Bio

He has extensive and in-depth litigation experience involving multiple jurisdictions (Central America, Panama, Boston, New York, London, Amsterdam, among others) in insurance disputes, commercial disputes, financial agreement disputes, fraud, white-collar crime, insolvency, arbitration. and Government affairs. He has provided advice on several bankruptcies of banks, coordinating important local and foreign teams. During the last twenty-five years, he has represented and advised many local and foreign banks in cases in jurisdictions such as Central America, Panama, Boston, and New York. He has provided advice on several bankruptcies of banks, coordinating important local and foreign teams. He has also advised clients on international corporate financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, in Latin America and the United States. He was the private advisor to a Tax Administration Superintendent, as well as of Ministers of Economy and Finance. He was appointed by the World Bank as Temporary Legal Counsel in the Modernization Program (1996 and 1997). From 2003 to 2004 he was the Leader of the Insolvency/Bankruptcy Group of TerraLex, the main network of independent law firms worldwide. In 2007, he was appointed a member of the ICC Commercial Crimes Services Fraudnet Network, a global network of asset tracing and recovery lawyers, founded in 2004, operating under the auspices of the ICC Commercial Crime Services Unit based in London. He has provided advice for the execution of foreign judgments in Guatemala, having published papers on the subject, which have been published in Europe and the United States of America.