Andrés Celati Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Main point of contact for clients, many of whom include high-net-worth individuals, top FTSE 100 companies and government organisations. Core duties include advising clients on large cross-border transactions (including, among others, market openings for investment funds, setting up companies and branches overseas, and cross-jurisdictional litigation), complex diary management, legal drafting in various languages (English, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese), legal and regulatory research, comprehensive due diligence, legal translation and proofreading, liaising with foreign counsel to ensure clients’ specific goals and needs are met, and prioritising fee-earning work ensuring all deadlines are achieved.

London, England, United Kingdom

Successfully coordinated Spanish litigation, international fraud and real estate matters. Main duties included conducting pre-claim investigation and initial case assessment, extensive legal and case law research, drafting claim letters and pleadings, reviewing and organising evidence, drafting powers of attorney to meet specific clients’ needs, instructing overseas agents, extensive document review, legal translation and proofreading, and implementing internal and external procedures to improve performance within the firm and with our overseas partners.

London, England, United Kingdom

Main point of contact for all clients in the Spanish department. Core duties included organising and coordinating conveyancing matters from initial offer through to completion, large class actions and individual claims, drafting and reviewing contracts and pleadings, legal translation and proofreading, file maintenance ensuring compliance with SRA regulations, and providing overall assistance at Senior Partner level.

I continuously delivered high-quality, accurate and reliable translation, interpreting and proofreading solutions. Regular clients included Qatargas, Texas Secretary of State, WHO, DIF (Mexico), CONANI (Dominican Republic), the Mexican Federal Judiciary, B&M and other London-based law firms.

Assistant Lecturer in the module English Language and Law IV of the English/Spanish Legal Translation programme at the University of Buenos Aires. The course was entirely taught in English, and the syllabus included Family Law and the Law of Succession, Civil Procedure, Employment Law and Criminal Law in the English and US legal systems. I delivered lectures, prepared class materials and assessed students orally and in writing.