Region Area

Lawyers

Ernesto B. Arias M.

Ernesto B. Arias M.

Work Department

SUCRE | ARIAS | REYES

Position

Partner

Career

Practices since 1977. He is in charge of the Insurance and Reinsurance Department, where he has worked with the most important main insurance companies, reinsurers,   local and foreign reinsurance brokers in the process of obtaining operation or registration licenses from the Superintendencia de Seguros y Reaseguros de Panamá (Superintendence of Insurance and Reinsurance of Panama), responsible for issuing opinions regarding insurance, reinsurance and bonds, as well as the coordination in such cases with the Litigation Department. Together with the team lawyers of the Insurance and Reinsurance Department, he participates and supervises the drafting of policies and bonds, compensation agreements and documents related to the scope of the insurance industry. He is also the Finance Department coordinator of the firm.

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

-Colegio Nacional de Abogados de Panamá

-American Bar Association

-International Bar Association (IBA).

Education

-Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua, Panamá (Bachelor of Law and Political Science, Cum Laude, 1976).

-Tulane University (Master in Civil Law, 1977).