Fernando Pliego Vincent

Salles Sainz Grant Thornton S.C., whose Mexican transfer pricing practice is led by partner Fernando Pliego Vincent, has been named Transfer Pricing Advisory Firm of the Year in Mexico at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The recognition reflects the strength of the firm's dedicated transfer pricing offering and its ability to support multinational and domestic groups in one of the most scrutinised areas of international tax.

Salles Sainz Grant Thornton is a Mexican professional services firm offering audit, tax, business advisory, business process solutions, transfer pricing and foreign trade services. It operates as a member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, with a presence across multiple locations in Mexico, and serves both private and public enterprises. Membership of the Grant Thornton network connects the firm to an international organisation spanning more than 140 countries, giving its clients access to coordinated cross-border support while retaining the benefit of detailed local knowledge of the Mexican market.

Transfer pricing, known in Spanish as precios de transferencia, is maintained as a distinct practice area within the firm's core service offering. The discipline concerns the pricing of transactions between related entities within a corporate group and sits at the centre of contemporary international tax compliance and controversy. As tax authorities in Mexico and around the world intensify their examination of intra-group arrangements, businesses require advisers who can document, defend and structure their related-party dealings in line with the arm's length principle, and the firm's dedicated practice is built to meet precisely that need.

The practice is led by Fernando Pliego Vincent as Transfer Pricing Practice Lead Partner, providing senior direction to the firm's work in this specialised field. The firm's wider strengths reinforce that offering: it emphasises customised service delivery and maintains dedicated capabilities for international clients, including a Japan Desk supporting Japanese companies operating in Mexico and an International Business Center that assists clients with cross-border operations. These resources are well matched to transfer pricing work, which almost always involves groups with operations and reporting obligations in more than one jurisdiction.

Bringing together a specialist transfer pricing team, the breadth of a full-service tax and advisory practice, and the reach of a global network, Salles Sainz Grant Thornton offers clients a rounded response to the demands of modern transfer pricing. Under Mr Pliego's leadership the practice helps groups manage documentation, planning and the risk of dispute in an environment of rising regulatory expectations. The 2024 Corporate INTL Global Award recognises the firm as a leading transfer pricing adviser in Mexico and celebrates the depth of expertise it brings to this critical area of international taxation.