With over 32 years in the market, Lewin & Wills is an international boutique dedicated to domestic and international taxation, foreign exchange and foreign investment laws, foreign trade and customs laws, corporate and commercial laws, business law, estate and tax planning for high net worth individuals and family owned enterprises, and arbitration, as well as client representation in controversies and litigation in the areas of tax, foreign investment, foreign exchange, and foreign trade. With a vast trajectory in domestic and international transactions and ventures, the firm's clients include important national and multinational, public and private corporations in different sectors including, among others, power generation, oil and gas, energy, mining, banking and finance, and telecommunications.
For a third year in a row since 2009, Lewin & Wills has been ranked by Chambers & Partners as one of the two top tax practices in "Band 1" in Colombia. According to the 2011 Chambers Latin America Client's Guide: "This outstanding tax boutique is particularly well managed and its small size ensures clients have permanent and direct access to the partners, according to sources. The firm has a great reputation and is known for providing superb quality work. The team is extremely active and provides tax and general legal advice to important business client." Also International Tax Review's World Tax guide has consecutively ranked Lewin & Wills as one of the leading tax law practices in "Tier 1" in Colombia. In addition to a wide base of Colombian and Latin American clients from the private, public, governmental and multi-laterals sectors, Lewin & Wills has advised multi-national clients in many industries, such as: Pacific Rubiales, BP, Shell, Chevron Petroleum Company, Exxon Mobil, Schlumberger, Amoco, Ecopetrol, Petrobras, Occidental Petroleum, Coalcorp, Xstrata, Glencore, Anglo Coal, BHP Billiton, Trafigura Beheer, Energold drilling, Umicore, Alstom, Sagem, ISA, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, Telmex, Siemens, Sony, Starkey Laboratories, DirecTV, British American Tobacco, SAB Miller, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Bimbo, Sucromiles, Natura, ABS, Cemex, Beiersdorf, Bristol Myers Squibb, Dow Chemical, BASF, Merck, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered, HSBC, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, BBVA, AON, among many others.
Lewin & Wills is a founding member and the Colombian member firm of Lataxnet - Latin American Tax & Legal Network. Created on 2003, Lataxnet currently covers 17 countries in Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. Lataxnet is a network of law firms with a strong practice and well-reputed leading individuals in the tax field in their jurisdiction. Through a peer-to-peer relation, Lataxnet has built a strong network of law firms in the Latin America region offering a variety of multi-jurisdictional tax and legal services, allowing its member law firms to render a one-stop regional reach service in each and all of the 17 jurisdictions covered.
Lewin & Wills is actively involved in probono work specially as a founding member of the Colombian Pro bono Association and of Dividendo por Colombia an association that provides education to under privileged children.