Team

Team specialized in foreign-exchange, customs, tax, and corporate matters

At Hub Legal Advisors we bring together a team specialized in foreign exchange regime, compensation accounts, foreign-exchange exogenous information, DIAN requirements, Banco de la República, customs, foreign trade, tax, corporate law, and business legal matters. Our team supports domestic companies, foreign subsidiaries, and business groups that need technical judgment, timely response, and practical solutions for complex operations.

Experience

The firm is led by Oscar Torres, a recognized reference in foreign-exchange, tax, accounting, and foreign-trade matters, with a track record advising leading domestic and multinational companies. His experience allows Hub Legal to combine strategic vision, operational understanding, and the ability to respond to authorities, audits, reports, and information requests.
Oscar- Ándres Torres

Practice Focus

Foreign exchange regime, taxes, customs, accounting, business consulting, and international operations.

Leadership

Oscar Torres, recognized leadership in foreign exchange regime and international operations

Óscar Andrés Torres Puentes leads Hub Legal Advisors and is one of the firm’s key references in Colombian foreign exchange regime, foreign-exchange consulting, compensation accounts, obligations to the Banco de la República, foreign-exchange exogenous information, response to DIAN information requests, customs, taxes, and accounting matters related to international operations.
His career combines experience in statutory audit, consulting, comptrollership, accounting, customs, international foreign exchange, and taxes. He has advised domestic, foreign, and multinational companies in sectors such as services, oil & gas, trade, and manufacturing, with a vision that connects legal compliance with each organization’s financial, accounting, and operational reality.
Before founding and leading Hub Legal, he was part of PricewaterhouseCoopers between 2007 and 2018. From 2013 he led PwC’s international foreign-exchange practice within its Legal and Tax Services division, experience that strengthened his recognition in foreign-exchange matters, foreign-currency operations, regulatory reporting, oversight, and defense before authorities.
He is an accountant from Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, a specialist in Tax Sciences from Universidad Central, and holds specialized training in Colombian tax law and customs law.

Institutional Experience

We support leading companies in high-impact operations

The Hub Legal team has taken part in advisory work, audits, reviews, and support processes for leading domestic, foreign, and multinational companies, including organizations with intensive operations in foreign trade, international payments, investments, external debt, manufacturing, technology, services, healthcare, oil & gas, retail, logistics, food, software, pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, and other regulated sectors.
For reasons of professional confidentiality, we do not publish client names or details of specific matters. However, our experience is reflected in our ability to handle complex operations, information requests from authorities, foreign-exchange reporting, internal audits, oversight processes, document reviews, and business decisions that require technical precision and immediate response.

A team with legal, foreign-exchange, tax, customs, accounting, and operational experience

Hub Legal has professionals and partners specialized enough to address client matters from different angles. In foreign-exchange matters, this perspective is especially important, because an operation can involve reporting to the Banco de la República, foreign-exchange exogenous information, accounting records, customs documents, tax returns, contracts, bank transactions, and internal controls.

Specialists

Mauricio-Carvajal

Mauricio Carvajal Córdoba

Associate

Derecho corporativo, tributario, revisoría fiscal y contraloría.

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Tomás Barreto Ramírez

Associate

Aduanas, comercio exterior, consultoría, contraloría, contabilidad y derecho tributario.
Daniel

Daniel Barreto Ramírez

Tax Specialist

Especialista en Derecho Corporativo, Laboral, Comercial, Contractual y Tributario

Administrative

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María del Pilar Viana

Administrative Manager

Gestión administrativa, coordinación interna y soporte operativo de la firma.
Meryls Manjarres

Merlys Majarres

Administrative Management

Gestión administrativa, coordinación interna y soporte operativo de la firma.

HUB Ecosystem

A team connected to the HUB ecosystem

Our work is strengthened by the HUB ecosystem, which brings together legal, foreign-exchange, accounting, tax, financial, technology, and training capabilities. This lets us address client matters from a complete perspective without losing the specialization of each front.

For matters that require accounting, financial, tax, or administrative support, we work in coordination with Hub Accountants. For operational control of compensation accounts and foreign-exchange reporting, we use partner tools such as Akountik. For training internal teams, we have Hub Academy and the Diploma in Foreign Exchange Regime.

Contact

Talk to a specialist in foreign exchange regime, DIAN, customs, or tax

Tell us what you need to resolve and we’ll connect you with the right professional. We can help you review foreign-exchange operations, compensation accounts, DIAN information requests, foreign-exchange exogenous information, matters before the Banco de la República, customs processes, foreign trade, tax, and corporate law.

Mauricio Carvajal Córdoba

Mauricio Carvajal Córdoba

Asociado | Derecho corporativo, tributario, revisoría fiscal y contraloría

Mauricio Carvajal Córdoba cuenta con experiencia en derecho corporativo, derecho tributario, revisoría fiscal y contraloría. Es abogado y contador, con formación especializada en gestión tributaria, tributación internacional, contratos y convenios para evitar doble imposición. Su trayectoria incluye experiencia en firmas, entidades financieras, sector público y cámaras de comercio, así como asesoría a compañías de sectores como manufactura, comercio, software, tecnología, aviación, construcción y real estate.

Tomás Barreto Ramírez

Tomás Barreto Ramírez

Asociado | Aduanas, comercio exterior y derecho tributario

Tomás Barreto Ramírez cuenta con amplia experiencia en asuntos aduaneros y de comercio exterior. Su práctica se relaciona con consultoría, contraloría, contabilidad, aduanas, derecho privado económico, derecho financiero y derecho tributario. Ha acompañado clientes de sectores como farmacéutico, salud, retail, software, logística y alimentos, y cuenta con trayectoria en entidades de fiscalización y comercio exterior, firmas reconocidas, docencia y producción académica en temas aduaneros y tributarios.

Daniel Felipe Castellanos Contreras

Daniel Felipe Castellanos Contreras

Especialista tributario, Corporativo y Comercial

Daniel Felipe Castellanos Contreras cuenta con más de 17 años de experiencia en derecho corporativo, asesorando empresas del sector real en asuntos societarios, contractuales, laborales y tributarios. Ha integrado juntas directivas y liderado la gerencia legal de diversas compañías, con enfoque en cumplimiento normativo, estructuración contractual, gestión de riesgos, gobierno corporativo y acompañamiento jurídico estratégico para organizaciones con operaciones relevantes.

María del Pilar Viana

María del Pilar Viana

Gerente administrativa

María del Pilar Viana lidera la gestión administrativa y la coordinación operativa interna de Hub Legal. Su rol facilita la organización de procesos, la atención de clientes y el soporte necesario para que los equipos técnicos puedan responder de manera ordenada, oportuna y eficiente.

Merlys Manjarres

Merlys Manjarres

Gestión Administrativa

Merlys cuenta con más de 10 años de experiencia en el área contable y actualmente se desempeña como Directora Contable en Hub Accountants SAS. Su experiencia incluye la aplicación de políticas NIIF, revisión de información contable, liquidación de impuestos nacionales y municipales, consolidación de informes financieros y atención de requerimientos de entidades como la DIAN y la Superintendencia de Sociedades. Ha liderado procesos contables y tributarios en empresas del sector construcción y comercio, incluyendo estados financieros, nómina, seguridad social, cartera y reportes para la toma de decisiones.