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Fernando Ugaz Zegarra

Fernando Ugaz Zegarra

Work Department

Dispute Resolution: White Collar Crime

Position

Managing Partner

Head of the Dispute Resolution: White Collar Crime Department

Career

Founding partner of Ugaz Zegarra y Abogados Asociados Law Firm, Fernando is a lawyer from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, with a master's degree in Law with a mention in Criminal Sciences from the same university. In addition, he is a specialist in negotiation from CENTRUM – Graduate Business School -Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a specialist in oral litigation from the California Western School of Law. He is a member of the Lima Bar Association and has been a professor at the Academy of the Judiciary, as well as at some of the most important universities in the country such as the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, University of Piura and the School of Law of the National Unit of the Center in Huancayo. In 2017, he participated in the development program: "Leadership and decision making, strategy, entrepreneurship & innovation, International Negotiations and Strategic Marketing" at the renowned Harvard University, in Massachusetts, United States. Finally, in 2020, after attending the course “New Dilemmas of Comparative Constitutionalism” at the Faculty of Law of the Externado University of Colombia, he took the course “Methodology of Legal Comparison: Models of Constitutional, Supranational, Electoral and Environmental Justice” at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy. His extensive studies and vast experience also allow him to constantly teach advanced courses and workshops at an international level, as well as numerous conferences, diplomas and seminars regarding Criminal Law, Corporate Law, Criminal Compliance, among others. Committed to the academic community and to the correct practice of the profession, Fernando Ugaz Zegarra is a national reference in Law and is President of the Ibero-American Association of Criminal Compliance and the Peruvian Institute of Criminal Negotiation and Dejudicialization.

Memberships

Lima Bar Association

Ibero-American Association of Criminal Compliance

Peruvian Institute of Criminal Negotiation and Dejudicialisation

Mentions