrutia
Consortium Legal
Deloitte
EY
Machado Associados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Junior e Quiroga Advogados
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Latin America Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
Grant Thornton
KPMG
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
PwC
Rosso Alba Francia & Asociados
Trench Rossi Watanabe
North America Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Deloitte
DLA Piper
Fenwick & West
Grant Thornton
Morgan Lewis
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Latin America Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa y Cia
Deloitte
KPMG
Lefosse Advogados
Machado Associados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga
PwC
North America Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Deloitte
EY
KPMG
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
PwC
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Americas Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
Deloitte
Grant Thornton
KPMG
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
PwC
Americas Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Deloitte
EY
KPMG
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr e Quiroga
PwC
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
