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Salomon Pelaez Cardona

Of Counsel | Colombia Tax, Corporate & Statutory Audit Counsel — Colombia Team

Where Colombian Law Meets the Numbers

Salomón Peláez Cardona serves as Of Counsel to Law Offices Of SRIS, P.C. and is a member of the firm’s Colombia team, working under the direction of Eric Duport Jaramillo, Lead Attorney for Colombia Operations. He is licensed in Colombia both as a lawyer (Abogado) and as a Certified Public Accountant (Contador Público) — a dual qualification that lets him analyze a matter from the legal side and the financial side at the same time. He works in Spanish; English-speaking clients meet with him through a firm-arranged interpreter, with Eric Duport Jaramillo coordinating the matter. For nearly two decades, Mr. Peláez Cardona has worked inside the books of Colombian companies as a statutory auditor (Revisor Fiscal) and as a tax and corporate advisor. For the firm’s clients, that means Colombian business, tax, and asset questions are handled by someone who has spent his career reading financial statements, tax returns, and corporate records the way regulators and auditors read them.
Blunt Truth: In Colombia, many business, inheritance, and divorce disputes are really tax and accounting disputes. If your lawyer cannot read a balance sheet, a tax return, or an audit opinion, you are negotiating half-blind. Mr. Peláez Cardona reads all three.

The Dual-Credential Advantage: Lawyer and Public Accountant

Mr. Peláez Cardona’s standing rests on two separate Colombian professional licenses and long-running audit and advisory work:
  • Licensed Colombian Lawyer (Abogado): Professional Card No. 266102, issued by the Consejo Superior de la Judicatura (2015).
  • Licensed Colombian Public Accountant (Contador Público): Professional Card No. 123548-T (2006).
  • Statutory Auditor (Revisor Fiscal) since 2008: Served as Delegate Statutory Auditor at D.C.P. Auditores y Revisores Fiscales S.A. (2008–2012), assigned to ten companies across manufacturing, telecommunications, real estate, and investment. He continues to serve as Revisor Fiscal for Colombian companies today.
  • Tax and Corporate Advisor since 2012: Ongoing tax, accounting, and corporate advisory work for Pereira business groups, real estate development companies, and family holding companies.

8 Core Practice Areas: A Financial-First Approach

Working within the firm’s Colombia team, Mr. Peláez Cardona brings his tax, accounting, and audit background to the following areas of Colombian law.

1. Colombian Tax Law & DIAN Matters

He advises individuals and companies on Colombian tax obligations, tax planning, and responses to inquiries and audits by the DIAN (Colombia’s national tax and customs authority), drawing on his postgraduate training in tax management.

2. Customs & Foreign Trade

With postgraduate training in customs management, he assists importers, exporters, and foreign investors with Colombian customs compliance and the tax consequences of cross-border trade.

3. Statutory Audit (Revisoría Fiscal) & Corporate Governance

Drawing on his years as a Revisor Fiscal, he advises companies and shareholders on audit requirements, internal controls, board and shareholder-meeting obligations, and governance compliance.

4. Business Law & Entity Formation

He assists foreign and local clients with forming and structuring Colombian entities, including the SAS (Sociedad por Acciones Simplificada), with attention to tax and accounting consequences from day one.

5. Contract Law

He reviews and drafts commercial agreements with a focus on the tax, payment, and accounting terms that often decide whether a contract works in practice.

6. Civil & Commercial Disputes

In business disputes, he supports the Colombia team with financial and accounting analysis — tracing funds, reviewing corporate records, and testing the other side’s numbers.

7. Trusts, Estates & Family Business Succession

His work with family holding companies informs his approach to succession planning, inheritance matters, and preserving family-owned businesses across generations.

8. Family Law — Financial and Asset Issues

In divorce and separation matters involving businesses or significant assets, he focuses on the financial side: identifying, valuing, and analyzing company interests and other property subject to division.

Education & Professional Training

Mr. Peláez Cardona’s legal and financial work is supported by formal training in law, accounting, tax, and commercial law:
  • Universidad Libre, Seccional Pereira: Law Degree (Abogado).
  • Pontificia Universidad Javeriana: Postgraduate Specialization in Commercial Law (2019).
  • Universidad Libre, Seccional Pereira: Postgraduate Specialization in Tax and Customs Management (2009).
  • Public Accountant (Contador Público): Professional degree, Pereira (2006).
  • Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín: Technologist in Cost and Budget Analysis (2000).

Important Disclosures

  • Jurisdiction: Mr. Peláez Cardona is not licensed to practice law in the United States. He works with clients of Law Offices Of SRIS, P.C. to provide legal services solely in Colombia.
  • Language: Mr. Peláez Cardona works in Spanish. For English-speaking clients, the firm arranges an interpreter, and matters are coordinated with Eric Duport Jaramillo.
  • Accounting services: References to his Colombian public accountant license describe his professional background. He is not a U.S. CPA, and the firm does not offer U.S. accounting or audit services.
  • Disclaimer: Past results do not predict future outcomes.
Law Offices Of SRIS, P.C. has locations in Fairfax, Ashburn, Arlington, Woodstock, Richmond, Rockville, Buffalo, Flanders, and Colombia (Pereira).
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