Fernando Barraza, CPA, MAcc

Fernando Barraza has built his career around high-net-worth families and business owners whose lives and businesses cross borders. These are families who built something extraordinary in one country and now live, invest, and raise the next generation in two or more.

His practice was built on a simple observation: successful international families usually have competent advisors in each country, and nobody coordinating between them. Tax systems do not naturally align across borders. Without intentional coordination, families end up with phantom income, double taxation, missed treaty benefits, or reporting failures that carry serious exposure.

Fernando bridges that gap with strategy, fluency, and precision. His deepest specialization is Latin America and US-Mexico cross-border planning, where his bilingual, bicultural fluency is a decisive advantage. But his work spans the globe: families and businesses connected to Canada, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He coordinates directly with attorneys, wealth managers, and accountants in each jurisdiction, and builds written strategies families can act on for generations.

His industry experience runs deep in the sectors where cross-border complexity concentrates: M&A and corporate transactions, corporate restructurings, construction, engineering, manufacturing, mining, hospitality, real estate, logistics, healthcare, trusts & estates, and finance.

At FreemanBarraza, Fernando leads the firm's international practice and works hand in hand with Eric Freeman on the engagements where their specialties meet: foreign investors in US real estate, US families with property abroad, and cross-border estates built around real estate portfolios.