Arias, Fábrega & Fábrega

Mr. Aparicio is member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He is also Head of the firm’s Capital Markets & Banking Practice Group.

Mr. Aparicio is a skilled corporate lawyer used to advise clients on highly complex infrastructure finance projects, both in the private and public side, with a special focus on the energy, public transportation, roadways, airports, and health sectors.

Mr. Aparicio has outstanding deal management and broad expertise setting up a variety of structures, including syndicated and bilateral, secured and unsecured, and domestic and cross-border financing. He has represented creditors in the biggest and perhaps most complex transactions in Panama in recent years, including the expansion of the Tocumen International Airport; the construction of the first and second line of the Panama City Metro; the construction of the Cinta Costera phases I, II and III; and the implementation of the Metro Bus, Panama City new public transportation system.

He has a unique insight to the power generation industry and the Panamanian government “green energy” policy favoring wind, solar, gas, and hydroelectric generation, having represented the lenders that have provided financing to over 35% of the total generation capacity of the country.

Estif Aparicio joined the firm in 2000 and became a partner in 2011.

From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Aparicio worked for the Panamanian government as Chief Trade Negotiator of all bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. As Chief Trade Negotiator, Mr. Aparicio coordinated Panama's participation in the Doha Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organization and successfully negotiated free trade agreements with the United States, Singapore, and Chile.

From 2006 to 2007, Mr. Aparicio worked for the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, participating in capital markets, M&A and project finance transactions.

Spanish, English.

Senior Vice-Chair (2020-2021), Vice-Chair (2018-2019) and Secretary of the International Bar Association, Latin American Regional Forum Committee (2017–2018). Director of Ricardo Pérez, S.A. (present). Director and President of the Compliance Committee of Auto Trust, S.A. (present). Director and President of the Compliance Committee of Corporación Financiera de Equipos, S.A. (present). Director and President of the Compliance Committee of Seguros Centralizados, S.A. (present).

University of Houston, LLM (1996). Fulbright Scholar. University of Panama, LLB, (1994). Admitted: Panama, New York.