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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Costa Rica

Working with the Legal Arm advising on key contracts, legal operations, and regulatory compliance in Latin America, evaluating different risks and advancing best practices for civic society, NGOs, and human rights defenders.

Costa Rica

• Legal consultant in commercial law, corporate governance, compliance, stakeholder management and transactional risks for private clients• Consultant for the public, non-governmental and academic sectors on issues of governance, strategy, and public policy.• Consultant, researcher, and columnist on topics relating to economic growth and social development in the region with a focus on women's empowerment as a necessary condition for both.

Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

• Supervised the implementation strategy of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) among the responsible Ministries and government entities, achieving national implementation progress of 75% (from 63%).• Supervised the process of institutional strengthening of the national customs authority, with focus on the design and implementation of governance policies and the inclusion of women.• Formulation of gender perspective guidelines to be included on trade liberalization processes, in collaboration with UNCTAD’s gender and commerce programme. • Supervised the Customs' pre-closing analysis for the Phase-One Trade Deal with the US.• Lead the strategy and design of the inter-institutional procedure between the National Customs Service and the National Intellectual Property Service for the establishment of precautionary measures at the border for IP infringement.• Co-author of the Compendium: "Ecuador Grows without Malnutrition”. A study based on the implementation of the first national policy strategy focused on reducing and eradicating this multidimensional problem and the Vice Presidency's work in the 6 cantons with the highest child malnutrition in Ecuador.

Short-time research assistant for the project "COVID-19, Public Policy and Commercial Law" led by Professors Horst Eidenmüller, Kristin van Zwieten and Oren Sussman.

Ecuador

Law firm authorized to act as bondholder representative, representing investors in over 200 corporate bond issuances in the Ecuadorian securities markets. In addition, the company provides corporate legal advise to private and publicly traded companies.Main responsibilities:• Legal advice and compliance counseling for over 80 private and publicly traded companies within the industries of finance, construction & real state, agribusiness, retail, education, consulting, and international franchises.• Assisted in the negotiation between parties of commercial and trust agreements, incorporations, M&A, capital increases and stock purchases of amounts up to USD 2M per transaction.• AML/CFT compliance.• Tax advice and management of tax contingencies in corporate transactions.

Guayaquil

Company authorized act to as trustee for over 60 trusts commercial trusts and a securitization processMain responsibilities:• Structured the first venture capital trust from public banking in Ecuador "CFN Fondo Capital de Riesgo" channeling USD 20M to technological ventures (Sep 2018 – Aug 2019).• Structured commercial trusts comprising guarantees, real estate management, real estate projects, commercial management and cash flow management, both for national and international, private and public parties, representing over USD 50M in AUM.• Legal advice, risk assesment and compliance counseling based primarily on corporate and securities market legal requirements.

Ecuador

Main responsibilities:• Development and implementation of anti-money laundering prevention policies for all the commercial and administrative processes of the company.• Special project: Private sector delegate for the FATF’s in situ visit that resulted in Ecuador’s exclusion from the list of jurisdictions with strategic deficiencies in anti-money laundering (2015).

Ecuador

Company managing over 260 commercial trusts representing USD 1,400M in AUM.Main responsibilities:• Assisted in the structuring of commercial trusts for cash flow, assets and real estate management for private and public, national and international parties, including:- Cuenca’s Cathedral Restoration Trust (World Heritage Site).- Ispirato Corpo Art Management Trust.- Guaranty trusts for international credit lines to the agribusiness sector for USD 15M.

Master Of Science In Law And Finance, Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law, (Distinction)

Activities and Societies: Linacre College, Oxford Union, Oxford Law Society• Principles of Financial Economics • Finance • Investing.

Bachelor Of Laws - Llb, Derecho, Gpa 94.90/100

• Corporate Law Minor

Certificate Of Studies In Social Sciences And Humanities

• Development Economics • Long-Term Trends: An Economic and Social History Perspective • The Age of Economists: A History and a Critique •.