The ITR Americas Tax Awards recognise remarkable achievements and developments by international tax professionals from the North, Central and South American regions over a 12-month period.
Aside from the national awards in more than 15 jurisdictions, there are also awards in regional, individual and in-house categories for the best performers.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s winners of the Americas Tax Awards will be announced and published online on September 24 at 3pm BST, accompanied by a webinar on the most notable winners and key trends.
If you have any questions about the shortlist or research, please contact our team at editorial@internationaltaxreview.com. For the deals and cases awards, we strive to mention all the firms that took part in each deal. If your firm has been omitted, please contact ITR's editorial team.
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Our thoughts are with our readers and others affected by the pandemic.
The winners were announced through a virtual ceremony held in September 2020. For a full list of winners of the Americas Tax Awards 2020, read here.
National Awards
Argentina Tax Firm of the Year
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
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Estudio O’Farrell
Laiún Fernández Sabella & Smudt
Pérez Alati Grondona Benites & Arntsen
Rosso Alba Francia & Asociados
Bolivia Tax Firm of the Year
Bufete Aguirre Quintanilla Soria & Nishizawa
CR & F Rojas
Criales & Urcullo
Ferrere
Villegas Aldasoza
Bolivia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
CR & F Rojas
Criales & Urcullo
Ferrere
Brazil Tax Firm of the Year
Demarest Advogados
Lefosse Advogados
Machado Associados Advogados & Consultores
Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Trench Rossi & Watanabe - a member firm of Baker McKenzie International
Brazil Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
BaseFirma
Deloitte
Lacaz Martins Pereira Neto Gurevich & Schoueri Advogados
Machado Associados Advogados & Consultores
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Trench Rossi & Watanabe - a member firm of Baker McKenzie International
Canada Tax Firm of the Year
Blake Cassels & Graydon
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Deloitte
Goodmans
McCarthy Tétrault
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Torys
Canada Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Barsalou Lawson Rheault
Bennett Jones
Deloitte
Gowling WLG
Grant Thornton
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Caribbean Tax Firm of the Year
Canahuate Rouchès
Deloitte
EY
Guzmán Ariza
KPMG
OMG
Pellerano & Herrera
Central America Tax Firm of the Year
Arias
Consortium Legal
Deloitte
EY
Lexincorp
Mayora & Mayora
Sfera Legal
Central America Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Arias
Consortium Legal
Deloitte
EY
Grant Thornton
Chile Tax Firm of the Year
Baraona Fischer & Cía
Carey
Deloitte
EY
KPMG
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Chile Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baraona Fischer & Cía
BaseFirma/Bruzzone & González Abogados
Deloitte
EY
KPMG
Mazars
Colombia Tax Firm of the Year
Brigard Urrutia
DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán
EY
Godoy & Hoyos Abogados
Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Colombia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
BaseFirma
Deloitte
Dentons Cardenas & Cardenas
EY
Godoy & Hoyos Abogados
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Posse Herrera Ruiz
Ecuador Tax Firm of the Year
EY
Fabara & Compañia
Ferrere
Perez Bustamante & Ponce
Vivanco & Vivanco
Ecuador Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
EY
Fabara & Compañia
Ferrere
Perez Bustamante & Ponce
Spingarn & Marks
Mexico Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Basham Ringe & Correa
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza & Enriquez
Deloitte
Ritch Mueller Heather & Nicolau
Sánchez Devanny
Mexico Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
Basham Ringe & Correa
Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa
Deloitte
QCG Transfer Pricing Practice
Salles Sainz Grant Thornton
Paraguay Tax Firm of the Year
BKM | Berkemeyer
Deloitte
Ferrere
Mersan Abogados
Peru Tax Firm of the Year
CMS Grau
Estudio Echecopa - a member firm of Baker McKenzie International
EY
Garrigues
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Zuzunaga Assereto & Zegarra Abogados
Peru Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
BaseFirma
CMS Grau
Deloitte
EY
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados/+Value
Zuzunaga Assereto & Zegarra Abogados
Uruguay Tax Firm of the Year
Brum Costa Abogados
Deloitte
Ferrere
Guyer & Regules
KPMG
Uruguay Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Bergstein Abogados
Deloitte
Ferrere
Grant Thornton
KPMG
US: Chicago Tax Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
US: Dallas & Houston Tax Firm of the Year
Baker Botts
Mayer Brown
Norton Rose Fulbright
Vinson & Elkins
Weil Gotshal & Manges
US: Los Angeles Tax Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
US: New York Tax Firm of the Year
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Debevoise & Plimpton
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
White & Case
US: San Francisco Tax Firm of the Year
DLA Piper
Fenwick & West
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
US: Washington DC Tax Firm of the Year
Crowell & Moring
Dentons
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Weil Gotshal & Manges
US Tax Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Vinson & Elkins
Weil Gotshal & Manges
US Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Duff & Phelps
Fenwick & West
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
White & Case
Venezuela Tax Firm of the Year
Altum Abogados
Baker McKenzie
D'Empaire Reyna Abogados
Deloitte
Planincorp Consultores
Venezuela Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
D'Empaire Reyna Abogados
Deloitte
NLC Asesoría
Individual Awards
North America Tax Practice Leader of the Year
Carrie Smit, Goodmans
Firoz Ahmed, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Francois Champoux, Deloitte
Joseph Pari, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Jessica Hough, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Raj Juneja, McCarthy Tétrault
Todd F Maynes, Kirkland & Ellis
Latin America Tax Practice Leader of the Year
Carolina Flores, Arias
Catalina Hoyos, Godoy & Hoyos
Gerardo Nieto, Basham Ringe & Correa
Jessica Power, Carey
Marcelo Natale, Deloitte
María Inés Brandt, Marval O'Farrell & Mairal
Roberto Quiroga Mosquera, Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga
North America Transfer Pricing Practice Leader of the Year
Brad Rolph, Grant Thornton
Brian Gleicher, White & Case
Jason Osborn, Mayer Brown
Jill Weise, Duff & Phelps
Natalie Hoyer Keller, Kirkland & Ellis
Sébastien Rheault, Barsalou Lawson Rheault
Tony Anderson, Deloitte
Latin America Transfer Pricing Practice Leader of the Year
Andres Parra, EY
Luciana Rosanova Galhardo, Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Marcial Garcia, EY
Nicolas Juan, Grant Thornton
Simon Somohano, Deloitte
Stephanie Makin, Machado Associados Advogados & Consultores
North America Tax Litigation and Disputes Practice Leader of the Year
Jacques Bernier, Baker McKenzie
Jeffrey Erney, Dentons
John Porter, Baker Botts
Kim Marie Boylan, White & Case
Monica Biringer, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Raj Madan, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Sanford Stark, Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Latin America Tax Litigation and Disputes Practice Leader of the Year
Álvaro Andrés Díaz, Gómez-Pinzón Abogados
Jorge S Narváez-Hasfura, Baker McKenzie
Karem Jureidini Dias, Rivitti & Dias
Liban Kusa, Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Lígia Regini da Silveira, Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão Advogados
Mauricio Martínez D´Meza Violante, Deloitte
North America Indirect Tax Practice Leader of the Year
Alan Kenigsberg, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
David B Blair, Crowell & Moring
Michael Bussmann, Gowling WLG
Nicolas Cloutier, McCarthy Tétrault
Renn G Neilson, Baker Botts
Richard Jones, Sullivan & Worcester
Zvi Halpern-Shavim, Blake Cassels & Graydon
Latin America Indirect Tax Practice Leader of the Year
Andrés González Becerra, DLA Piper Martinez Beltran
Camila Galvão, Machado Meyer Sendacz Opice Advogados
Carolina Velloso Verginelli, Deloitte
Marcelo Marques Roncaglia, Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Maria Fernanda Furtado, Trench Rossi & Watanabe - a member firm of Baker McKenzie International
Pablo Ordoñez, PPO Abogados
Ricardo Marletti Debatin da Silveira, Machado Associados Advogados & Consultores
In-house awards
Tax Team of the Year
C&A
Diageo
Falabella Group
IBM Brazil
iFood
Orbis
Petrobras
Uber
Transfer Pricing Team of the Year
Bavaria
Elecnor
Falabella Group
Grupo Sura
Louis Dreyfus
Shell
Indirect Tax Team of the Year
Diageo
IBM (Brazil)
Shell
The HEINEKEN Company
Uber
Tax Technology Team of the Year
Airbnb
iFood
Netflix
Rappi
Televisa
Uber
Tax Director of the Year
Angelica Parga, Diageo
Carlos Ramirez, Orbis
Cristian Alfredo Gonzalez Rubilar, Falabella Group
Francois Chadwick, Uber
Luiz Guilherme De Medeiros Ferreira, IBM Brazil
Pablo Gentini, Johnson & Johnson
Rodolfo Araujo, iFood
Transfer Pricing Director of the Year
Fernanda Amaral, Louis Dreyfus
Luiz Guilherme De Medeiros Ferreira, IBM Brazil
Mario Trindade, Shell
Pablo Gentini, Johnson & Johnson
Indirect Tax Director of the Year
Brian Kuntz, Uber
Juan Pablo Wills, Uber (formerly)
Maíra Oltra, The HEINEKEN Company
Vasco Gruber Franco, Telefonica Brasil
Deals and Cases
Impact deals
Akamai acquisition of Exceda: Jones Day, Machado Associados Advogados & Consultores, Marval O'Farrell & Mairal, Morales & Besa, Sánchez Devanny, TozziniFreire Advogados, WilmerHale
Asterion acquisition of a portfolio of 11 data centers from Telefónica: Carey, Clifford Chance, Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza & Enriquez
EY, Graça Couto Advogados, Holland & Knight, Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice Advogados, Mitrani Caballero & Ruiz Moreno, Rodrigo Elias & Medrano, Uría Menéndez, Uría Menéndez - Proença de Carvalho
Banco Santander acquisition of Santander Mexico: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza & Enriquez, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Uría Menéndez
Bristol-Myers Squibb acquisition of Celgene: Baker McKenzie, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Jones Day, Kirkland & Ellis, Mayer Brown, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Brookfield Business Partners acquisition of Johnson Controls power solutions business: Baker McKenzie, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Latham & Watkins, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Engie-led consortium acquisition of TAG: Barbosa Müssnich & Aragão Advogados, Jones Day, Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice Advogados, Schmidt Valois Miranda Ferreira & Agel, Stocche Forbes Advogados, Tauil & Chequer Advogados - a member firm of Mayer Brown
Natura & Co acquisition of Avon: Baker McKenzie, Cravath Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Junqueira Ie Advogados, Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga, Pinheiro Neto Advogados, Sullivan & Cromwell, Trench Rossi & Watanabe, Tudisco & Rodrigues Advogados
Newmont acquisition of Goldcorp: Cassels Brock & Blackwell, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Goodmans, Neal Gerber & Eisenberg, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, White & Case
Raytheon acquisition of United Technologies: Shearman & Sterling, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz
Uber IPO: Cooley, Covington & Burling, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Impact cases
Altera Corp v Commissioner: Baker & McKenzie, Fenwick & West, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gupta Wessler, Latham & Watkins, Mayer Brown, McDermott Will & Emery, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Munger Tolles & Olson, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Steptoe & Johnson, Wilson Law Group
Amazon.com v. Commissioner: Baker & McKenzie, Caplin & Drysdale, Sidley Austin, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Steptoe & Johnson
Cameco Corporation v The Queen: Fenwick & West, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Eaton Corporation v Commissioner: Davis Polk & Wardwell, Mayer Brown, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Intercement Participações dispute: Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga
Wobben Windpower dispute: Machado Associados Advogados & Consultores
Regional Awards
Americas Diversity & Inclusion Firm of the Year
Baker Botts
Deloitte (US office)
Grupo GNP
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Mazars (US office)
Americas Pro Bono Firm of the Year
Brigard Urrutia
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza & Enriquez
Ferrere
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Best Newcomer Firm of the Year in the Americas
Diego Galbinski Advocacia
Epsilon Economics
SanintRivas
International Tax Law Firm of the Year in the Americas
Clifford Chance
CMS
DLA Piper
Garrigues
Uría Menéndez
Americas Tax Innovator of the Year
BaseFirma
Deloitte
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Rodrigo Elías & Medrano Abogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Stikeman Elliott
Americas Tax Technology Firm of the Year
ASBZ Advogados
Deloitte
Global TaxUpdate
Grupo GNP
KPMG
Mannrich e Vasconcelos Advogados
McMillan
Americas Tax Compliance and Reporting Firm of the Year
Brigard Urrutia
Coimbra & Chaves Sociedade de Advogados
Deloitte
Fenwick & West
GIINTAX
Kostelanetz & Fink
Mayer Brown
Americas Tax Policy Firm of the Year
Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza & Enriquez
Deloitte
Mayora & Mayora Abogados
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
MJ Alves & Burle Advogados & Consultores
Rosso Alba Francia & Asociados Abogados
Villegas Aldazosa
Americas Tax Court Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Brigard Urrutia
Deloitte
Mayer Brown
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Americas Indirect Tax Firm of the Year
Bichara Advogados
Brazuna Ruschmann & Soriano Sociedade de Advogados (BRATAX)
Deloitte
EY
Machado Associados Advogados & Consultores
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
North America Litigation and Disputes Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Bennett Jones
Mayer Brown
McDermott Will & Emery
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Latin America Litigation and Disputes Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Baraona Fischer & Cía
Basham Ringe & Correa
Bruchou Fernández Madero & Lombardi
Rosso Alba Francia & Asociados Abogados
Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice Advogados
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
North America Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Duff & Phelps
Fenwick & West
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Latin America Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
Deloitte
EY
Ferrere
Grant Thornton
KPMG
North America Tax Firm of the Year
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
Kirkland & Ellis
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Torys
Latin America Tax Firm of the Year
Arias
Baker McKenzie
Consortium Legal
Deloitte
EY
Ferrere
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría
Americas Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BaseFirma
Deloitte
EY
Grant Thornton
Mayer Brown
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Americas Tax Firm of the Year
Kirkland & Ellis
Machado Meyer Sendacz & Opice Advogados
Mattos Filho Veiga Filho Marrey Jr & Quiroga Advogados
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
