Francisco Luis, CPA, Esq.

Francisco Luis, CPA, Esq., is a Partner and the Head of Tax at Kevane Grant Thornton, the Puerto Rico member firm of the Grant Thornton network, and has been named Tax Advisory Expert of the Year in Puerto Rico at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025. The individual award recognises his standing as one of the island's leading tax advisers and the breadth of the planning and consulting work he leads.

Mr. Luis brings more than thirty years of public accounting experience to his practice. As both a Certified Public Accountant and an attorney, he is able to bridge the accounting and legal dimensions of tax, an unusual combination that allows him to design and develop tax planning and consulting strategies with an eye to both technical compliance and commercial outcome. His work spans mergers and acquisitions, business reorganisations, partnership transactions, tax incentives and exemptions, and individual and corporate tax matters, extending where appropriate into clients' personal financial affairs.

A distinctive strand of his experience lies in international and cross-border work. He has participated in multiple global business transformation engagements, including post-acquisition implementation and the execution of strategies focused on reducing groups' global effective tax rates, frequently by interplaying with Puerto Rico's distinctive suite of tax incentives. This positions him to advise multinational businesses considering Puerto Rico as part of their structure, as well as local enterprises with international dimensions to their operations.

Mr. Luis also has significant experience representing clients before the tax authorities, assisting them in dealings with the United States Internal Revenue Service and the Puerto Rico Treasury Department. That controversy and compliance capability complements his planning work, giving clients continuity of advice from the design of a structure through to its defence and administration.

Kevane Grant Thornton provides tailored local, federal and international tax solutions intended to help clients minimise risk, seize opportunities and expand with confidence into new markets. As part of the Grant Thornton network, the Puerto Rico firm combines local knowledge of the island's particular tax and incentives regime with access to international resources, a pairing that is especially valuable given Puerto Rico's unique position within the United States tax system.

Puerto Rico's incentives programmes, its interaction with the federal tax code, and the international restructuring activity that flows through the island make sophisticated tax advice a genuine differentiator for businesses and individuals alike. Mr. Luis's combination of CPA and legal qualifications, three decades of experience, and a practice reaching from local compliance to global effective-rate planning is well matched to those demands.

His recognition as Tax Advisory Expert of the Year in Puerto Rico at the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 affirms both his personal expertise and the strength of the tax practice he heads at Kevane Grant Thornton. For clients navigating the complexities of Puerto Rico taxation, from incentives and reorganisations to disputes with the authorities, he offers experienced, senior-level guidance grounded in an international firm.