Raimundo Lopez-Lima

AbitOs, PLLC

Raimundo

Lopez-Lima

AbitOs, PLLC

Managing Partner, AbitOs Accountant + Advisors, Coral Gables,, USA

• Raimundo Lopez-Lima Levi is the Managing Partner of AbitOs based out of Coral Gables in Miami, Florida.
• With over two decades of experience, Raimundo has served as an auditor and tax adviser to both public and private companies in the United States with both domestic and multinational operations. As a recognized expert in international tax matters, he has often been called upon to offer expert testimony in real estate and commercial disputes, valuations, fraud and corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion in both the US and international courts.
• Raimundo serves as a tax adviser to several multinational firms engaged in commercial real estate throughout the United States, Europe, Caribbean, Middle East, and Latin America.
• Raimundo has extensive experience conducting internal and external financial investigations involving high-net-worth individuals, businesses, and corporations both domestically and internationally. He has also conducted various operational audits, efficiency studies, and studies of internal control structures for both domestic and foreign companies, as well as translations of International Accounting Standards to the United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Raimundo is highly sought after for his experience in forensic accounting and family law services, such as the preparation of financial affidavits, alimony, and child support calculations, identifying the assets and liabilities of the parties, and performing valuations.
• He is one of only very few Partner level executives that is as well respected for his knowledge and expertise in domestic as well he is in international tax and accounting matters. He is well-known for his knowledge of international tax and corporate structures, income and estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, corporate restructuring, as well as for his work on voluntary disclosure cases, pre-immigration planning, and the creation of corporate structures.

Raimundo has had a distinguished career as a professional authority on international tax matters. He has often served in the courts as an expert witness and has provided forensic accounting services for several significant cases, legal matters, and corporate restructurings.
Raimundo has:
• Performed consulting expert services on behalf of the United States Department of Justice in a matter involving a manufacturer of building materials. Performed forensic accounting and investigated wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to a United States government agency.
• Performed forensic accounting and investigation services on the deferred prosecution agreement of a global telecommunications equipment company; calculated damages associated with the contract, involving bribery charges and loss of profits related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation into the worldwide sales practices of the company.
• Provided forensic accounting and litigation support to counsel with Company incorporation with the US Secret Service. Determined fraudulent credit cards were used by the company's Controller and performed calculation of damages suffered by the company of a fraudulent scheme.
• Provided forensic accounting and litigation support services to the World Bank in connection with a lack of compliance loan in Guatemala. Scope of services included the identification, review, and detailed analysis of volumes of transactions and documentation reflecting the flow of funds from the World Bank to the sponsoring bank, then to the entity loaned, determining which entities were owned wholly or in part by the owners of Guatemala, and identified which fraudulent transfers of funds were paid to the related party. Also, analyzed the financial condition of the company and identified the ultimate beneficiaries of the fraudulent transfers.
• Represented a lender, investigated a mortgage banker who had loaned funds to a related party in a commercial real estate development. Analyzed evidence of loan and tax fraud; assisted in the identification of potential causes of action for misappropriated assets and determined that there was evidence of self-dealing.
• Testified as an expert on behalf of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago; served the Judge by investigating allegations of corruption, fraud, money laundering regarding the Construction Project #6, in the amount of$19,000,000 for the Piarco International airport of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Provided and implemented restructuring for a multi-level travel agent client with operations in the US and Central and South America. The enterprise had over 600,000 independent distributors and over 80 employees. Assisted the client in the restructuring of the logarithmic model for purposes of calculating commissions based on genealogy. Proposed closing unprofitable countries and assisted the client in formulating a plan to restructure company debts.

• Certified Public Accountant – State of Florida, State of Texas
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
• Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA)
• Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE)
• National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA)
• Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)

• English, Spanish.