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Jorge Luis Arenales
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Position
Partner
Career
Jorge is a partner of BLP with 25 years of experience. His areas of expertise are Business and Commercial Law, Banking & Finance, and Energy & Infrastructure. He is a legal advisor to local and international companies with extensive experience in Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial matters. He has led teams on multi-jurisdictional transactions in regulated industries such as Oil, Gas, Energy, and Telecommunications. Similarly, vast experience in Project Finance.
Extensive experience in the Public Procurement Area, such as Local and International Public Tenders, resulting in flagship infrastructure and energy projects in Guatemala.
He also acts as the Regional Representative for Europe for Invest Guatemala, Guatemala Moving Forward Plan.
He is currently a professor in the Business School of the Universidad Francisco Marroquin, in the MBA Program, Specialization in Finance, where he teaches the course of Legal and Economic Impact of Business Decisions.
Former professor in the M&A Course in the LLM Program, Universidad Francisco Marroquin.
Former Co-Chair of the Latin American Council of the International Section of the New York State Bar Association, from 2020 to 2023.
Before joining BLP, he was the founding partner of the law firm Arias in Guatemala.
Languages
Spanish, English