Alfredo Travieso Passios
Partner
• Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions
• Tax Law
• Wealth Management, Inheritance, and Family Law
• Corporate Finance, Banking, and Capital Markets
Personal Information:
Alfredo Travieso Passios is a Senior Partner at Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, where he joined in 1968. He advises business groups, multinational corporations, and family estates on corporate, tax, banking, and succession planning matters. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, cross-border tax structures, corporate reorganization, and legal frameworks for the protection and transfer of family wealth.
He has been recognized for over 18 consecutive years in the Chambers Latin America directory as a Senior Statesperson in Corporate Law / Mergers & Acquisitions and Tax Law.
Education:
• Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Law Degree, 1968.
• Specialization in Private Law, 1971.
• Accounting Course at the Banking Training Institute, 1969.
• Income Tax Course at the General Administration of Income Tax, Ministry of Finance, 1969.
• University of Michigan, additional coursework, 1970.
Academic activities:
Judicial activities:
Activities:
• Director of various companies and financial institutions.
• Member of the Venezuelan Association of Tax Law, since 1968.
• Member of the International Bar Association (IBA), since 1996.
• Former President of the Tax Committee of the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VenAmCham), 2000–2003.
• Former President of the Venezuelan Association of Financial Law (ASOVEDEFI), 2001–202.
• Member of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, since 2002.
• Member of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), since 2010.
• Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA – Venezuela Chapter), since 2010.
• Member of the Board of Directors of Colegio Santiago de León de Caracas, since 2015.
• Director of the Venezuelan Scouts Foundation, since 2017.
Publications:
• “Depreciation of Real Estate Owned by Legal Entities Leased to Third Parties during Fiscal Year 1967, under the New Income Tax Law of December 16, 1966”, in Law School Journal of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello No. 16, 1972–1973.
• “Tax Incentives in ALALC Countries”, in Caracas Stock Exchange Bulletin, 1973.
• “Constitutional Scope of the Municipal Revenue Autonomy”, in Tax Journal No. 54, 1992.
• “Inheritance and Gift Tax in Venezuelan Legislation”, in Legal Essays Celebrating 90 Years of Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, 2004.
• “Commentary on Redeemable Preferred Shares as a Family Planning Instrument from a Corporate and Tax Law Perspective”, in A Century of History and Law. 100 Years of Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, 2014.
Languages:
Spanish and English.