Fernando Goyco-Covas
Mr. Fernando Goyco-Covas received his bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Catholic University of Puerto Rico and his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Puerto Rico Law School, where he was a member of the law review.
Mr. Goyco-Covas has devoted most of his more than 30 years of legal practice to provide tax advice to multinational companies with Puerto Rico operations, structure the operations of multinational companies in Puerto Rico, structure and negotiate complex business transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, structure financial products for the local market. He has also been very successful in the litigation of tax disputes in the Puerto Rico courts, jointly with members of our litigation department.
Mr. Goyco-Covas published “How Puerto Rico is a Tax Haven for the US” in the November 2005 edition of the International Tax Review and is the author of the tax practitioner chapter of Commerce Clearing House’s Puerto Rico Tax Service. He is also a frequent speaker at Puerto Rico tax seminars and has lectured on Puerto Rico tax matters at seminars sponsored by the Tax Executive Institute in Chicago and Washington, D.C. and in promotional seminars of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company throughout the United States and in South America. Mr. Goyco-Covas is also a founding member of Lataxnet, a network of tax and corporate lawyers from Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.
T. 787.281.1802
goyco@amgprlaw.com