RIMON - Key Persons
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- Associate
- Associate in Rimôn 's Bogota
- Associate Latin America, Tax, Trusts and Estates
Alejandra Becerra is an associate in Rimôn's Bogota office. With more than ten years of experience in tax related matters, Ms. Becerra focuses her practice on tax law. She has experience providing consulting and tax planning services for individuals and multinational business in a range of industries including oil and gas, retail, infrastructure, and banking and finance, among others. Ms. Becerra also provides advice on tax compliance and due diligence matters.
Prior to joining Rimôn, Ms. Becerra spent 8 years at Baker McKenzie as a tax associate. Prior to that, she was a tax supervisor for GM Financial Colombia and also has experience as an associate in a Bogota accounting firm.
Ms. Becerra graduated from Universidad Nacional de Colombia with a degree in Accounting, and also from Universidad de los Andes, with a Tax Specialist degree.
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- Associate
- Senior Associate
- Associate Latin America, Tax, Trusts and Estates
Ana Lopez Murillo is a senior associate located in Rimôn's Bogota office. Ms. Lopez Murillo focuses her practice on tax and trusts and estates law. She advises multijurisdictional corporations, financial institutions, high-net-worth individuals and family offices on domestic and international tax issues, tax planning, tax compliance, inheritance and estate planning, exchange of information, and amnesty programs. Ms. Lopez Murillo has a strong background in tax law, enabling her to guide her clients towards the most tax effective and compliant wealth management and estate planning strategies.
Prior to joining Rimôn, Ms. Lopez Murillo worked at Baker McKenzie, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte in their tax and legal teams. Ms. Lopez Murillo also spent 4 years as a corporate tax lawyer for a major Colombian power company, Enel Group.
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- Partner / Securities and Capital Markets / Sydney
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- Partner
- Board Member of the Nonprofit Collective Foundation
- Partner Corporate and Business Transactions, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Anthony is the former Co-Chair of the America Red Cross, Long Island Chapter. He was selected to be a member of the 2019 Class of the Energeia Partnership, a regional stewardship program conducted by Molloy College, and serves on this organization's Advisory Board of Directors.
Anthony is also a board member of the Nonprofit Collective Foundation. The NCF's mission is to help nonprofits throughout the United States by providing unrestricted operational funding in order to grow, operate effectively, and achieve their goals.
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- Associate
- Partner
- Senior Associate
Benjamin Aguilera is an accomplished transactional attorney who primarily focuses on corporate, mergers and acquisitions and international transactions in the United States. Mr. Aguilera also advises on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture capital, and real estate transactions in Mexico, Central and South America, Spain, Portugal. His client base includes investment advisors, large corporations, emerging companies, real estate developers, cross-border manufacturers, and hotels and resorts.
Mr. Aguilera is a cross-border specialist, representing clients in transactions and matters regulated by the USMCA and other treaties and conventions between the U.S., Mexico, and other countries. His expertise includes:
Mergers and acquisitions, including both stock and asset purchase transactions
General representation in corporate matters and business operations of US companies (from conception to exit)
General representation of US companies in corporate matters and business operations in Latin America (from conception to exit)
Formation of entities in Mexico and Latin America
Joint ventures and other strategic alliances
Alternative dispute resolution for cross-border transactions
Compliance with laws, rules, and regulations affecting cross-border investments and operations (e.g., Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 1961 Hague Convention, Panamerican Convention on Powers of Attorney, U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, North American Free Trade Agreement, etc.)
Cross-border financing of commercial and residential real estate projects in Mexico
Acquisition and development of commercial and residential real estate in Mexico
Commercial lease agreements for industrial space in Mexico
Set up of manufacturing operations and prosecution of special licenses and authorizations under special import-export programs in Mexico (e.g., IMMEX - Maquiladora Program)
Due Diligence for the acquisition of credit portfolios and other asset-backed portfolios in Mexico
Manufacturing agreements, services agreements, bailment agreements, and shelter agreements between U.S. corporations and Mexican contractors
International sale of goods agreements between U.S. and foreign corporations
Consulting agreements, employment agreements, and confidentiality agreements
Distribution and licensing agreements
Incorporation and formation of corporations, limited liability companies, and limited partnerships
Mr. Aguilera was born and raised in Mexico. He graduated from college and practiced public accounting in Mexico before he was admitted to practice law in the State of Arizona. Mr. Aguilera is also admitted to practice law in the State of New York, and is a licensed C.P.A. in Mexico. His achievements in the legal field have been widely recognized, including by the American Bar Association, Best Lawyers in America and SuperLawyers.
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- Partner
- Partner, Partner - Rimon Falkenfort / Regulatory, Compliance & Corporate
- Professor of Business Law
Bernd Geier is a partner focused on finance, regulatory law, and funds. His practice covers the entire spectrum of regulatory issues (compliance), with a focus on the financial sector, including FinTech. He advises clients on financial market regulation, transaction structuring and optimisation, outsourcing law, as well as on new technologies (cryptocurrencies) and sustainability requirements (ESG).
Bernd Geier is Professor of Business Law, Banking and Capital Markets Law as well as Regulation at SRH University Heidelberg and Lecturer in Banking Supervisory Law at the University of Speyer. He is a member of the advisory board of the journal "Recht der Finanzinstrumente", a member of the jury of the Science Award of the Federal Association of Alternative Investments (BAI), and a member of the BAI Expert Committee on Fund / Market Regulation.
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- Partner Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Business Transactions
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- Partner Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Restructuring, Corporate and Business Transactions
Carl M. Sherer holds a JD as well as an MBA from New York University, and is a graduate of Columbia University. He worked with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and with Schulte Roth & Zabel in New York, in addition to serving as Assistant to the General Counsel at the Israel Securities Authority.
Mr. Sherer has over twenty-five years experience in corporate and securities law, helping individuals and corporations in both transactional and regulatory settings in the United States and in Israel. Mr. Sherer was associated with Professor Joseph Gross, Hodak & Co. in Tel Aviv, was a partner at Silber, Schottenfels, Gerber & Sherer, and was of counsel to Zell Goldberg & Co.
Mr. Sherer's experience covers a wide array of domestic and international corporate and securities matters, including:
Mergers and acquisitions, including major international mergers
Initial public offerings, secondary offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities in the United States and in Israel
International joint ventures
Securities regulatory advice in the United States and in Israel, including under both countries' investment adviser regulations
Securities regulation in Israel
Technology licensing arrangements
Financial products
Establishment of investment funds
Commodities trading worldwide
Bank regulatory advice in the United States
PFIC
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- Business Attorney
- Partner / Emerging Companies and Venture Capital
- Partner Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, International Transactions
- Senior Global Transactional Attorney
Chris Terry is a business attorney and trusted legal advisor to clients ranging from multinationals, emerging growth companies and startups to venture and private equity funds, partnerships and entrepreneurs.
Chris has extensive experience counseling founders and technology companies on financings, cross-border acquisitions and strategic joint ventures in the US and worldwide, with a particular expertise in transactions that have an international or cross-border component. Chris has advised his clients on cross-border investments, market entry, outsourcing, cross-border technology transactions and acquisition transactions in China, Japan, Ecuador, Thailand, the Philippines, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia, Luxembourg, France and Italy, among others.
Chris's industry specific experience ranges from mobile Internet, medical devices, digital advertising and online gaming to clean-tech, semi-conductors, medical devices and education, among others. Chris advises his company clients on company formation, employee incentive programs, commercial transactions and technology licensing, as well as corporate governance, securities law compliance and other general corporate matters. Chris also counsels his clients on implementing corporate restructurings and reorganizations, dilutive issuances and overseeing corporate liquidations.
Prior to joining Rimon, Chris was a partner at the US law firm of Gunderson Dettmer, where he co-launched its first international office in China, and DLA Piper, one of the world's largest law firms.
Chris lives in Winchester, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons.
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- Associate
- Associate Latin America, Tax
- Attorney in Rimon 's Bogotá
Christian Escudero Caviedes is an attorney in Rimon's Bogotá office. Mr. Escudero focuses his practice on tax. He has extensive experience in tax consulting and advises clients on issues including national, territorial, direct, and indirect tax. He also advises on the application of the double taxation agreements (CDIs as per its acronym in Spanish) to help clients engaged in international business to avoid double taxation in relation to income tax, withholding rates, and dividends on payments made abroad.
Mr. Escudero graduated from the University of La Sabana with a focus on company and business law, in addition, he is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in taxation at the University of Los Andes, and has experience at Ernst & Young - EY in business tax consulting.
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- Associate Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Restructuring, Employment Law, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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- Partner
- Partner Employment Law, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
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- Partner Employment Law, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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- Private Investment Funds, Securities and Capital Markets, Fund Formation, Regulatory, Compliance & Corporate Governance, Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
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- Associate Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Restructuring, Real Estate
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- Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Restructuring, Banking and Financial Services, Leveraged Finance
- Partner Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Restructuring, Banking and Financial Services, Leveraged Financ
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- Special Counsel Intellectual Property Litigation
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- Partner Trusts and Estates, Tax
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- Partner Corporate and Business Transactions, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, Real Estat
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- Partner Corporate and Business Transactions, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, Technology, Life Sciences
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- Partner, Partner - Rimon Falkenfort Real Estat
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- Associate Fund Formation, Private Investment Funds, Mergers and Acquisitions, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, Securities and Capital Markets
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- Counsel Banking and Financial Services, Corporate and Business Transactions, Energy Transactions, Equipment Leasing and Financ
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- Partner Entertainment, Sports and Media, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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- FAI Partner Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, Technology
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- Partner Banking and Financial Services, Corporate and Business Transactions
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- Partner Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, White Collar and Government Investigations
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- Partner Equipment Leasing and Finance, Banking and Financial Services, Energy Transactions
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- Partner Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Restructuring
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- Sechagua Associate Latin America, Tax, Trusts and Estates
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- Partner Trusts and Estates, Tax
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- Corporate and Business Transactions, International Transactions, Regulatory, Compliance & Corporate Governance, Project Finance, Major Projects
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- Counsel Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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- Partner, Partner - Rimon Falkenfort Employment Law, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Regulatory, Compliance & Corporate Governance
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- Partner, Partner - Rimon Falkenfort Banking and Financial Services, Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Restructuring, Europe, Leveraged Finance, Real Estat
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- Partner Trusts and Estates, Tax
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- Partner Intellectual Property
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- Partner Real Estate, United Kingdom
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- Partner Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity, Technology
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- Leveraged Finance, Private Investment Funds, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, the Gulf States, Banking and Financial Services
- Partner Leveraged Finance, Private Investment Funds, Emerging Companies and Venture Capital, the Gulf States, Banking and Financial Services
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- Intellectual Property Attorney Dr. Dale Rieger As Partner in Its San Diego Office
Rimon Law continues growth trajectory with Four New Attorneys joining the firm
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- Partner
- Partner Trusts and Estates, Tax, Latin America, CFIUS / National Security
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- Partner Bankruptcy, Creditors' Rights and Restructuring, Corporate and Business Transactions, Real Estat
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- Partner Trusts and Estates
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- Partner Tax, International Tax, Mergers and Acquisitions
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- Partner Entertainment, Sports and Media, Intellectual Property, Trademark and Copyright
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- Partner, Partner - Rimon Falkenfort Tax, Real Estate Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions
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- Partner Intellectual Property, Patent Counseling and Prosecution, Technology
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- Partner White Collar and Government Investigations, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
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- Partner Corporate and Business Transactions, Tax, Europ
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- Partner Tax, International Transactions
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- Partner Fine Art and Cultural Property, Real Estate, Private Investment Funds, FinTech, Cryptocurrencies, and Blockchain
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- Partner Employment Law, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, ERISA, Banking and Financial Services
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- Partner Intellectual Property
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- Associate Trusts and Estates, Tax
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- Associate Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Corporate and Business Transactions
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- Partner Corporate and Business Transactions, Government and Government Contracts, International Transactions, Real Estate
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- Professionals, Director and Founder