Arias

Mergers and Acquisitions

Corporate and Commercial law

Banking, Finance and Insurance

Partner.

Roberta Gallardo has been a partner at Arias since 2007. She joined the firm in 1999, becoming an Associate in 2003, with emphasis on corporate, commercial, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, and competition.

Her experience is initially developed in the corporate area, providing advice to national and international companies with a presence in the Central American region, as well as to companies with their operation in El Salvador attending to their daily legal needs. She has also assisted multinational companies in the establishment of their businesses or start of operations in the country, accompanying them through the corporate and regulatory processes related to the business. As part of her corporate practice, Roberta has experience providing legal advice in corporate law to companies subject to special regimes such as the International Services Law, as well as in the legal formalization of contracts of various kinds for these companies.

Other areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions and project finance, having been involved in large-scale transactions over the past 20 years. Her practice also includes financing and complex structuring issues.

She has coordinated and advised numerous mergers and acquisitions transactions, analyzed competition aspects related to concentrations, participated in financing, assisted companies in the establishment of their local businesses, as well as in restructurings and shareholder relations.

She has also advised regulatory authorization processes of transactions in different sectors, successfully.

Spanish and English

International Bar Asociation (IBA).

Law Degree from Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado with honors. Authorized as a Practicing Attorney and Notary Public by the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador. Program of Negotiation for Lawyers (PIL) at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.