International tax · Corporate · Private wealth · Panamá
Paradigma is a boutique legal and corporate advisory in Panama City. We design international structures for businesses and families, then coordinate the lawyers, accountants and fiduciaries in each jurisdiction until the structure is actually running.
Each path has its own first conversation. Pick the one that matches your situation and we’ll route you to the right person on the first call.
Lawyers, accountants, wealth managers and trust companies abroad bring us in to handle the Panamanian and Latin American elements of a matter. We report to you, in your format, and never go around you.
Operating companies moving into Panama or the region, or using Panama as a hub. We map the decisions before you commit capital: entity type, regime, tax position, people, banking, and the order to do it in.
Private clients with international property, companies and heirs. We build succession and wealth structures that work in every jurisdiction involved, and we handle residency and property in Panama directly.
Six practice areas. Most engagements touch two or three of them, which is the point: one team holds the whole picture instead of handing you between firms.
Panama taxes on a territorial basis, which makes it a useful hub only if the structure is designed and documented properly. We advise on entity selection, substance, treaty positions and the interaction with your home-country rules, then set the structure up.
Deal and contract work for operating businesses: buying or selling a company, joint ventures, distribution and supply agreements, shareholder arrangements, and the regulatory approvals that come with them.
Structures that keep family assets organised, protected and transferable across generations and borders, using Panamanian private interest foundations, trusts and corporate vehicles, coordinated with advisers in the family’s other jurisdictions.
Residency and work authorisation in Panama for investors, executives, retirees and their families. We match the route to your actual plans and timelines, not the other way round, and handle the filings end to end.
Buying, selling, developing or holding property in Panama, from title review to closing, with the ownership vehicle chosen to fit your tax and succession plan.
Panama runs the world’s largest ship registry. We handle vessel registration, mortgages, ownership structures and licences for owners and operators who want the flag without the paperwork.
Most cross-border work fails between the memo and the bank account. Our process is built around closing that gap.
One structured conversation to map the jurisdictions, assets, people and deadlines involved. You leave with a written summary of options and what each would cost.
A structure and a sequence. We confirm the tax and legal position in each country with our partner firms before anything is filed.
Incorporations, foundations, registrations, residency filings, bank onboarding and property closings, coordinated from Panama with one point of contact.
Annual compliance, substance, filings and changes as your business or family evolves. The structure stays current instead of quietly going stale.
Partner network
We work with established lawyers, accountants, wealth managers and fiduciaries in each of these jurisdictions, plus relationships with the financial institutions your structure will need. You brief us once; we coordinate the rest.
A small, senior team. The partner you meet on the first call is the partner who runs your matter.
Managing Partner
Leads the firm’s tax and structuring practice. Before founding Paradigma he was Country Manager for Amicorp in Panama, running corporate and fiduciary services for international clients. He is the firm’s lead on technical matters and partner-firm coordination.
Director of Business Development
First point of contact for new clients and referring firms. Guillermo scopes each matter, assembles the right team across the network and stays on the engagement so there is always one person who knows where everything stands.
Director of Operations
Runs implementation: filings, registries, bank onboarding, compliance calendars and the hand-offs between partner firms. If step three of our process happens on time, that is Juan Diego.
Short, practical notes on the regimes and decisions our clients ask about most. Written by the partners, reviewed before publication.
The special economic area offers real tax and immigration benefits, but only for defined activities. A plain-language walk through eligibility, substance and the annual obligations.
What the SEM licence covers, the minimum requirements, how the 5% rate works, and the work-permit advantages for executives you relocate.
When a Panamanian foundation does the job, when a trust is the better tool, and why the answer usually depends on where the heirs live rather than where the assets are.
Start here
A first consultation is a working session, not a sales call. Come with the facts you have; we’ll map the options and tell you plainly whether we are the right firm for it.