Juan Carlos Zegarra

Partner and cofounder

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Juan Carlos Zegarra is a partner and cofounder at Zegarra LLC Abogados, a law firm specializing in Corporate and Tax Law. Lawyer by Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú with more than 25 years’ experience in taxation of activities related to natural resources and in complex operations requiring local and international tax planning, providing strategies that consider integral matters of the business. He has participated in transactions for business acquisitions and transfers, including companies’ reorganizations. His experience includes advisory in patrimonial protection, international taxation, Investment protection agreements, stability agreements and the defense of such operations within the administrative, fiscal and judicial processes and procedures, local and international arbitration. He is currently a professor in the master’s program in Taxation at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and has taught postgraduate and undergraduate tax courses covering domestic taxation, international taxation, tax planning and mining taxation.

Ranked by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Leaders League and International Tax Review (ITR).

Education

Master of Business Administration by A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University (2017 – 2019).
Master of Business Administration by PUCP Business School (2017 – 2019).
Executive Program in International Tax Law – International Tax Center ITC Leiden, Panama (2016).
Management Program for Lawyers – Yale University (2014).
VI Course in International Tax Law – Profit Attribution for Permanent Establishments. Main speaker: Jacques Sasseville (OECD), Universidad de Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia (2013).
Diplomat in International Arbitration and Investments, Postgraduate School, Universidad del Pacifico (2012).
Lawyer graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru – PUCP (1998).

Associations

Member of the Tax Committee of the National Confederation of Private Entrepreneurial Institutions – CONFIEP (2005-2007 and 2021-2027).
Treasurer of the Directive Committee of Peruvian Institute of Tax Law – IPDT, for the period 2019 - 2023.
Member of the Committee for Tax Matters of the National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy – SNMPE, for the period 2021-2023.
Director of the Managing Committee of the Peruvian Institute of Tax Law (2013-2015 and 2017-2019)
Vice-President of the Committee for Tax Matters of the National Society of Mining, Oil and Energy – SNMPE, for the period 2017 – 2019.
Member of the Committee for Legal Matters of the American Chamber of Commerce of Peru - AMCHAM (2009).

Academic activities

Professor of the master’s degree in Tax Law, PUCP (2023 and 2024-1).
Professor of undergraduate courses: “General Tax Law” (2022 and 2002-2016) and “Tax Legislation” (2014) and, postgraduate courses, “International Tax Law” (2010) in PUCP’s Law School.
Peruvian National Rapporteur in IFA 2017, Buenos Aires.
Full-time professor of the course “Tax aspects in mining” in the Diplomat of Specialization in Mining Tax (2012) and “Tax planning of investments and operations” (2010) in ESAN University.

Affiliations

Instituto de Ingenieros de Minas del Perú – IIMP (2025)
International Fiscal Association – IFA Peru. (2005).
Peruvian Institute of Tax Law – IPDT (2003).
Lima Bar Association (1999).

Experiencia profesional

Consultant at Zuzunaga & Assereto Abogados (June 2023 - April 2024).
Founding partner at Zuzunaga, Assereto & Zegarra Abogados (January 2008 – May 2023).
Associate at Rubio, Leguía, Normand & Asociados Law Firm (1999 - 2008).

Languages

Spanish and English.