Serviliano Abache Carvajal
Biography
Serviliano Abache Carvajal is a Venezuelan tax attorney. He advises domestic and multinational enterprises in several industries, such as cleaning products manufacturers and industrial cleaning services, banking and finance, insurance and reinsurance, retail and wholesalers, rice industry, advertising and marketing, graphic arts, construction, real estate, security, technology and telecommunications, among others.
Serviliano is also a law professor at Universidad Central de Venezuela and Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Venezuela. He is a regular speaker in tax forums and seminars, has authored and coordinated 19 books, and is the author of over 200 articles.
Practice Focus
Representative Legal Matters
- Advised a large cleaning products manufacturer and industrial cleaning services group on its merger and the best corporate structure for the group's manufacturing business.
- Helped design and implement a business model for a retail and wholesalers group, with detailed analysis on the tax consequences arising from such design and implementation.
- Advised an important reinsurance company on the tax consequences arising from the reinsurances and retrocessions accepted from foreign insurance companies.
Professional Honors
- “FELABAN-COLADE Legal Monographs Contest,” senior category (2018). Award-winning monograph: Préstamos intragrupo, intereses financieros y fiscalidad internacional (Intragroup Loans, Financial Interests and International Taxation). Granted by: Latin American Federation of Banks (FELABAN) / Latin American Committee of Financial Law (COLADE).
- “Academy of Political and Social Sciences Award,” senior category (2012-2013). Award-winning book: La atipicidad de la “presunción” de legitimidad del acto administrativo y la carga de la prueba en el proceso tributario (The Atypical Nature of the “Presumption” of Legitimacy of the Administrative Act and the Burden of Proof in the Tax Process), Editorial Jurídica Venezolana / Fundación Estudios de Derecho Administrativo, 2012. Granted by: Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Caracas Bar Association - Member
- International Fiscal Association - Member
- Venezuelan Association of Tax Lax - Member
- Latin American Tax Institute - Board Member
Admissions
- Venezuela (2002)
Education
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (International Tax Diploma) (2015)
- Universidad de Alicante (LLM Legal Reasoning, summa cum laude) (2012)
- Universidad Central de Venezuela (LLM Tax Law, summa cum laude) (2010)
- Universidad Central de Venezuela (JD, magna cum laude) (2002)
Languages
- English
- Spanish