Education
- Bachelor of Laws – Universidad de Chile.
- Transfer Pricing – Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
Experience
Ignacio Gepp is a partner at Puente Sur, where he heads the tax practice and the firm’s business development. A lawyer from Universidad de Chile, he has practiced tax since 2007, advising local and multinational clients on transactional tax planning, international tax consulting, foreign investment structuring, transfer pricing, and tax audits and litigation. His practice spans, among others, the energy, mining, agribusiness, forestry, technology and telecommunications sectors.
Internationally, from 2022 to 2026 he chaired the Global YIN Committee—Young IFA Network—of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), the leading global organization devoted to international tax law, and served on its Supervisory Board. In 2026 IFA’s General Assembly appointed him to the Executive Board, a term he will take up at the end of the 2027 IFA Congress in Stockholm. He is a frequent speaker at IFA and Praxity Alliance events, particularly on the taxation of the digital economy.
He has been ranked in Chambers Latin America for ten consecutive years, in Chambers Global, in ITR World Tax as Highly Regarded, and in The Legal 500. In 2022, Bloomberg Tax named him International Tax Contributing Author of the Year. He has written for the Cahiers de Droit Fiscal International, IBFD’s International VAT Monitor and the Revista de Derecho Tributario de la Universidad de Concepción, and is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Tax and Tax Notes on Latin American tax policy.
He completed a transfer pricing program at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and is a member of the Chilean Bar Association. He works in Spanish and English.
Contact: igepp@puentesur.cl · +56 2 2496 1000