Edward Hamann Email and Phone Number

• Extensive commercial and residential experience in real estate transactions in: Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic, Anguilla, and Puerto Rico.• Commercial Transaction Underwriting experience for transactions in: Aruba, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Chile, Curacao, Ecuador, Grand Cayman, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.• Developed underwriting and escrow protocols and guidelines for in-country operations in Panama, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic.• Regulatory counsel regarding government filings in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.• Oversaw the translation and approval of the first Spanish title insurance policy to be approved in the Republic of Panama.• Conducted country due diligence on the real estate practices for the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Brazil, Panama, Nicaragua with the focus on establishing title insurance underwriting protocols and platforms.

- Responsible for transaction and country due diligence for the underwriting of Title Insurance on residential and commercial real estate transactions in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Key member of the development and expansion of LandAmerica's expansion of title insuance into Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic.- Developing functional and workable translations of title insurance policies and forms for regulatory approval, use and implementation in the underwriting of international title insurance transactions.- Training and developing agents in the Bahamas, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic on the core activities required in the effective underwriting of a title insurance file.