Maria S. Otero

Maria Otero is a private wealth services and tax attorney in Holland & Knight's Century City office. Ms. Otero focuses her practice on international income tax planning and compliance matters for high-net-worth private clients and multinational businesses.

Ms. Otero has experience advising on a broad range of international tax and estate planning matters, working with individuals and families with cross-border businesses and investments. She also advises corporate clients seeking to optimize their worldwide effective tax rate and to reduce foreign taxes through tax-efficient financing, efficient cash management, repatriation of earnings to the U.S. and transfer pricing analyses.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Otero was an attorney at a boutique private wealth services law firm in Los Angeles. Previously, she worked for a national firm of certified public accountants and concentrated her practice on cross-border tax planning and compliance.

Ms. Otero began her career at a Big Four accounting firm in Switzerland, where she consulted with individuals involved in multiple taxing jurisdictions. She also worked with a broad range of clients such as corporate executives on international assignments, as well as multinational high-net-worth individuals and families, business owners and investors.