Khatiya has more than a decade of experience, providing legal advice to local and international clients on Administrative Law, Commercial, Special Economic Zones, Telecommunications and IT.

She has guided Fortune 500 companies in the apparel, telecommunications and construction industries to set up operations in Panama. Khatiya also advises regularly in commercial transactions and real estate matters.

Khatiya has participated in high level corporate and financial transactions, including one of the most complex corporate restructuring cases in Latin America, in which Patton, Moreno & Asvat  provided the necessary legal platform to safeguard the operational continuity of one of Panama's most emblematic retail companies, and preventing the costliest bankruptcy proceeding ever to be initiated in Panama.

Spanish and English

Panama Bar Association

International Bar Association IBA)

International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) - Panama Chapter, Tax Committee

Harvard Club of Panama (Secretary 2013 – 2015 / President 2019-2020)

Advisory Board of King's College

Graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Universidad Santa Maria La Antigua (LL.B, 2007) and obtained an LLM Degree at Harvard Law School, Cambridge Massachusetts (2008). She studied at the International Law Institute - Washington 2007, on the Orientation of the Legal System of the United States of America.  Khatiya is admitted to the Panama Bar (2007) and the New York Bar (2009). Licensed as Real Estate broker