Gabriel Guardado Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, TX, US

San Antonio, Texas, United States

San Antonio, Texas Area

San Antonio, Texas Area

San Salvador, El Salvador

• Advance Canada's bilateral and multilateral relations in El Salvador and provide political and legal advice to senior Canadian staff.
• Recommend, develop and execute targeted and non-targeted advocacy events and other initiatives, on strategic issues to advance Canada's policy objectives in El Salvador.
• Manage the Mission's Canada Fund for Local Initiatives and Post Initiative Fund Programs - draft and negotiate agreements related to these funds.
• Draft strategic planning for the fiscal year in political and public affairs areas for the Embassy.
• Maintain contacts with local government, press and members of Embassies of like-minded countries to advance Canada's agenda in El Salvador.

San Salvador

• Public Notary for a Local Bank for the review and authorization of revolving credits, mortgages, syndicated loans, buy sales agreements of real estate property, powers of attorney, liens, swaps, among others.
• Advised a company for the establishment of a motorcycle assembling plant, with the view of complying all establishment and export requirements to different countries in Latin America under different FTA´s including the.
• Advised a company for the establishment of a branch of their company in the United States and to constitute franchise agreements for the constitution of a restaurant chain in the United States.
• Advisor to the Export Promotion Agency of El Salvador for the legal interpretation and translation of certain laws related to incentives for Free Trade Zones and Renewable Energy Production

San Salvador, El Salvador

• Attracted new investments for over US $30 million by establishing new contacts and persuading current ones, for the generation of new FDI in hotels and other real estate developments, as well as in the expansion of a.
• Negotiated and drafted two Letters of Intent and MOU for a multibillion dollar investment by an Asian company, on a diversified sector project to be established in El Salvador.
• Organized a Business Round Table in the framework of the visit of the Chilean President to El Salvador (2015), the 3rd Tourism Investment Forum (2015), the 1st International Investment Forum (2016) and an International.
• Attended different international events in the US, Europe, Asia and Latin America to promote investment in El Salvador.
• Acted as contract administrator for different studies funded by the IDB, in order to create Investment Promotion Strategies.
• Drafted different law proposals to improve the ease of doing business in El Salvador and the attraction of FDI, including in areas related to transparency, customs, labor flexibility and legal stability in investments.

San Salvador

• Contract administrator, reviewer, drafter and negotiator of the Terms of Reference for IDB market studies to create an Export Strategy to Mexico in the Agroindustry, Beverages and Manufacturing sectors, a market study.
• Drafted laws and regulations in order to improve the ease of doing business in El Salvador, including in areas related to transparency, customs, labor flexibility and legal stability in investments.
• Conducted due diligence processes for multinational companies interested on establishing or expanding operations in El Salvador.
• Advice potential investors of El Salvador´s Free Trade Agreements, regulations on investment and export, market conditions and national circumstances which may be of interest to decide on establishing operations in El.
• Generation of market intelligence reports, using Hoovers, Euromonitor, COMTRADE, Urunet, Trade Map, FDI Markets among other databases, to advice exporters and the establishment of investments in El Salvador.

San Salvador, El Salvador

• Trade Negotiator for Free Trade Agreements.
• Provided advice to El Salvador's mission in Geneva, Switzerland, for trade negotiation strategies at the World Trade Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
• Negotiation of the verification of origin process and coordination of the negotiations of the Partial Scope Agreement between Trinidad and Tobago and El Salvador.
• Analysis of domestic laws relating to subsidies and special fiscal regimes in El Salvador and Central America and how they would affect in the eventual multilateral application of the CAFTA Agreement.
• Participation in the process of incorporation of Panama to the Central American Agreement on Investment and Trade in Services (TICS for its Spanish acronym).
• Drafting and negotiation of specific activities and Terms of Reference, negotiated with the European Union Commission in order to create cooperation programs in the area of technology transfer within the framework of.

Geneva, Switzerland

• Participated in the elaboration and review of Appellate Body reports related to different international trade disputes.
• Acted as Rapporteur for the WTO Public Forum 2012 edition.
• Conducted research in relation to the application of different Multilateral Agreements of the World Trade Organization, as well as other international instruments that are relevant for the resolution of Appeals.
• Attended Dispute Settlement Body meetings as representative from the Appellate Body Secretariat.
• Acted as research assistant for Peter Van den Bossche in the 3rd edition of his book "The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization".

San Salvador

• Acted as Trade Negotiator for the FTA with Canada and with Mexico, the Association Agreement with the European Union and the Central American Economic Integration Process.
• Participated as member of the drafting committee of several implementation laws of the DR-CAFTA.
• Created national strategies and negotiating positions in coordination with El Salvador's permanent mission in Geneva for different international trade issues arising at the multilateral level; including in the WTO.
• With funding from the Central American Integration Bank, WTO, WIPO and the Interamerican Development Bank created different projects and events aimed at expanding knowledge of International Trade Regulations and.
• Coordinated El Salvador’s team to establish FTA negotiating strategies of all chapters of the trade negotiations with Canada and the convergence process of three Central American FTAs with Mexico.
• Acted as lead negotiator from El Salvador for a) the Intellectual Property (IP) and Procurement Chapters in the Association Agreement between the EU and Central America; b) the Procurement Chapter, in the Free Trade.

San Salvador

• Advised clients in bank loans and guarantees, corporate structures, shareholder and board of directors meetings, due diligence, shareholder agreements, asset purchases, supply and distribution agreements, registration.

San Salvador

• Assisted lawyers in the drafting of charter documents and bylaws for new legal entities, asset and share acquisition agreements, agency, distributorship, joint venture and shareholder agreements; provided advice for.
• Provided legal advice for different companies on share and asset acquisitions, registration of securities, securities emissions, emissions of sovereign bonds, international and domestic bank loans, incorporation of.
• Procured authorizations for clients in all major central government and municipal offices for companies in urban development, electricity distribution, financial services, textile, and pharmaceutical sectors
• Together with the financial team represented groups of majority shareholders, in the sale of their ownership interest in one local bank, including the structuring of their tender offers, escrow agreement and due.

Ll.M, International Business Law And Ip, Most Classes Approved With Honors Distinction

Activities and Societies: Founding Member of UC Berkeley Antitrust and IP Blog, Phi Alpha Delta MemberBerkeley, CA, USA

Certificate Of Specialization In Law And Technology, Intellectual Property Law

M.A., International Trade

Activities and Societies: Recipient of Dean's Award for Academic ExcellenceSuwon, South Korea

Licenciatura En Ciencias Juridicas, Law

San Salvador, El Salvador