Enrique Hernandez-Pulido

Enrique provides international tax planning and related international matters, particularly Mexican and U.S.-Mexican legal matters. Enrique represents clients in the development of business transactions, worldwide investment and financing structures, planning for worldwide income and estate and inheritance taxes. He serves on Procopio’s Management Committee, founded its Latin America practice, and co-leads its Beer, Wine and Spirits practice.

Enrique worked for ten years in the Mexican government in the areas of tax, finance and administration, acting as Subprocurador Fiscal de la Federación (Under Fiscal Federal General Attorney) in charge of consultation and legislative issues, Director General Jurídico (Legal General Director) of IPAB (Mexico’s Bank Deposit Insurance Federal Authority) and Director Jurídico (General Counsel) of FIDELIQ. Before his public career, Enrique was an associate attorney for the law firm of Bryan, González Vargas y González Baz in Mexico City. Before relocating to San Diego, he was on the faculty at ITAM (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) in Mexico City teaching advanced courses in tax law in its School of Law.

Enrique is a past chair of the International Law Section and of the International Tax Committee of the Tax Section of the California State Bar and of the International Law Section of the San Diego Bar Association. He is a member of the Practice Council for NYU’s School of Law’s LLM in International Tax and of the Council for the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies of the University of California, San Diego.

Enrique has published articles on tax law and policy and has directed several tax related professional thesis. He is a frequent speaker at international tax events through Latin America, Mexico and the U.S., including those organized by the International Fiscal Association (IFA), Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the Mexican Bar Association, the California Bar Association (now California Lawyers Association), the New York Bar Association, the Mexican Institute of Public Accountants, the Inter-American Association of Public Accountants and many other national and regional lawyer and CPA associations, among others. He is a prolific writer of articles and essays on international tax topics and has been the subject of various media interviews in Mexico and the U.S.