CEO / Managing Partner

Areas of Experience

Corporate / Transactional Foreign Investments / Joint Ventures / M&As Aviation & Maritime - Transactional Energy / Mining / Petroleum Foundations /Trusts / Taxation Family Offices

Representative Experience

Merger of airline companies Corporate restructuring of major Middle East group with multinational operations Gold mining exploration joint ventures for Canadian and Panamanian groups Multiple hydroelectric projects with transactional matters for US group Corporate legal opinions for European bank International tender offer and corporate work for French solar power company Set up of Multi-Family Office for European group. Structuring of multiple trust and foundations for Cyprus/Russian group

Awards & Recognition

Aviation & Banking - Dr. Juan Francisco Pardini by Legal 500 Latin America 2024 Private Client 2023 – Dr. Juan F. Pardini by Lexology Getting the Deal Through Private Client 2023 - Dr. Juan F. Pardini by Who's Who Legal Central America - Environment, Energy & Natural Resources 2023 - Dr. Juan F. Pardini by Who's Who Legal Global Leader - Mining 2023 - Dr. Juan F. Pardini by Who's Who Legal Financial and Corporate 2023 by IFLR1000 Law Firm of the Year - Corporate and Litigation – Panama 2023 by Global 100

Ambassador of Panama for Trade Matters 1993-95 Honorary Consul of Malaysia to Panama

Panama Bar Association Panama – Canada Chamber of Commerce (President 2005-2017) American Chamber of Commerce of Panama (President 1995-1996) Panama Council for Investment & Development of Panama (Chairman 1995-2004) New York State Bar Association, Co-Chairman, Panama Chapter. US-Panama Business Council (Co-Founder and former member, Board of Directors) Japan-Panama Friendship Association (former member, Board of Directors) American Bar Association, Chairman, Energy & Natural Resources Committee, ABA (2000-2003) Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners (STEP)

University of Panama (Licenciate in Law and Political Sciences, 1977). Tulane University (LL.M., 1978). University of Madrid, PhD studies (1980).