Marcela Silva P.

Partner .

PRACTICE AREAS

Tax Law, Dispute Resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Partner since 2024
Partner, Grupo Vial Law Firm, 2022-2024, being previously Director as from 2020.
Director Deloitte Tax & Legal, International Tax, Head M&A Team, 2016-2019.
Senior Associate, Cariola Diez Pérez-Cotapos, 2014-2016.
Head of the International Audit Department, Chilean delegate to OECD -ATP Expert Group on exchange information, tax planning schemes, detection methods and response strategies (antecessor project BEPS), National Headquarters, Chilean IRS, 2011-2013.
International Tax Department, forming part of the tax treaty negation team, 2006-2010.
Lawyer Large Taxpayers Department and Auditing Directorate, Chilean IRS, 2003-2005.
Tax specialist, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2000-2003.
She is currently the Executive Secretary of AmCham’s Tax Roundtable, and She is currently being appointed as Chile´s Branch Reporter IFA Congress Cape Town 2024 (“Practical Approached to International Tax Dispute Prevention and Resolution”).
She is currently included in the Registry of Directors kept by the Pensions Supervisory Authority (“Superintendencia de Pensiones”).
Professor, Tax Treaties, Adolfo Ibáñez University, 2024.
Professor, Jurisprudence Workshop, Hybrids, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, 2024.
Professor to the Internal Revenue Service-Learning School, “Advanced International Taxation”, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 2022.
Professor, LL.M. Intellectual and Industrial Property, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2015- 2024.
Professor in Transfer Pricing, LL.M. in Taxation, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2014-2016.
Professor in International Taxation, LL.M. Universidad de Chile-KPMG, 2015.

Education

LL.B., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2000.
LL.M in International Taxation, University of Florida Gainesville, U.S.A., Book awards in Tax Treaties, Transfer Pricing, International Tax Planning, 2009-2010.
LL.M. in Tax Management, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile, 2003-2004.
Diploma in Board Management, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile, 2023.
Diploma in Tax Reform, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile, 2016.
Diploma in Leadership and Managerial Skills, P. Universidad Católica de Chile, 2012-2014.

Contact

msilva@abcia.cl

+56 2 23912030