Agustín Ceballos is a Shareholder and Chair of Buchalter’s Latin America practice group and a member of the Corporate and Tax, Benefits and Estate Planning practice groups.

Representative Work 

• Advise on multi-generation succession planning for foreign nationals
• Counsel clients on cross-border estate, gift and generation skipping tax planning and compliance
• Advise foreign financial institutions and non-financial foreign entities (including corporate service providers, funds, trust companies, and other financial intermediaries) to ensure proper compliance with FATCA and CRS
• Represent clients on initial structuring of U.S. and Mexican investments
• Provide counsel to estates of foreign decedents with U.S.-situs property
• Advise foreign investors on the U.S. state and federal tax implications of operating a business
• Represent financial institutions with respect to the U.S. tax treatment of foreign account holders
• Provide counsel to clients on tax-free reorganizations involving cross-border mergers
• Advise clients on withholding obligations (and applications for reduced withholding) on the sale of U.S. real property interests held by foreign investors
• Represent and advise entities and individuals in audits with the IRS, Franchise Tax Board, and Board of Equalization
• Provide counsel to clients on streamlined and voluntary disclosure filings
• Advise clients on pre-immigration tax strategies and on renouncing U.S. citizenship

Awards and Honors

• Fulbright Garcia-Robles Scholarship
• Selected to Best Lawyers in America – Ones to Watch 2024-2025

Professional Involvement

• State Bar of California, International & Taxation Law Sections
• San Diego County Bar Association
• Executive Committee International Law and Immigration Section I California Lawyers Association

Bar Admissions

• California

• Enforcement Of International Tax Reporting Is Heating Up
• FBARs, FATCA, and Foreign Nationals: Where are We Headed?
• Guidance Needed Regarding Federal Estate Taxation of Exchange Traded Funds Owned by Nonresident Aliens
• FATCA: A Primer and Current Practical Developments
• Mexico’s Proposed Tax Reform: International and Cross border Highlights